English Monarchs - History of the kings and Queens of England
Saxons. The Anglo-Saxon kings, included Alfred the Great, the ineffectual Ethelred the Redeless (978-1016) and his pious son, Edward the Confessor (1042-1066) who was later canonized in 1161. The Anglo-Saxon line was interrupted for two decades by Viking conquerors but was re-established by Edward the Confessor.The Confessor is said to have willed his throne to his brother-in-law, King Harold ...
Uhtred the Bold, ealdorman of Northumbria - English Monarchs
Ethelred II arranged that the treacherous Edric Streona would murder of ealdorman Ælfhelm of York, 'The crafty and treacherous Eadric Streona, plotting to deceive the noble Ealdorman Ælfhelm, prepared a great feast for him at Shrewsbury at which, when he came as a guest, Eadric greeted him as if he were an intimate friend.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - English Monarchs
King Alfred the Great. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle began to be compiled in around 890 A.D., at the command of King Alfred the Great (871- 899) and consists of a series of annals written in the Old English language.. Alfred ordered that copies be made of the original manuscripts and distributed to monasteries across the length and breadth of …
The House of Tudor - History of the Tudor kings and Queens
The House of Tudor took England's throne through victory over Richard III, the last Plantagenet king, at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
A History of Buckingham Palace - English Monarchs
George VI, the present Queen's father, referred to the palace as "the icebox".During the Second World War, Buckingham Palace was hit by German bombers nine times, leading Queen Elizabeth to state "Now I can look the East End in the face."
Lancaster - History of the Lancaster kings and Queens - English …
The House of Lancaster. The House of Lancaster, a branch of the Plantagenet family, descended from John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the third surviving son of King Edward III, produced 3 Kings of England- Henry IV (1367 -1413), Henry V (1386 - 1422) and Henry VI (1421 - 1471).
Saxon - History of the Saxon kings and Queens - English Monarchs
The House of Wessex. Eighth century England consisted of seven Anglo-Saxon sub-kingdoms that existed in a state of internecine warfare. Occasionally a king of one of the larger three kingdoms, Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria, would emerge from the dynastic turmoil to be accepted as Bretwalda (Bretanwealda in Old English) or overlord by the others.
Edward I, son of Henry III and Eleanor - English Monarchs
The King remarried at the age of 60, he chose as his second wife the seventeen-year-old Margaret of France, the daughter of Phillip III, King of France and Maria of Brabant, their wedding was celebrated at Canterbury on 8th September 1299.Their first child, a son, Thomas of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, was born within a year of the marriage and was followed by a further son, Edmund of ...
The Britons of Strathclyde - English Monarchs
A few Cumbric words survived into the High Middle Ages in South West Scotland as legal terms in the Leges inter Brettos et Scottos ("Laws of the Britons and Scots") such as -galnes, galnys ('blood-fine'), kelchyn ('circuit'), mercheta ('marriage fee').
A history of Henry II - English Monarchs
Henry's father Geoffrey's nickname derived from a sprig of bloom, or Planta Genista, that he liked to sport in his helmet. Thus was coined the surname of one of England's greatest dynasties, which ruled the country for the rest of the medieval era, although Plantagenet was not adopted as a surname until the mid-fifteenth century.