Monarchs of England
Submitted by Martin1983 on Tue, 01/25/2005 - 11:18
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- (871-899) Alfred the Great
- (899-924) Edward the Elder
- (924-924) Ethelweard
- (924-939) Athelstan
- (939-946) Edmund I
- (946-955) Edred
- (955-959) Edwy
- (959-975) Edgar
- (975-978) Edward the Martyr
- (978-1016) Ethelred II (The Unready)
- (1013-1014) Sweyn
- (1014-1016) Ethelred II
- (1016-1016) Edmund II
- (1016-1035) Canute
- (1035-1040) Harold I
- (1040-1042) Hardecanute
- (1042-1066) Edward the Confessor
- (1066-1066) Harold II
- (1066-1066) Edgar
- (1066-1087) William I
- (1087-1100) William II
- (1100-1135) Henry I
- (1135-1154) Stephen
- (1154-1189) Henry II
- (1189-1199) Richard I
- (1199-1216) John
- (1216-1272) Henry III
- (1272-1307) Edward I
- (1307-1327) Edward II
- (1327-1377) Edward III
- (1377-1399) Richard II
- (1399-1413) Henry IV
- (1413-1422) Henry V
- (1422-1461) Henry VI
- (1461-1483) Edward IV
- (1483-1483) Edward V
- (1483-1485) Richard III
- (1485-1509) Henry VII
- (1509-1547) Henry VIII
- (1547-1553) Edward VI
- (1553-1553) Lady Jane Grey
- (1553-1558) Mary I
- (1558-1603) Elizabeth I
- (1603-1625) James I
- (1625-1649) Charles I
- (1649-1660) ----The Commonwealth----
- (1660-1685) Charles II
- (1685-1689) James II
- (1689-1702) William III & Mary II
- (1702-1714) Anne
- (1714-1727) George I
- (1727-1760) George II
- (1760-1820) George III
- (1820-1830) George IV
- (1830-1837) William IV
- (1837-1901) Victoria
- (1901-1910) Edward VII
- (1910-1936) George V
- (1936-1936) Edward VIII
- (1936-1952) George VI
- (1952-?) Elizabeth II
How do you tell them apart? They all look alike to me.
Well, they have different numbers, plus, I studied the Normans, Saxons, Tudors, Stuarts, Plantagenets, Hanoverians, Victorians, etc in History at school.
I read Churchill's History of Britain, volume 1. That helps a bit, but they tend to run together in my head.
No problem - they're never in the same room together.
LOL. Nice one.
It's a pity so little is known throughout Britain about Welsh, Scottish + Irish rulers too. Hywel Dda for instance was a great enlightened Welsh law-maker; Wales was set back by the English conquest. And i have a feeling there's one missing, mentioned in a series by Terry Jones as having reigned briefly, who always gets left out, but i can't remember his name- very frustrating. I don't mean Lady Jane Grey who was Queen for 9 days in 1553. We had to learn the dates of them all up to the Civil War at school when i was 7! That and battles (almost always victories of course). I reckon Henry VII is the most underrated, Elizabeth I the greatest. But most of them have been loons, goons, vicious murderers and buffoons.