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 …
The Britons of Strathclyde - English Monarchs
Strathclyde or Ystrad Clud (beautiful Estuary) was a kingdom of the Britons, or brythonic celts in the Hen Ogledd, in what is now Northern England and southern Scotland, through the post-Roman and medieval eras. The original occupants of the area were a Celtic tribe known as the Damnonii. The Scots ...
Royal Residences and Ecclesiastical Sites - English Monarchs
Royal Residences of the Kings and Queens of England. Royal Residences and Historic Buildings. There are many royal residences in the United Kingdom, some of these, such as Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, are owned by the Crown, while others like Balmoral Castle and Sandringham House are personally owned.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - English Monarchs
King Alfred the Great. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle began to be compiled in around 890 A.D., at the command of King Alfred the Great (871- 899) and consists of a series of annals written in the Old English language.. Alfred ordered that copies be made of the original manuscripts and distributed to monasteries across the length and breadth of England, which were to be …
Egbert, or Ecgbehrt, the first King of all England - English Monarchs
Egbert, in Old English Ecgbehrt, the first King of all England, was born around 770-780. He was the son of Ealhmund, King of Kent, who is mentioned in a charter of 784. Ealhmund was himself the son of Eafa, King of Wessex, by a Kentish princess. The House of Wessex boasted of a descent from no less ...
Edmund I the Elder, Saxon King of England - English Monarchs
King of England. Edmund I, known as 'the Elder' or the Magnificent, was born circa 921, the son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife Edgiva. As a sixteen year old, he had fought with distinction beside his elder half-brother, King Athelstan, at the Battle of Brunanburh against a combined force of Scots and Vikings. Edmund was around eighteen when he succeeded …
Edward I, son of Henry III and Eleanor - English Monarchs
The Second Baron's War. The civil war known as the Second Barons' War broke out in England in 1264, rebel barons led by Henry's French-born brother-in-law, Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, fought against forces loyal to King Henry III.Montfort wanted to reassert the terms of the Magna Carta and force the king to surrender more power to the baronial council.
Richard Earl of Cornwall - English Monarchs
5 January 1209 - 2 April 1272. The younger son of King John and Isabella of Angouleme, Richard Earl of Cornwall was born on 5 January 1209 at Winchester Castle and named in honour of his uncle King Richard the Lionheart.. Richard Earl of Cornwall. Richard was but six years old when his father died and his elder brother Henry succeeded to the throne.
Stirling Castle, Scotland - English Monarchs
Stirling Castle Interior. Mary Queen of Scots spent the early part of her childhood at the castle from 27 July 1543 to February 1548, when she was moved to Dumbarton Castle and eventually left for France. Mary's coronation took place in the Chapel Royal at Stirling in 1543. Following the death of her first husband, Francois II of France, Mary returned to her native Scotland in 1561, …
The Castles of Edward I - English Monarchs
The Welsh leader Madog ap Llywelyn launched an unsuccessful attack on the castle during his rebellion of 1294-5, but in 1404 Owen Glendower succeeded in capturing it, he held a parliament there and for a time it served as his capital before being retaken by the English in 1408 . During the Wars of the Roses, Harlech Castle was the subject of a lengthy siege lasting for seven …