English Monarchs - History of the kings and Queens of England
WEBSaxons. 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 ...
Edmund I the Elder, Saxon King of England - English Monarchs
WEBEdmund I, known as 'the Elder' or the Magnificent, was born circa 921, the son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife Edgiva. As a sixteen year old, he had fought with distinction beside his elder half-brother, King Athelstan, at the Battle of Brunanburh against a combined force of Scots and Vikings. Edmund was around eighteen when he ...
England's first Stuart monarch, James I & VI - English Monarchs
WEB1603-1625. Early Years. England's first Stuart monarch, James I & VI, the son of that ill-matched pair, Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was born at Edinburgh Castle after a difficult and protracted labour on 19th June 1566.Elizabeth I stood as godmother by proxy at his Catholic baptism when he was given the names James Charles.
Historic Battles of the Kings and Queens - English Monarchs
WEBThe Battle of Brunanburh - 937. The Battle of Brunanburh, fought in 937 and one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on British soil, was a great Anglo-Saxon victory for a combined Anglo-Saxon army from Mercia and Wessex led by Athelstan, King of England, (the grandson of Alfred the Great) and his brother Edmund over the allied forces of Olaf III Guthfrithson, the Norse-Gael King of Dublin ...
A history of Henry II - English Monarchs
WEBKing of England. Arguably one of the most effective Kings ever to wear the English crown and the first of the great Plantagenet dynasty, the future Henry II was born at Le Mans, Anjou on 5th March, 1133. He was the son of that ill-matched pair, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou and Matilda, (known as the Empress, from her first marriage to ...
Stirling Castle, Scotland - English Monarchs
WEBStirling Castle Interior. Mary Queen of Scots spent the early part of her childhood at the castle from 27 July 1543 to February 1548, when she was moved to Dumbarton Castle and eventually left for France. Mary's coronation took place in the Chapel Royal at Stirling in 1543. Following the death of her first husband, Francois II of France, Mary returned to her native Scotland in 1561, and ...
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector - English Monarchs
WEBLord Protector. 1599 - 1658. Oliver Cromwell was born at Huntingdon, into the ranks of the English gentry on 25th April 1599, during the latter years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, he was the son of Robert and Elizabeth Cromwell (nee Steward). Oliver was distantly related to Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's minister, his father being descended ...
Leeds Castle and Six Medieval Queens - English Monarchs
WEBMaidstone, Kent. Home to medieval Kings and Queens of England, Leeds Castle is situated on the River Len, 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Maidstone in Kent. Ledian or Leed, a minister of Ethelbert IV, the Anglo-Saxon King of Kent, built a wooden structure on two islands in the middle of the River Len in 857, the castle was rebuilt in stone in 1119 ...
Elizabeth I, one of England's greatest sovereigns - English Monarchs
WEB1558-1603. Early Life. Undoubtedly one of England's greatest sovereigns and the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I was born at Greenwich on 7th September 1533, the only surviving child of Henry VIII by his second wife Anne Boleyn.Her parents had hoped for a son, Henry VIII spent the last days of his wife's confinement deliberating whether to …
The House of Hanover - History of the Saxon kings and Queens
WEBThe House of Hanover, a cadet branch of the German House of Welf or Guelph, itself a branch of the House of Este, whose oldest traceable members resided in Lombardy in the Dark Ages, produced five of Britain's monarchs. On the death of William IV (1765-1837), the last Hanoverian king, Hanover and England ceased to share a ruler, Victoria (1837 ...