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[3] [4] The title "King of the English" or Rex Anglorum in Latin, was first used to describe Æthelstan in one of his charters in 928. 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
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.
Example 1: 4 July 1776. This falls in the reign of George III, whose first regnal year is 1760; so 1776 – 1760 = 16th year of his reign (4 July is before 25 October). Example 2: 2 May 1662. This is in the reign of Charles II, whose first regnal year is 1649. So 1662 – 1649 = 13, add 1 because 2 May is after 30 January, so the date falls in ...
King Edward the Elder First Son of King Alfred the Great and Queen Ealhswith c. 874/877 - 924 King of the Anglo-Saxons r. 899–924: Queen Eadgifu of Kent c. 903 –966 Third wife of Edward the Elder: Queen Ælfflæd c. 899-919 Second wife of Edward the Elder: Æthelweard d. 920 or 922 Second Son of King Alfred the Great and Ealhswith ...
2 Timeline. 3 Family tree. 4 See also. 5 Notes. ... descent from the traditional first king of Wessex, ... 2nd King of Wessex 534–560: Ceawlin d.
Thus, Queen Anne became the last monarch of the ancient kingdoms of Scotland and England and the first of Great Britain, although the kingdoms had shared a monarch since 1603 (see Union of the Crowns). Her uncle Charles II was the last monarch to be crowned in Scotland, at Scone in 1651. He had a second coronation in England ten years later.
The first Stuart to become King of England (r. 1603–1625 ), James VI and I , was a great-grandson of Henry VII's daughter Margaret Tudor , who in 1503 had married James IV of Scotland in accordance with the 1502 Treaty of Perpetual Peace .
The regnal years used for the kings are inconsistent with their actual reign lengths, possibly due to the author having copied the list from a document where the years had been lost or damaged. The list records genealogical information for all but two of the kings of the first dynasty, but only for two of the kings of the Sealand dynasty.