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 ...
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. Its founder, the Lancastrian Henry VII laid down the foundations of his dynasty, brought an end to the civil strife …
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).
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 …
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 ...
A History of Buckingham Palace - English Monarchs
Buckingham Palace has been the official residence of seven generations of British monarchs from the House of Hanover to the present reigning House of Windsor. The palace is now open to the public on a regular basis. The original Buckingham House, as it …
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.
A history of the Princes of Wales - English Monarchs
On the death of his father he was declared 'James III' and recognised as such by Louis XIV of France. He married a Polish Princess, Maria Clementina Sobieski (1667-1737) daughter of James Louis Sobieski, the eldest son of King John III, and Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg on 3 Sept 1719, by whom he had issue, Charles Edward Stuart, otherwise known as 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' and ...
A history of King Alfred the Great - English Monarchs
It seems to have been one of the precious 'æstels' or staffs that Alfred is recorded as having sent to each bishopric along with a copy of his translation of Pope Gregory the Great's book Pastoral Care, saying in his preface to the book-"And I will send a copy to every bishop's see in my kingdom, and in each book there is an aestel of 50 mancusses and I …
The House of Stuart - History of the Stuart kings and Queens
Stuart Kings and Queens. The Stuarts, that highly romantic but luckless dynasty, succeeded to the English throne on the death of the childless Tudor Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, in the person of James I and VI (1603-1625), son of Mary Queen of Scots and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, became the first joint ruler of the kingdoms of both England and Scotland.