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Family tree of English monarchs; Family tree of British monarchs; List of office holders of the United Kingdom and predecessor states. List of British monarchs; Lists of monarchs in the British Isles; List of Irish monarchs; List of monarchs of the British Isles by cause of death; List of monarchs of Wessex, AD 519 to 927; List of rulers of Wales
English: Here is the family tree of all the English and Scottish monarchs and all their different ruling Houses up to present time with the current monarch Charles the IIIrd of the United Kingdom. I decided to start this chart with Alfred the Great, first king of the Anglo-Saxons on the English side and on the Scottish one, with Alpín mac ...
Richard II was not the first English monarch to be deposed; that distinction belongs to Edward II. Edward abdicated in favor of his son and heir. In Richard's case, the line of succession was deliberately broken by Parliament. Historian Tracy Borman writes that this "created a dangerous precedent and made the crown fundamentally unstable." [185]
The English Civil War began (see timeline of the English Civil War). 1649: January: Trial and execution of Charles I: 1649: Interregnum began with the First Commonwealth. 1650 4 November William III, the future king of England (r. 1689-1702), is born to parents William II of Orange and Mary of England. 1653–1659
There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.
At first, every member of the Commonwealth retained the same monarch as the United Kingdom, but when the Dominion of India became a republic in 1950, it would no longer share in a common monarchy. Instead, the British monarch was acknowledged as "Head of the Commonwealth" in all Commonwealth member states, whether they were realms or republics ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ... List of English monarchs; List of rulers in ...
King of the English r. 1035/1037–1040: Edmund Ætheling c. 1015/1017 – before 1054 Son of King Edmund Ironside: Edward the Exile 1016–1057 Son of King Edmund Ironside: Agatha, before 1030– after 1070 Wife of Edward the Exile: King Harold II c. 1022 –1066 King of the English r. 1066: Edith of Wessex c. 1025 –1075 Queen of the English ...