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Period: 827 to 839
SANOX KING
HE IS RECOGNISED BY THE TITLE BRETWALDA -
Period: 839 to 858
AETHELWULF
AETHELSTAN FOUGHT AND DELACTED A VIKING FLEET OFF THE COAST OF KENT -
Period: 858 to 860
AETHELBALD
HE WAS CROWNED AT KINGSTON TON-UPON-THAMOS IN SOUTHWEST LONDON -
Period: 860 to 866
AETHELBERT
BECAME KING FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF HIS BROTHER -
Period: 866 to 871
AETHERED I
HE DIED OF HIS WOUNDS SHORTLY AFFTER AT WITCHAMPTOM IN DARSET , WHERE HE WAS BURIED -
Period: 871 to 899
ALFRED THE GREAT
ALFRED WAS WELL EDUCATED AND IS SAUD TO HAVE VISITED ROME -
Period: 899 to 924
EDWARD
EDWARD WAS KILLED IN A BATTLE AGAINST WEISH NEAR CHESTER -
Period: 924 to 939
AETHELSTAN
In what is said to be one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on British soil -
Period: 939 to 946
EDMUND
AGED JUST 25 AND WHILST THE FEAST OF AUGUSTINE , EDMUND WAS STABBED BY A ROBBERIN HIS ROYAL HALL AT PUCKLECHURCH NEAR BATH -
Period: 946 to 955
EADRED
A deeply religious man, Eadred suffered a serious stomach ailment that would eventually prove fatal. Eadred died in his early 30s, unmarried and without an heir -
Period: 955 to 959
EADWING
Eadwig died in Gloucester when he was just 20, the circumstances of his death are not recorded. -
Period: 959 to 975
EDGAR
The youngest son of Edmund I, Edgar had been in dispute with his brother concerning succession to the throne for some years. -
Period: 975 to 978
EDWARD THE MARTIYR
Eldest son of Edgar, Edward was crowned king when aged just 12.
Edward’s short reign ended when he was murdered at Corfe Castle by followers of Aethelred, -
Period: 978 to 1016
AETHELRED II THE UNREAD
He became king aged about 10
He died just 5 weeks later. -
Period: 1016 to 1035
CANUTE ( NUT THE GREAT )
Canute became king of all England following the death of Edmund II.
legend has it that he wanted to demonstrate to his subjects that as a king he was not a god, he ordered the tide not to come in, knowing this would fail. -
Period: 1016 to 1016
EDMUND II IRONSIDE
Following the death of his father, he was chosen king by the good folk of London
It also stated that when one of the kings died the other would take all of England… Edmund died later that year, probably assassinated. -
Period: 1035 to 1040
HAROLD
Harold died three years into his reign, just weeks before Harthacanute was due to invade England with an army of Danes -
Period: 1040 to 1042
TATHACANUTE
Harthacanute died at a wedding whilst toasting the health of the bride; he was aged just 24 and was the last Danish king to rule England -
Period: 1042 to 1066
EDWARDTHE CONFESSOR
Edward died childless, eight days after the building work on Westminster Abbey had finished. With no natural successor, England was faced with a power struggle for control of the throne. -
Period: 1066 to 1060
HAROLD II
Despite having no royal bloodline, Harold Godwin was elected king by the Witan -
Period: 1066 to 1087
WILLIAM I(The Conqueror)
he was the illegitimate son of Robert the Devil, whom he succeeded as Duke of Normandy in 1035
William died at Rouen after a fall from his horse whilst besieging the French city of Nantes. He is buried at Caen. -
Period: 1087 to 1100
WILLIAM II (Rufus)
William was not a popular king,
He never married and was killed in the New Forest by a stray arrow whilst out hunting -
Period: 1100 to 1135
HENRY I
Henry Beauclerc was the fourth and youngest son of William I
When Henry died of food poisoning, -
Period: 1135 to 1154
STEPHEN
Stephen was a very weak king -
Period: 1154 to 1189
HENRY II
Henry of Anjou was a strong king
His sons turned against him, even his favourite John. -
Period: 1189 to 1199
RICHARD I (The Lionheart)
Richard was the third son of Henry II. By the age of 16, he was leading his own army putting down rebellions in France
. On his way back from Palestine, Richard was captured and held for ransom. -
Period: 1199 to 1216
JOHN 1199 -1216
John Lackland was the fourth child of Henry II. Short and fat, he was jealous of his dashing brother Richard I
He was cruel, selfish and avaricious
He has been termed “the worst English king”. -
Period: 1216 to 1272
HENRY III
Henry was 9 years old when he became king. Brought up by priests he became devoted to church, art and learning.
Henry was the greatest of all patrons of medieval architecture -
Period: 1272 to 1307
EDWARD I
He was known as the ‘Hammer of the Scots’ for his victories in Scotland and brought the famous coronation stone from Scone to Westminster. When his first wife Eleanor died, he escorted her body from Grantham in Lincolnshire to Westminster, setting up Eleanor Crosses at every resting place. He died on the way to fight Robert Bruce. -
Period: 1307 to 1327
EDWARD II
he was murdered in Berkley Castle
His beautiful tomb in Gloucester Cathedral was erected by his son, Edward III. -
Period: 1327 to 1377
EDWARD III
Son of Edward II, he reigned for 50 years. His ambition to conquer Scotland and France plunged England into the Hundred Years War -
Period: 1377 to 1399
RICHARD II
Richard was murdered, probably by starvation, in Pontefract Castle in 1400. -
Period: 1399 to 1413
HENRY IV
Henry, the first Lancastrian king, died exhausted, probably of leprosy, at the age of 45. -
Period: 1413 to 1422
HENRY V
Had been knighted when aged just 12.
