List of English monarchs

The list of sovereign ruler of England comprises the heads of state of the Kingdom of England by the agreement in the 9th century by the year 1707, when it was sprung by the Act of Union in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Traditionally, King Egbert of Wessex is done as the first in the lists of kings of England, as he was the first out of the house of the kings of Wessex, at least temporarily able to establish a supremacy over the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy in Britain. His descendants unified the small kingdoms of the Angles and Saxons to an Anglo-Saxon kingdom which was simply called England from the early 10th century.

After the invasion by William the Conqueror in 1066, England was culturally and politically under the influence of the French mainland, and went finally in 1154 the territorial conglomerate of Plantagenet one, the Angevin Empire called. From the late 12th century, the English kings gradually subjugated the island of Ireland and Wales. In the early 13th century broke the Angevin Empire, the House of Plantagenet. The normannischstämmige nobility integrated into the Anglo-Saxon population, and now gradually took a stand-alone English national consciousness to.

1541 the Kingdom of Ireland was founded, which was in personal union with England. From 1603 there was also a personal union with Scotland, which was finally converted in 1707 into a real union under the name Kingdom of Great Britain.

List of the Kings of England

Anglo-Saxon dynasty (House of Wessex )

Anglo-Saxons and Danes

Norman dynasty ( Rolloniden )

Angevin dynasty (House of Plantagenet )

House of Lancaster

House of York

House of Lancaster

House of York

House of Tudor

House of Stuart

Commonwealth of England

House of Stuart

Launched jointly by the Glorious Revolution to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland, they recognized the common law in England and freedoms in the Bill of Rights, which the state adopted a constitutional form. After the death of his wife Wilhelm could continue to govern in its own right, claiming his kingdom against the Jacobites in Scotland and Ireland ( Battle of the Boyne, 1690). In the Act of Settlement 1701 Catholics were excluded from the succession. Made with Habsburg the Grand Alliance against France.

Acts of Union 1707 Personalunion Realunion Ealhmund of Kent Bretwalda Danelaw Humber Louis IV of France Eadred Eadwig Dunstan Edgar the Peaceful Danegeld Harold Harefoot Harthacnut Edward the Confessor House of Normandy Norman conquest of England William II of England Henry I of England Battle of Tinchebray William Clito Stephen, King of England Battle of Lincoln (1141) Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou Rout of Winchester Henry II of England Battle of Roche-au-Moine Louis VIII of France Blanche of Castile Battle of Lincoln (1217) Battle of Sandwich (1217) Henry III of England Battle of Taillebourg Treaty of Paris (1259) Battle of Lewes Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester Edward I of England Ninth Crusade Philip IV of France Hugh Despenser the Younger Edward III of England Calais Richard II of England Wat Tyler Henry IV of England Lollardy Henry V of England Henry VI of England Charles VII of France Battle of Castillon Wars of the Roses Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick Princes in the Tower Battle of Bosworth Field Tudor dynasty Henry VII of England Church of England Edward VI of England Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset Spanish Armada James VI and I Oliver Cromwell Richard Cromwell James II of England Mary II of England Bill of Rights 1689 War of the Spanish Succession List of Scottish monarchs List of Irish monarchs King of Mann History of England

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