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Back to Britain Photo & History Pages
English Kings and Queens from 802 AD to the present*
Books & DVDs about England in the Middle Ages For burial places more generally see: www.findagrave.com
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| 775-802-839 (64) |
Egbert (King of Wessex) |
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?-839-856 |
Ethelwulf |
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?-856-860 |
Ethelbald |
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| ?-860-866 |
Ethelbert |
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?-866-871 |
Ethelred I |
Wimborne Minster (Dorset) (but tomb location unknown) |
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| 849-871-899 (50) |
The only English King to be remembered as "The Great" |
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| 870-899-925 (55) |
Edward the Elder (first King of "all" England ex Northumbria) |
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| 895-925-939 (44) |
Athelstan (became King of Britain by taking over Northumbria) |
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| 922-939-946 (24) |
Edmund I the Elder |
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?-946-955 |
Eadred |
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?-955-959 |
Eadwig |
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944-959-975 (31) |
Edgar |
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963-975-978 (15) |
Edward the Martyr |
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968-978-1016 (48) |
whose Archbishop of Canterbury - Sigeric "The Serious" - left a record of his journey home along the via Francigena from Rome where he had gone to visit the Pope. |
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980-1016-1016 (36) |
Edmund II Ironside |
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Danish Kings |
c995-1016-1035 (40) |
Cnut (Canute) |
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?-1035-1040 |
Harold I (Harefoot) |
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1019-1040-1042 (23) |
Hardecanute |
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Saxon Restoration |
c1004-1042-1066 (62) |
Edward the Confessor England's only Sainted king and her first Patron Saint (before the foreigner Saint George took over in 1350). |
(Shrine) |
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1022-1066-1066 (44) |
Harold II (Godwinson) |
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1027-1066-1087 (50) |
William I the Conqueror |
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1059-1087-1100 (41) |
William II Rufus |
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1068-1100-1135 (67) |
Henry I (Beauclerc) |
Reading Abbey |
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1097-1135-1154 (57) |
Stephen |
Faversham Abbey |
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Map of Plantagenet Europe 1160s
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1133-1154-1189 (56) |
Henry II (m Eleanor of Aquitaine) The first Plantagenet King. Thomas Becket murdered in Canterbury Cathedral 29 December 1170. |
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| 1157-1189-1199 (42) |
Richard I ("Coeur de Lion") |
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| 1207-1216-1272 (65) |
Henry III (m Eleanor of Provence) |
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| 1239-1272-1307 (68) |
Edward I ("Longshanks") (m Eleanor of Castile) |
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| 1284-1307-1327 (43) |
Edward II |
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| 1312-1327-1377 (65) |
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| 1362 - English replaces French as the official language of the law courts of England | ||||
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1330 - 1376 (46) |
Edward (The Black Prince) - world class pillager who lived through the black death but ended up dying a year before his dad Edward III, so he never became King. |
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| 1367-1377-1399 (33) |
Richard II (son of the Black Prince) First English Monarch to commission a lifelike portrait of himself. |
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1367-1399-1413 (46) |
Henry IV |
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1387-1413-1422 (35) |
Henry V |
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1421 -1422-1461&1470-1471 (50) |
Henry VI |
St George's Windsor |
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1442 -1461-1470&1471-1483 (41) |
Edward IV |
St George's Windsor |
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1470-1483-1483 (13) |
Edward V "The Prince in the Tower" |
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1452-1483-1485 (32) |
Richard III killed at the battle of Bosworth by the forces of Henry VII to be. |
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1457-1485-1509 (52) |
Inventor of the Tudors |
Westminster Abbey (Lady Chapel) and lifelike effigy in the museum |
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1491-1509-1547 (56) |
St George's Windsor |
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1537-1547-1553 (16) |
Edward VI |
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1516-1553-1558 (42) |
Mary I Married widower King Philip II of Spain, son of Emperor Charles V, in 1554, but died childless. Philip went on to marry again and to launch the "Invincible Spanish Armada" against the England of Mary's sister Elizabeth in 1588. Luckily for England an El Nino event got in the way. |
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1533-1558-1603 (70) |
Elizabeth I |
(tomb shared with sister Mary I) |
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1603 |
Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland (legislative togetherness was achieved an hundred years' later by the 1707 Acts of Union) |
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1566-1603-1625 (59) |
James I |
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1600-1625-1649 (49) |
Charles I |
St George's Windsor |
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Protectorate
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1599-1649-1658 (59) |
Oliver Cromwell |
Tyburn (body) but his head passed through many hands and exhibitions before being buried in Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1960. |
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1626-1658-1659-1712 (86) |
Richard Cromwell |
Hursley, Hampshire |
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| 1630-1660-1685 (55) |
Charles II |
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1633-1685-1688-1701 (68) |
James II |
St-Germain-en-Leye |
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1650-1689-1702 (52) |
William III and Mary II (1662-1694) |
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1665-1702-1714 (49) |
Anne |
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House of Hanover |
1660-1714-1727 (67) |
George I |
Hanover |
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| 1683-1727-1760 (77) |
George II |
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| 1738-1760-1820 (82) |
George III |
St George's Windsor |
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| 1762-1820-1830 (68) |
George IV |
St George's Windsor |
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| 1765-1830-1837 (72) |
William IV |
St George's Windsor |
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| 1819-1837-1901 (82) |
Victoria |
Frogmore Mausoleum, Windsor |
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House of Saxe-Coburg |
1841-1901-1910 (69) |
Edward VII |
St George's Windsor |
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House of Windsor |
1865-1910-1936 (71) |
George V |
St George's Windsor |
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1894-1936-1936-1972 (78) |
Edward VIII |
Frogmore, Windsor |
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1895-1936-1952 (57) |
George VI |
St George's Windsor |
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1926-1952- |
Elizabeth II |
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*Part of the information on this and some supporting pages is taken from an excellent web site by Ed Stephan, which also includes genealogies of the French, Spanish and German monarchies.
Wikipedia also has a good layout for its Monarchs in the British Isles
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