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871-1016 Saxon
1013-1042 Danish
1042-1066 Saxon Restoration
1066-1154 House of Normandy
1154-1399 House of Plantagenet
1399-1471 House of Lancaster
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Saxon Kings   (871-1016)
871-899
Alfred the Great
899-924
Edward the Elder
924-939
Athelstan
939-946
Edmund I
946-955
Edred
955-959
Edwy

The elder of the two sons of King Edmund I. Elected king by the witangamot after the death of his uncle Edred, his short reign was marked by conflicts with his family, the thanes, and particularly the Church under the leadership of St Dunstan and Archbishop Odo. In 957, Mercia and Northumberland revolted in favour of his younger brother Edgar and England was partitioned along the river Thames, Edwy ruling the south, Edgar the north.

959-975
Edgar   the Peacable

The younger of two sons of King Edmund I, in 957 the thanes of Mercia and Northumberland rose against his elder brother King Edwy supported by Archbishop Odo and the party of the exiled Dunstan. England was partitioned along the river Thames, Edwy ruling the south, Edgar the north until Edwy's death when Edgar became king of all England, recalled Dunstan from exile and both embarked on a policy of monastic resurgence.

975-978
Edward the Martyr

His election opposed by his step-mother, Queen Elfrida, in favour of her own son Ethelred, she had the boy-king, aged only sixteen, murdered while hunting.

978-1013 and 1014-1016
Ethelred II   the Unready

Aged only seven when he became king, his unhappy reign was a series of battles with the invading Danes.

1016
Edmund II   Ironside

His ferocity and courage in battling the Danish invaders earned him the surname 'Ironside' and the country was partitioned between himself (April 23rd to his death on November 30th) and Canute.

Danish Kings   (1013-1042)
1013-1014
Sweyn Haraldsson   Forkbeard
King of Denmark (985-1014), made many determined attemtps to conquer Ethelred's England after 1003 but ruled for only the last five weeks of his life (Dec 25th to Feb 2nd)
1014-1035
Cnut or Canute I ( the Great)
1035-1040
Harold I
1040-1042
Canute II

Kings of the Saxon Restoration   (1042-1066)
1042-1066
Edward the Confessor
1066
Harold II
Was claimed to have done homage to William, Duke of Normandy as the Confessor's heir but was elected king by the Witan and killed at the Battle of Hastings by William's army.
1066
Edgar �theling
Never crowned

House of Normandy   (1066-1154)
1066-1087
William I   the Conqueror
Duke of Normandy, William usurped the Crown by conquest. Under his reign, feudalism in England reached the height of its development and his Domesday Survey of the country for taxation provides the first written record of many places in England.
1087-1100
William II   Rufus
Known for his short temper, Rufus was killed in an hunting accident in the New Forest.
1100-1135
Henry I
Brought the magnates under control by appointing his own itinerant justices to administer the king's law in the shires and established the foundations of the modern Exchequer.
1135-1154
Stephen
Took the throne with the support of most of the magnates on the death of Henry I without any legitimate male heir. The country was thrown into a civil war between the king and Henry's daughter Matilda lasting nearly twenty years known as The Anarchy.

House of Plantagenet
1154-1189
Henry II
Henry held more of France than the king of France himself before becomming king of England which he restored to order following the twenty years of civil war known as The Anarchy of Stephen's reign. His French possessions would involve all the Plantagenet kings in dispute over the French territories.
1189-1199
Richard I
Brought up in France, the Lion Heart spent only six months in England being preoccupied with the third crusade.
1199-1216
John
Although able, he became nortorious for his misrule which resulted in the barons and Church forcing him to grant the Magna Carta, the Great Charter of liberties to avert civil war in 1215.
1216-1272
Henry III
1272-1307
Edward I   Longshanks
1307-1327
Edward II
1327-1377
Edward III
1377-1399
Richard II
Deposed by Henry, Duke of Lancaster.

House of Lancaster
1399-1413
Henry IV
Deposed Richard II.
1413-1422
Henry V
1422-1461 and 1470-1471
Henry VI

House of York
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House of Tudor
1485-1509
Henry VII

Seized the throne for the Lancastrians by conquest, although he legitimised his claim to the crown by descent from John of Gaunt.

1509-1547
Henry VIII

Despite Catherine of Aragon producing six children, only Mary survived. Henry's divorce resulted in a split with the Roman Catholic Church and the search for a male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty, five more royal brides. Already left a considerable fortune in the royal treasury by his father, his dissolution of the monasteries made him the richest king in Christendom.

1547-1553
Edward VI

1553-1558
Mary I

1558-1603
Elizabeth I

House of Stuart
1603-1625
James I

1625-1649
Charles I

The king's belief in the Divine Right of Kings to rule unhindered and the poverty which caused him to attempt to raise taxes without Parliament threw the country into a Civil War which he lost and resulted in his execution and the abolition of the monarchy.

Commonwealth or Interregnum
1649-1660
Commonwealth or Interregnum

After the execution of Charles I in January 1649 which followed the Civil War, parliament ruled alone with England a republic known as the Commonwealth (sometimes also known a the "Interregnum"). The experiments in government by parliament alone failed and Oliver Cromwell effectively became a military dictator. Soon after his death, the son of the executed king was invited to take the throne as Charles II.

House of Stuart Restored
1660-1685
Charles II

Following the Puritan austerity of the Commonwealth, the Restoration of the monarchy and the old way of life was greeted with great joy throughout the country.

1685-1688
James II

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1701The Protestant Hanoverian Succession in England established by the Act of Settlement
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