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

Family tree of monarchs of England and Great Britain since the Norman Conquest
Edward the Elder
King Athelstan from All Souls College Chapel
Line engraving of Edwy made by an unknown engraver after an unknown artist
King Edgar of England
St. Edward the Martyr
Image of Æthelred II with an oversize sword from the illuminated manuscript "The Chronicle of Abingdon"
Sweyn Forkbeard, from an architectural element in the Swansea Guildhall, Swansea, Wales
Image of Æthelred II with an oversize sword from the illuminated manuscript "The Chronicle of Abingdon"
Edmund Ironside
Harold H
Edward Confessor
Edgar the Ætheling
William the Conqueror depicted at the Battle of Hastings, on the Bayeux Tapestry
William Rufus depicted in the Stowe Manuscript
Henry I
Stephen
Matilda
Henry II
Richard the Lionheart, an illustration from a 12th-century codex
King John
Lehmann - Louis VIII of France
Henry III
Edward I of England
Edward II
Edward III
Richard II
Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VI
Edward IV
Henry VI
Edward IV
Edward V
Richard III
Henry VII, by Michel Sittow, 1505
Henry VIII, by Hans Holbein, c.1536
Edward VI, by Hans Eworth
Streatham lady jayne
Mary I, by Antonius Mor, 1554
King Philip of England
Elizabeth I, by Darnley
James I, by Paulus van Somer
Charles I, by Anthony van Dyck
Oliver Cromwell
Richard Cromwell, c.1650
Charles II of England
James II
Mary II
Portrait of William III
Anne