Monarch | Reign | Lineage | Spouse |
William I (the Conqueror) | 1066-1087 defeated Harold II at Hastings | Duke of Normandy | Matilda d Baldwin V of Flanders |
William II (Rufus) | 1087-1100 | 3rd son of William I | dnm |
Henry I (Beauclerc) | 1100-35 | 4th son of William I | 1 Matilda of Scotland
2 Adelicia of Louvaine |
Stephen, Count of Flanders | 1135-54 | Son of Adela, daughter of William I | Matilda of Boulogne |
Henry II 'Curtmantle' | 1154-89 | Son of Matilda, d of Henry I + Geoffrey Count of Anjou | Eleanor of Aquitaine |
Henry the Young King | 1170-83 | 2nd son of Henry II | Margaret d Louis VII of France |
Richard I 'Coeur de Lion' (Lionheart) | 1189-99 | 3rd son of Henry II | Berengaria of Navarre |
John | 1199-1216 | 5th son of Henry II | 1 Isabella dau Robert Earl of Gloucester
2 Isabella of Angouleme |
Henry III | 1216-72 | Son of John | Eleanor of Provence |
Edward I (Hammer of Scots) | 1272-1307 | Son of Henry III | 1 Eleanora of Castile
2 Marguerite of France |
Edward II (1st Prince Wales) | 1307 dep. 1327 | 4th son of Edward I | Isabella of France |
Edward III | 1327-77 | Son of Edward II | Philippa of Hainault |
Edward the Black Prince | D 1376 | Eldest son of Edward III | Joan of Kent |
Richard II | 1377 dep. 1399 | 2nd son of Edward, the Black Prince | 1 Anne of Bohemia sister of Wenceslas
2 Isabella of France |
Henry IV | 1399-1413 | Son of John of Gaunt and gs of Edward III | 1 Mary de Bohun d Earl of Hereford
2 Joan of Navarre |
Henry V | 1413-22 | Son of Henry IV | Catherine de Valois d Charles VI of France |
Henry VI | 1422 dep. 1461 | Son of Henry V | Margaret d Rene Count of Anjou |
Edward IV | 1461-83 | s Richard, D.York, gs Ed III | 1 Eleanor Butler
2 Elizabeth Woodville |
Edward V | 1483 | s Ed IV by illegal marriage to EW | - |
Richard III | 1483-5 | brother of Edward IV | Anne Neville d Warwick the Kingmaker |
Henry VII | 1485-1509 defeated Richard III at Bosworth | Earl of Richmond, desc John of Gaunt | Elizabeth of York, d. Ed. IV |
Henry VIII | 1509-47 | Son of Henry VII | 1. Katherine of Aragon
2. Anne Boleyn 3. Jane Seymour 4. Anne of Cleves 5. Catherine Howard 6. Catherine Parr |
Edward VI | 1547-1553 | Son of Henry VIII + 3 | - |
Lady Jane Grey | 1553 (9 Day Queen) | Grandaughter of Mary, sister of Henry VIII | Guildford Dudley |
Mary I | 1553-8 | Daughter of Henry VIII + 1 | Philip of Spain |
Elizabeth I | 1558-1603 | Daughter of Henry VIII + 2 | - |
James I (VI of Scots) | 1603-25 | son of Mary, Queen of Scots + Lord Darnley ggs of Henry VII | Anne of Denmark |
Charles I | 1625 beh. 1649 | son of James I | Henrietta Maria d Henry IV of France |
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector | 1653-8 | ||
Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector | 1658-9 | son of Oliver |
*This spelling seems to have been more fashionable by this period.
Charles II (the Merry Monarch) | 1660-85 | son of Charles I | Catherine of Braganza, d John IV of Portugal |
James II (VII of Scotland) | 1685 dep. 1688 | son of Charles I | Anne Hyde d Earl of Clarendon |
Interregnum | 1688-9 | ||
William III
+ Mary II |
1689-1702
1689-94 |
Prince of Orange (gs Charles I)
daughter of James II |
|
Anne | 1702-14 | daughter of James II | George of Denmark |
George I | 1714-27 | Elector of Hanover, great-grandson of James I | Sophia Dorothea of Zell/Celle |
George II | 1727-60 | son of George I | Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach |
Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales | died 1751 | son of George II | Augusta of Saxe Gotha |
George III | 1760-1820 | son of Frederick | Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg Strelitz |
George IV | 1820-30 | Son of George III | Caroline of Brunswick |
William IV | 1830-7 | 3rd son of George III | # Dorothea Jordan
1 Adelaide of Saxe-Meinigen |
Victoria | 1837-1901 | Daughter of Edward of Kent, son of George III | Albert of Saxe-Coburg + Gotha |
Edward VII | 1901-10 | son of Victoria and Albert | Alexandra of Denmark |
George V | 1910-36 | 2nd son of Edward VII | Mary of Teck |
Edward VIII | 1936 abd. | son of George V | Wallis Simpson |
George VI | 1936-52 | 2nd son of George V | Elizabeth Bowes Lyon |
Elizabeth II | 1952- | daughter of George VI | Philip of Greece, Duke of Edinburgh |
Charles, Prince of Wales | b 1948 | son of Elizabeth II | Diana Spencer |
William | b 1982 | son of Charles |
This collection of names was compiled by Kate Monk and is ©1997, Kate Monk.
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