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The standard title for monarchs from Æthelstan until John was "King of the English". In 1016 Cnut the Great, a Dane, was the first to call himself "King of England". In the Norman period "King of the English" remained standard, with occasional use of "King of England" or Rex Anglie. From John's reign onwards all other titles were eschewed in ...
A notable example of the transmission of biblical stories in a vernacular in flux is the c. 1850-line La Estorie del Euangelie, a Middle English poem that paraphrases the Nativity and Passion texts; it was reformulated in least seven quite different versions between the early 1200s to the early 1400s, each in different English dialects (East ...
The next two centuries saw huge growth in the English economy, driven in part by the increase in the population from around 1.5 million in 1086 to between 4 and 5 million in 1300. [148] More land, much of it at the expense of the royal forests, was brought into production to feed the growing population and to produce wool for export to Europe ...
27 September – John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, English soldier; 1305. 23 August – William Wallace (born c. 1270 in Scotland) 1306. Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk (born 1270) 1307. 7 April – Joan of Acre, daughter of King Edward I of England (born 1271) 7 July – King Edward I of England (born 1239) [3]
Queen of the English: King Æthelred the Unready c. 966 –1016 King of the English r. 978–1013 r. 1014–1016: Queen Emma of Normandy c. 985 –1052 Queen of the English: King Cnut the Great c. 985/995 –1035 King of England r. 1016–1035: Queen Ælfgifu of Northampton c. 990 – after 1040 the first wife of King Cnut: Richard II 963 ...
William of Malmesbury: Gesta pontificum Anglorum (Deeds of the English Bishops), Vol. II: General Introduction and Commentary, by R. M. Thomson, Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-19-922661-X; William of Malmesbury: Gesta regum Anglorum (Deeds of the Kings of the English), Vol. I, Edited and Translated by R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson and M ...
English nobleman, probably a squire (later a Lord-Chief Justice) Barrau de Sescas ~1270–1325 Gascony He was a Gascon Knight, vassal of Albret and a supporter of the English, he served as admiral of Bayonne fleet and captain of the coast Richard Stapledon ~1260–1326 Devon A knight, judge, and elder brother of Walter de Stapledon. In 1326 he ...
He was also the first king crowned King of England rather than King of the English. Henry founded the Angevin Empire, which controlled almost half of France including Normandy, Anjou, Maine, Touraine, and the Duchy of Aquitaine. [63] Henry's first task was restoring royal authority in a kingdom fractured by years of civil war.