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 Britons of Strathclyde - English Monarchs
Strathclyde or Ystrad Clud (beautiful Estuary) was a kingdom of the Britons, or brythonic celts in the Hen Ogledd, in what is now Northern England and southern Scotland, through the post-Roman and medieval eras. The original occupants of the area were a Celtic tribe known as the Damnonii. The Scots ...
Royal Residences and Ecclesiastical Sites - English Monarchs
Royal Residences of the Kings and Queens of England. Royal Residences and Historic Buildings. There are many royal residences in the United Kingdom, some of these, such as Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, are owned by the Crown, while others like Balmoral Castle and Sandringham House are personally owned.
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 …
Edmund I the Elder, Saxon King of England - English Monarchs
King of England. Edmund 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 succeeded Athelstan on England's ...
England's first Stuart monarch, James I & VI - English Monarchs
1603-1625. 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.
Edward I, son of Henry III and Eleanor - English Monarchs
The Second Baron's War. The civil war known as the Second Barons' War broke out in England in 1264, rebel barons led by Henry's French-born brother-in-law, Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, fought against forces loyal to King Henry III.Montfort wanted to reassert the terms of the Magna Carta and force the king to surrender more power to the baronial council.
Egbert, or Ecgbehrt, the first King of all England - English Monarchs
Egbert, in Old English Ecgbehrt, the first King of all England, was born around 770-780. He was the son of Ealhmund, King of Kent, who is mentioned in a charter of 784. Ealhmund was himself the son of Eafa, King of Wessex, by a Kentish princess. The House of Wessex boasted of a descent from no less ...
The Tower of London - English Monarchs
The Tower in the Stuart Era. The interrogations of the notorious Gunpowder Plot prisoners took place at the Tower of London in 1605. Guy Fawkes, a Catholic Yorkshire man, headed a plot to blow up King James I, and the Houses of Parliament.
The Legend of Robin Hood - English Monarchs
Sherwood Forest became a royal hunting forest after the Norman conquest of 1066, the Domesday Book in 1086 recorded that Sherwood Forest covered most of Nottinghamshire above the River Trent and was popular with many of the Plantagenet kings, particularly King John and Edward I.The ruins of King John's hunting lodge is still visible near the village of Kings Clipstone in Nottinghamshire.