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Since that time, the eldest sons of all English monarchs, except for King Edward III, [a] have borne this title. After the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, her cousin King James VI of Scotland inherited the English crown as James I of England, joining the crowns of England and Scotland in personal union.
"The Continental Dynasties 1066–1216" (PDF). The official website of the British Monarchy. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-04-26. "The Plantagenet Dynasties 1216–1485" (PDF). The official website of the British Monarchy. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-04-26. "The Tudors 1485–1603 and the Stuarts 1603–1714" (PDF). The ...
English: Here is the family tree of all the English and Scottish monarchs and all their different ruling Houses up to present time with the current monarch Charles the IIIrd of the United Kingdom. I decided to start this chart with Alfred the Great, first king of the Anglo-Saxons on the English side and on the Scottish one, with Alpín mac ...
"The Continental Dynasties (1066–1216)" (PDF). The official website of the British Monarchy. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-04-26. "The Plantagenet Dynasties (1216–1485)" (PDF). The official website of the British Monarchy. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-04-26. "The Tudors (1485–1603) and the Stuarts (1603–1714 ...
The English Civil War began (see timeline of the English Civil War). 1649: January: Trial and execution of Charles I: 1649: Interregnum began with the First Commonwealth. 1650 4 November William III, the future king of England (r. 1689-1702), is born to parents William II of Orange and Mary of England. 1653–1659
For centuries, English official public documents have been dated according to the regnal years of the ruling monarch.Traditionally, parliamentary statutes are referenced by regnal year, e.g. the Occasional Conformity Act 1711 is officially referenced as "10 Ann. c. 6" (read as "the sixth chapter of the statute of the parliamentary session that sat in the 10th year of the reign of Queen Anne").
All English monarchs after 1066 ultimately descend from the Normans, and the distinction of the Plantagenets is conventional—beginning with Henry II (reigned 1154–1189) as from that time, the Angevin kings became "more English in nature"; the houses of Lancaster and York are both Plantagenet cadet branches, the Tudor dynasty claimed descent ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 1066–1216: Plantagenet: 1216–1485: Tudor: 1485–1603 ... During this time the monarchial system of government was ...