English Monarchs - History of the kings and Queens of England
Saxons. The Anglo-Saxon kings, included Alfred the Great, the ineffectual Ethelred the Redeless (978-1016) and his pious son, Edward the Confessor (1042-1066) who was later canonized in 1161. The Anglo-Saxon line was interrupted for two decades by Viking conquerors but was re-established by Edward the Confessor.The Confessor is said to have willed his throne to his brother-in-law, King Harold ...
The Tower of London in the Middle Ages - English Monarchs
The military-minded King Richard 'the Lionheart (1189-1199) added fortifications to the building along with a surrounding deep defensive moat. The Tower underwent vast changes in the reign of his nephew, Henry III (1216-72) In 1234 Henry built the great medieval hall south of the keep. Among others, he erected the Wakefield, Constable, Devereux, Flint and Broad Arrow Towers and commenced the ...
A History of Buckingham Palace - English Monarchs
Buckingham Palace. The original Buckingham House, as it was then known, stood on the site of what was formerly a mulberry tree garden established by King James I, in an ill-advised and failed attempt to cultivate silkworms. The building was purchased for £21,000 in 1762 from Charles Herbert Sheffield by King George III as a private home for ...
Saxon - History of the Saxon kings and Queens - English Monarchs
The House of Wessex. Eighth century England consisted of seven Anglo-Saxon sub-kingdoms that existed in a state of internecine warfare. Occasionally a king of one of the larger three kingdoms, Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria, would emerge from the dynastic turmoil to be accepted as Bretwalda (Bretanwealda in Old English) or overlord by the others.
Uhtred the Bold, ealdorman of Northumbria - English Monarchs
Uhtred the Bold was the son of Waltheof I, ealdorman of Bamburgh, whose ancestors had ruled Northumbria from the dramatic coastal castle of Bamburgh. Earl Uhtred of Bebbanburg, also from Northumbria, features in Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories. In the stories, Cornwell places Uhtred earlier in history. The historical drama television series ...
The House of Windsor kings and Queens - English Monarchs
The House of Windsor has produced four British sovereigns, George V (1910-1936), his son Edward VIII (1936), who abdicated the throne to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Warfield Simpson in favour of his brother George VI (1936-52) and the present Queen, Elizabeth II. In 1960, the Queen and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh came to the ...
Lancaster - History of the Lancaster kings and Queens - English …
The House of Lancaster. The House of Lancaster, a branch of the Plantagenet family, descended from John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the third surviving son of King Edward III, produced 3 Kings of England- Henry IV (1367 -1413), Henry V (1386 - 1422) and Henry VI (1421 - 1471). The first Earl of Lancaster was Edmund Crouchback, younger son of ...
Edward, Earl of Warwick - English Monarchs
25 February 1475 - 28 November 1499. Edward, 17th Earl of Warwick was the last male member of the House of Plantagenet. He was the son of George, Duke of Clarence, the brother of Edward IV and Richard IIII and of Isabel Neville, elder daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, known as 'Warwick the Kingmaker. He was born on 25 February 1475, at Warwick, the family home of his mother.
England's first Stuart monarch, James I & VI - English Monarchs
1603-1625. Early Years. England's first Stuart monarch, James I & VI, the son of that ill-matched pair, Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was born at Edinburgh Castle after a difficult and protracted labour on 19th June 1566. Elizabeth I stood as godmother by proxy at his Catholic baptism when he was given the names James ...
The Legend of Robin Hood - English Monarchs
The often told legend of Robin Hood relates that in the days of King Richard the Lionheart, Robin of Loxley, a yeoman of Nottinghamshire, who, being driven to outlawry during the misrule of Richard's brother John, took to the greenwood of Sherwood Forest, from where he stole from rich travellers and distributed his takings among the poor.