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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 ...
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 ...
King of the English r. 924–939: Edmund I 921–946 King of the English r. 939–946: Eadred 923–955 King of the English r. 946–955: Malcolm I c. 900 –954 King of Alba r. 943–954: Indulf d. 962 King of Alba r. 954–962: Richard I 933–996 Duke of Normandy: Eadwig All-Fair c. 940 –959 King of the English r. 955–959: Edgar I the ...
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.
1300 10 March – Wardrobe accounts of King Edward I of England ("Edward Longshanks") include a reference to a game called creag being played at the town of Newenden in Kent . It is generally agreed that creag is an early form of cricket .
Kings of Essex; Kings of Hwicce; Kings of Kent; Kings of Lindsey; Kings of Mercia; Kings of Northumbria; Kings of Sussex; Kings of Wessex; Kings of Jorvik; Earls of York; Earls of Northumbria; Kings of Dál Riata; Kings of the Picts; Lords of Galloway; Rulers of Wales; Kings of Gwynedd; Kings of the Isle of Man and the Isles; Kings of the Isle ...
1154 Death of King Stephen, accession of Henry II to the English throne; 1164 Constitutions of Clarendon, a set of laws which governs the trial of members of the Church in England; 1170 Assassination of Thomas Becket; death of Owain Gwynedd, prince of Wales; 1189 Death of Henry II, Richard I accedes to the English throne.
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 ...