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King of the Anglo-Saxons 849–899 King of the West Saxons r. 871–899: Queen Ealhswith d. 902 Queen of the West Saxons: Æthelred d. 911 Lord of the Mercians: Æthelflæd c. 870 –918 Lady of the Mercians First Daughter of King Alfred the Great and Queen Ealhswith: Queen Ecgwynn 890s First wife of Edward the Elder: King Edward the Elder
The genealogies trace the succession of the early Anglo-Saxon kings, back to the semi-legendary kings of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, notably named as Hengist and Horsa in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, and further to legendary kings and heroes of the pre-migration period, usually including an eponymous ancestor of the ...
A continuation of the tree into the 10th and 11th centuries can be found at English monarchs family tree. The tree is largely based on the late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List (reproduced in several forms, including as a preface to the [B] manuscript of the Chronicle), [1] and Asser's Life of King ...
For some two hundred years from the mid-7th century onwards it was the dominant member of the Heptarchy and consequently the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. During this period its rulers became the first English monarchs to assume such wide-ranging titles as King of Britain and King of the English.
After Harthacanute, there was a brief Anglo-Saxon restoration between 1042 and 1066 under Edward the Confessor, who was a son of Æthelred, who was later succeeded by Harold Godwinson, a member of the House of Godwin, possibly a side branch of the Cerdicings (see Ancestry of the Godwins).
The following is a simplified family tree of the English, Scottish, and British monarchs. ... King of the Anglo-Saxons r. 871–899: Giric c. 832 –889 King of the ...
Next on the royal family tree is Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, the first-born son of Prince Charles and his late wife, Diana, Princess of Wales. By virtue of his being male, from the moment ...
Edmund, king of the East Angles, who was killed during the invasion of his kingdom by the Great Heathen Army. The Kingdom of East Anglia, also known as the Kingdom of the East Angles, was a small independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom that comprised what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of The Fens.