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This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up modern England. Alfred styled himself king of the Anglo-Saxons from about 886, and while he was not the first king to claim to rule all of the English, his rule ...
Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch, reigned from 6 February 1952 until her death on 8 September 2022.. The following is a list, ordered by length of reign, of the monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1927–present), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922), the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801), the Kingdom of England (871 ...
Queen Anne became monarch of the Kingdom of Great Britain after the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707. She had ruled England, Scotland, and the Kingdom of Ireland since 8 March 1702. She continued as queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death. Her total reign lasted 12 years and 147 days.
For centuries, English official public documents have been dated according to the regnal years of the ruling monarch.Traditionally, parliamentary statutes are referenced by regnal year, e.g. the Occasional Conformity Act 1711 is officially referenced as "10 Ann. c. 6" (read as "the sixth chapter of the statute of the parliamentary session that sat in the 10th year of the reign of Queen Anne").
King of England r. 1040–1042: Harold I Harefoot c. 1015 –1040 King of England r. 1037–1040: Lulach the fool before 1033–1058 King of Alba r. 1057–1058: House of Normandy: William I the Conqueror c. 1028 –1087 King of England r. 1066–1087: Saint Margaret of Scotland c. 1045 –1093: Malcolm III Canmore c. 1031 –1093 King of Scots ...
1003/1005–1066 King of the English r. 1042–1066 Son of Æthelred the Unready: Alfred Aetheling d. 1036 Son of the king Æthelred the Unready: Godgifu 1004–c. 1047 Daughter of King Æthelred the Unready Robert I 1000–1035 Duke of Normandy: King Edgar II the Ætheling c. 1051 –1126 King of England r. 1066: Cristina d. c. 1100
Since then, all English kings claimed dominion over Ireland, using the title Lord of Ireland. Few kings ever visited the island, however. They preferred to rule through lieutenants for Ireland. [73] By 1541, King Henry VIII of England had broken with the Church of Rome and declared himself Supreme Head of the Church of England.
21 April 1509 (King) 11 June 1509 (Queen) marriage: Sunday, 24 June 1509: William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury [b] Anne Boleyn- article: 28 May 1533 marriage: Sunday, 1 June 1533: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury Edward VI - article [c] 28 January 1547: Sunday, 20 February 1547 Mary I - article [d] 19 July 1553: Sunday, 1 October 1553