English Monarchs - History of the kings and Queens of England
WEBSaxons. The Anglo-Saxon kings, included Alfred the Great, the ineffectual Ethelred the Redeless (978-1016) and his pious son, Edward the Confessor (1042-1066) who was later canonized in 1161. The Anglo-Saxon line was interrupted for two decades by Viking conquerors but was re-established by Edward the Confessor.The Confessor is said to have willed his throne to his brother-in-law, King Harold ...
Edmund I the Elder, Saxon King of England - English Monarchs
WEBEdmund I, known as 'the Elder' or the Magnificent, was born circa 921, the son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife Edgiva. As a sixteen year old, he had fought with distinction beside his elder half-brother, King Athelstan, at the Battle of Brunanburh against a combined force of Scots and Vikings. Edmund was around eighteen when he ...
Edward, Earl of Warwick - English Monarchs
WEB25 February 1475 - 28 November 1499. Edward, 17th Earl of Warwick was the last male member of the House of Plantagenet. He was the son of George, Duke of Clarence, the brother of Edward IV and Richard IIII and of Isabel Neville, elder daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, known as 'Warwick the Kingmaker. He was born on 25 February 1475, at Warwick, the family home of his mother.
Historic Battles of the Kings and Queens - English Monarchs
WEBThe Battle of Brunanburh - 937. The Battle of Brunanburh, fought in 937 and one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on British soil, was a great Anglo-Saxon victory for a combined Anglo-Saxon army from Mercia and Wessex led by Athelstan, King of England, (the grandson of Alfred the Great) and his brother Edmund over the allied forces of Olaf III Guthfrithson, the Norse-Gael King of Dublin ...
The Castles of Edward I - English Monarchs
WEBThe Welsh leader Madog ap Llywelyn launched an unsuccessful attack on the castle during his rebellion of 1294-5, but in 1404 Owen Glendower succeeded in capturing it, he held a parliament there and for a time it served as his capital before being retaken by the English in 1408 . During the Wars of the Roses, Harlech Castle was the subject of a lengthy siege lasting for seven years, the castle ...
The known history of the Boleyn - English Monarchs
WEBHistory of the Boleyn family. The known history of the Boleyn family starts with Thomas Boleyn, a yeoman farmer of Sale in Norfolk who married Anne Bracton, the daughter of Sir John Bracton. Thomas descended from Nicholas Boleyn. The earliest evidence for any of the Boleyn family in the Salle area regards John Boleyn and William Boleyn who ...
The Beaufort Family - English Monarchs
WEBThe House of Beaufort. The House of Beaufort descended from the illicit union of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (1340 - 1399) and his mistress Katherine Swynford, the family played an important role as staunch Lancastrian supporters during the fifteenth-century Wars of the Roses.The surname Beaufort derives from a castle owned by John of Gaunt in Champagne, now Montmorency-Beaufort.
A history of the The Neville Family - English Monarchs
WEBThe family can be traced back to Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria, a great-grandson of the Saxon King Ethelred II through his mother, Ealdgyth. Gospatric, allied to Edgar Ætheling, the Saxon heir to the throne and Earls Edwin and Morcar led a failed uprising against William the Conqueror in 1068. William confiscated Gospatric's earldom in 1072 ...
Cerdic was the first king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom - English …
WEBThe Anglo-Saxons. Cerdic was the first king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Wessex who reigned from 519 to 534, and the ancestor of all the subsequent Anglo-Saxon Kings of England. The Anglo-Saxons were partly descended from the Germanic tribes who migrated from Europe and settled the south and east of England at the beginning of the early fifth ...
Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge - English Monarchs
WEBCirca 20 July 1375 - 5 August 1415. Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge was born circa 1375, at Conisbrough Castle, in Yorkshire, he was the second son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, (fourth surviving son of Edward III) and Isabella of Castile, daughter of Pedro the Cruel of Castille and his mistress, Maria de Padilla.King Richard II stood as his godfather.