List of English monarchs facts for kids

This is a list of the Kings and Queens of the Kingdom of England from 924 until England and Scotland joined together in 1707.

First kings

See also: List of monarchs of Wessex

• Athelstan (924–939)
• Edmund I (939–946)
• Edred (946–955)
• Edwy the Fair (955–959)
• Edgar the Peaceable (959–975)
• St Edward the Martyr (975–978)
• Ethelred the Unready (978 – 1013, 1014 – 1016)
• Edmund Ironside (1016)

Danish Kings

• Sweyn Forkbeard (1013–1014)
• Canute the Great (1016–1035)
• Harold Harefoot (1035–1040)
• Harthacanute (1040–1042)

House of Wessex Restoration

• St Edward the Confessor (1042–1066)
• Harold Godwinson (1066)
• Edgar Ætheling (1066) (uncrowned)

Normans

In 1066, William, Duke of Normandy invaded England. He defeated King Harold II and became King.

• William the Conqueror (1066–1087)
• William II (1087–1100)
• Henry I (1100–1135)
• Stephen (1135–1154)

Plantagenets

Angevins

Edward III as he was portrayed in the late 16th century.

• Empress Matilda (1141)
• Henry II (1154–1189)
• Richard I, the Lionheart (1189–1199)
• John (1199–1216)
• Henry III (1216–1272)
• Edward I (1272–1307)
• Edward II (1307–1327) (deposed, died 1327)
• Edward III (1327–1377)
• Richard II (1377–1399) (deposed, died 1400)

Lancastrians

• Henry IV (1399–1413)
• Henry V (1413–1422)
• Henry VI (1422–1461 and 1470–1471)

Yorkists

• Edward IV (1461–1470 and 1471–1483)
• Edward V (uncrowned) (1483) (deposed 1483 possibly assassinated)
• Richard III (1483–1485)

Tudors

The Tudors were from Wales. In 1536, Wales became part of England. England had controlled Wales since 1284.

• Henry VII (1485–1509)
• Henry VIII (1509–1547)
• Edward VI (1547–1553)
• Jane (uncrowned) (1553) (deposed, beheaded 1554)
• Mary I (1553–1558)
• Elizabeth I (1558–1603)

Stuarts

The Stuarts were also Kings of Scotland, with which kingdom England was in personal, but not Legal union until 1707.

• James I (1603–1625), also from 1567 King James VI of Scotland
• Charles I (1625–1649), also King of Scotland

Interregnum

There was a civil war in England from 1642 until 1652. In 1649, King Charles I was executed and England became a Commonwealth. In 1653 Oliver Cromwell made himself Lord Protector and so England became a protectorate. Cromwell died in 1658 and his son, Richard, became Lord Protector. In 1660 power was given back to the Monarchy.

Stuarts (restored)

• Charles II (1660–1685), also King of Scotland (backdated the start of his reign to 1649)
• James II (1685–1688) (deposed, died 1701), also King James VII of Scotland
• William III (1689–1702) and Mary II (1689–1694), as co-monarchs, also King and Queen of Scotland
• Anne (1702–1714), though the English throne was replaced with that of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707

Related pages

• In 1707, England and Scotland joined together. For Kings and Queens after 1707, see British monarchs.

Images for kids

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  Family tree of monarchs of England and Great Britain since the Norman Conquest

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  Edward the Elder

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  King Athelstan from All Souls College Chapel

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  Line engraving of Edwy made by an unknown engraver after an unknown artist

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  King Edgar of England

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  St. Edward the Martyr

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  Image of Æthelred II with an oversize sword from the illuminated manuscript "The Chronicle of Abingdon"

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  Sweyn Forkbeard, from an architectural element in the Swansea Guildhall, Swansea, Wales

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  Image of Æthelred II with an oversize sword from the illuminated manuscript "The Chronicle of Abingdon"

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  Edmund Ironside

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  Harold H

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  Edward Confessor

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  Edgar the Ætheling

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  William the Conqueror depicted at the Battle of Hastings, on the Bayeux Tapestry

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  William Rufus depicted in the Stowe Manuscript

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  Henry I

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  Stephen

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  Matilda

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  Henry II

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  Richard the Lionheart, an illustration from a 12th-century codex

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  King John

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  Lehmann - Louis VIII of France

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  Henry III

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  Edward I of England

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  Edward II

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  Edward III

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  Richard II

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  Henry IV

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  Henry V

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  Henry VI

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  Edward IV

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  Henry VI

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  Edward IV

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  Edward V

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  Richard III

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  Henry VII, by Michel Sittow, 1505

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  Henry VIII, by Hans Holbein, c.1536

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  Edward VI, by Hans Eworth

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  Streatham lady jayne

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  Mary I, by Antonius Mor, 1554

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  King Philip of England

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  Elizabeth I, by Darnley

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  James I, by Paulus van Somer

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  Charles I, by Anthony van Dyck

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  Oliver Cromwell

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  Richard Cromwell, c.1650

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  Charles II of England

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  James II

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  Mary II

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  Portrait of William III

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  Anne