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There is a [[English Monarchs (poem)|poem]] to help you remember the names of some of these monarchs.

=== House of Wessex ===
=== House of Wessex ===


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* [[Aethelred Unraed]] (the Unready) (978-1016)
* [[Aethelred Unraed]] (the Unready) (978-1016)
* [[Edmund Ironside]] (1016)
* [[Edmund Ironside]] (1016)

=== Danish Line ===

* [[Svein Forkbeard ]](1014)
* [[Canute the Great]] (1016-35)
* [[Harald Harefoot]] (1035-40)
* [[Hardicanute]] (1040-42)

=== House of Wessex === Restored

* [[Edward the Confessor]] (1042-66)
* [[Harold Godwinson]] (1066)

=== Norman Line ===
* [[William the Conqueror]] (1066-87)
* [[William Rufus]] (1087-1100)
* [[Henry I]] Beauclerc (1100-35)
* [[King Stephen]] (1135-54)
* [[Empress Matilda]] (1141)

=== Plantagenet, Angevin Line ===

* [[Henry II]] (1154-89)
* [[Richard I]] the Lionheart (1189-99)
* [[John Lackland]] (1199-1216)
* [[Henry III]] (1216-72)
* [[Edward I]] Longshanks (1272-1307)
* [[Edward II]] (1307-27)
* [[Edward III]] (1327-77)
* [[Richard II]] (1377-99)

=== Plantagenet, Lancastrian Line ===

* [[Henry IV]] Bolingbroke (1399-1413)
* [[Henry V]] (1413-22)
* [[Henry VI]] (1422-61, 1470-1)

=== Plantagenet, Yorkist Line ===

* [[Edward IV]] (1461-70, 1471-83)
* [[Edward V]] (1483)
* [[Richard III]] (1483-5)

=== Tudor Line ===
* [[Henry VII]] Tudor (1485-1509)
* [[Henry VIII]] (1509-47)
* [[Edward VI]] (1547-53)
* [[Lady Jane Grey]] (1553)
* Bloody [[Mary I]] (1553-58)
* [[Elizabeth I]] (1558-1603)


[[category: monarchs (medieval)]]

Revision as of 04:53, 9 October 2005

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