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The Seven Kingdoms is a nation made up of seven regions of Westeros that were once independent kingdoms. They are ruled by a king who sits on the Iron Throne of the Red Keep, located in King's Landing, the capital of the kingdom.

The Saxons participated in the Germanic settlement of Britain during and after the 5th century. It is not known how many migrated from the mainland to Britain, although estimates are made of a total number of Germanic settlers between 10,000 and 200,000, who settled in the eastern regions, while the Bretons or Britons controlled the rest, settling in these areas as farmers.

also called Ælfred, from Anglo-Saxon: Ælfrēd (849-October 26, 899) or Saint Alfred the Great, was King of Wessex from 871 until his death. He became famous for defending his kingdom against the Vikings, becoming the only king of his dynasty to be called The Great as a result. He was also the first King of Wessex to proclaim himself King of the Anglo-Saxons. A cultured and literate man, he greatly helped in education and in improving the law system of his kingdom.

William I of England, September 9, 1087), better known as William the Conqueror, was the first king of England of Norman origin, with a reign that lasted from 1066 until his death in 1087. Descendant of Vikings, from 1035 he was Duke of Normandy under the name of William II. After a long struggle to secure his power, by 1060 his rule over Normandy was consolidated and for this reason he began to plan the conquest of England, which began in 1066.

The Theban Romance is a poem of some 10,000 lines composed around 1150 that is supposed to have been inspired, not by Statius's Thebaid, but by a summary of that work. This thesis is confirmed by the numerous omissions of facts and details which, despite the very different conditions in which the poem was composed, would have been preserved in any imitation of the Thebaid.

The House of Plantagenet was the reigning dynasty in England from 1154 to 1399. After the last Plantagenet was forced to abdicate, the crown passed to two secondary branches of the dynasty. The dynasty finally ended in 1485 with the death of Richard III, beginning the rule of the House of Tudor.
The dynasty has its origin in France, more precisely in the county of Anjou. In 1127, Geoffrey V of Anjou married Matilda, the only daughter of King Henry I of England.

House of Lancaster was the name of two minor branches of the House of Plantagenet. The first branch was created when Henry III of England created the County of Lancaster - from which the house takes its name - for his second son Edmund of Lancaster in 1267. Edmund was already Earl of Leicester in 1265, when he was granted the lands and the privileges of Simon de Montfort.

It was an armed conflict between the kingdoms of France and England that lasted 116 years (May 24, 1337 – October 19, 1453). The conflict was feudal in origin, as its purpose was to resolve who would control the additional lands that the English monarchs had accumulated since 1154 in French territories, since Henry II ascended to the throne of England. The war ended with the defeat of England and the consequent withdrawal of English troops from French lands.

It was a civil war that intermittently pitted members and supporters of the House of Lancaster against those of the House of York between 1455 and 1487. Both families claimed the throne of England, by common origin in the House of Plantagenet, as descendants of the king Edward III. The name "War of the Two Roses" or "War of the Roses", alluding to the emblems of both houses, the white rose of York and the red of Lancaster, was a product of Romanticism.

Henry VIII was King of England and Lord of Ireland from April 22, 1509 until his death. He married six times and exercised the most absolute power among all the English monarchs. The most notable events of his reign include the break with the Roman Catholic Church and the establishment of the monarch as supreme head of the Church of England (Anglican Church), the dissolution of the monasteries and the union of England with Wales.

She was queen of England and Ireland from November 17, 1558 until the day of her death. Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. The daughter of Henry VIII, she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed when she was three years old, with which Elizabeth was declared an illegitimate child. However, after the death of her brothers Edward VI and Mary I, Elizabeth assumed the throne.

is the term used to refer to the armed conflicts and political machinations that took place between royalists and parliamentarians from 1642 to 1651, and particularly to the first (1642-1645) and second (1648-1649) civil wars between the followers of King Charles I of England and those who supported Parliament and the unsuccessful campaign undertaken by Charles II of England, which ended with his defeat at the Battle of Worcester on September 3, 1651.

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Anglo Saxons

alfred the great

Wiliams

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House of Plantagenets

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The hundred years war

The war of the roses

Henry VIII

Isabel I

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