Henry died of dysentery whilst campaigning in France and before he could succeed to the French throne, leaving his 10-month old son as King of England and France. -
Period: 1422 to 1461
HENRY VI
Gentle and retiring, he came to the throne as a baby and inherited a losing war with France
. The king had an attack of mental illness that was hereditary in his mother’s family in 1454 and Richard Duke of York was made Protector of the Realm. -
Period: 1461 to 1483
EDWARD IV
He was the son of Richard Duke of York and Cicely Neville, and not a popular king.
Edward died suddenly in 1483 leaving two sons aged 12 and 9, and five daughters. -
Period: 1483 to 1485
RICHARD III
Richard was defeated and killed in what was to be the last important battle in the Wars of the Roses. -
Period: 1483 to 1483
EDWARD V
The eldest son of Edward IV, he succeeded to the throne at the tender age of 13 and reigned for only two months, the shortest-lived monarch in English history. -
Period: 1485 to 1509
HENRY VII
When Richard III fell at the Battle of Bosworth, his crown was picked up and placed on the head of Henry Tudor
The material wealth of the country increased greatly. -
Period: 1509 to 1547
HENRY VIII
His first wife was Catherine of Aragon, his brothers widow,
The best known fact about Henry VIII is that he had six wives! -
Period: 1547 to 1553
EDWARD VI
Edward succeeded his father at the age of 9
it is thought he suffered from tuberculosis -
Period: 1553 to 1558
MARY I (Bloody Mary)
Daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.
. The country was plunged into a bitter blood bath, which is why she is remembered as Bloody Mary. She died in 1558 at Lambeth Palace in London. -
Period: 1558 to
ELIZABETH I
Elizabeth never married. -
Period: to
JAMES I and VI of Scotland
He was the first king to rule over Scotland and England. -
Period: to
CHARLES 1
The House of Commons tried Charles for treason against England and when found guilty he was condemned to death. His death warrant states that he was beheaded on 30th January 1649. Following this the British monarchy was abolished and a republic -
Period: to
OLIVER CROMWELL, Lord Protector
Cromwell was born at Huntingdon -
Period: to
RICHARD CROMWELL,
Richard was the third son of Oliver Cromwell, he was appointed the second ruling Lord Protector of England -
Period: to
CHARLES II
Son of Charles I, also known as the Merry Monarch
The Great Plague in 1665 and the Great Fire of London in 1666 took place during his reign. -
Period: to
JAMES II and VII of Scotland
The second surviving son of Charles I and younger brother of Charles II -
Period: to
WILLIAM III – and MARY II
William and Mary were to reign jointly, and William was to have the Crown for life after Mary died in 1694. -
Period: to
ANNE
Anne was the second daughter of James II. She had 17 pregnancies but only one child survived – William, who died of smallpox aged just 11. -
Period: to
GEORGE I
Son of Sophia and the Elector of Hanover, great-grandson of James I. The 54 year old George arrived in England able to speak only a few words of English with his 18 cooks and 2 mistresses in tow. George never learned English -
Period: to
GEORGE II
Only son of George I. He was more English than his father, but still relied on Sir Robert Walpole to run the country -
Period: to
GEORGE III
He was a grandson of George II and the first English-born and English-speaking monarch since Queen Anne. His reign was one of elegance and the age of some of the greatest names in English literature – Jane Austen -
Period: to
GEORGE IV
Known as the ‘First Gentleman of Europe’. He had a love of art and architecture but his private life was a mess, to put it mildly! He married twice, -
Period: to
WILLIAM IV
Known as the ‘Sailor King
When Princess Charlotte died, he had to marry in order to secure the succession -
Period: to
VICTORIA
The throne Victoria inherited was weak and unpopula
When Victoria died in 1901, the British Empire and British world power had reached their highest point. She had nine children, 40 grand-children and 37 great-grandchildren, scattered all over Europe. -
Period: to
EDWARD VII
A much loved king, the opposite of his dour father
Edward Duke of Clarence, died in 1892 just before he was to marry Princess Mary of Teck. -
Period: to
GEORGE V
George had not expected to be king, but when his elder brother died he became the heir-apparent -
Period: to
EDWARD VIII
Edward was the most popular Prince of Wales Britain has ever had
Edward abdicated in favour of his brother and took the title, Duke of Windsor. He went to live abroad. -
Period: to
GEORGE VI
George was a shy and nervous man with a very bad stutter, the exact opposite of his brother the Duke of Windsor
He was very popular and well loved by the British people -
Period: to
ELIZABETH II
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, or ‘Lilibet’ to close family, was born in London on 21 April 1926. Like her parents, Elizabeth was heavily involved in the war effort during the Second World War, serving in the women’s branch of the British Army known as the Auxiliary Territorial Service. -
Period: to
King Charles III
Charles succeeded to throne at the age of 73, taking the title King Charles III