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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 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 963–1026 Duke of Normandy: Æthelstan Ætheling 980s–1014 First Son of King Æthelred the Unready: King Edmund II Ironside c. 990 –1016 King of the English ...
1305 Capture and execution of Scottish resistance fighter William Wallace by the English on a charge of treason; 1306 Robert the Bruce kills John Comyn III of Badenoch and is crowned King of Scotland; 1307 Death of Edward I, Edward II accedes to the English throne; 1314 Decisive victory for Scotland over England at the Battle of Bannockburn
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.
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]
King John was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Innocent III. 1214 The English defeated in Battle of Bouvinnes. 1215: The Magna Carta was signed. 1237: The Treaty of York was signed, fixing the border between Scotland and England. 1239 17 June Edward I, the future king of England (r. 1272-1307), is born to Henry III and Elanor of ...
King Charles III has travelled more than 1,500 miles around the UK in his first week on the throne. Charles has spent the past week carrying out engagements and a tour of the home nations since ...
The Pale of Calais [a] was a territory in northern France ruled by the monarchs of England from 1347 to 1558. [1] The area, which centred on Calais, was taken following the Battle of Crécy in 1346 and the subsequent Siege of Calais, and was confirmed at the Treaty of Brétigny in 1360, in the reign of Edward III of England.