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In the first centuries after the Norman Conquest of England, the French-speaking elite themselves mainly relied on Latin for record-keeping rather than using their own language, while English continued to have a written tradition until the year 1154, when the Angevins came into power.
Edward was the first king since the Conquest to speak English, and during his reign Middle English began to replace French as the language of the aristocracy. [150] In 1333, Edward invaded Scotland winning a major victory at the Battle of Halidon Hill due to the use of the English longbow. [151]
[3] [4] The title "King of the English" or Rex Anglorum in Latin, was first used to describe Æthelstan in one of his charters in 928. The standard title for monarchs from Æthelstan until John was "King of the English". In 1016 Cnut the Great, a Dane, was the first to call himself "King of England".
The first monarch to rule over what would later become Great Britain was King Alfred the Great, who was crowned as the King of England in 871 A.D. ... George I was the first English monarch to ...
He was a monarch of the House of Hanover, who, unlike his two predecessors, was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language, [1] and never visited Hanover. [2] George was born during the reign of his paternal grandfather, King George II, as the first son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.
By the terms of the English Act of Settlement 1701, George's mother, Sophia, was designated as the heir to the English throne if the then reigning monarch, William III, and his sister-in-law, Anne, died without surviving issue.
He founded the Royal Navy, oversaw the annexation of Wales to England with the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542, and was the first English monarch to rule as King of Ireland following the Crown of Ireland Act 1542. Henry's contemporaries considered him an attractive, educated, and accomplished king.
Æthelstan first adopted the title "king of the English" and is considered the founder of the English monarchy. [5] While the king theoretically held all governing authority, he relied on the support of the English church and nobility to govern. [6] The king's council or witan advised the king and also played a role in electing new monarchs.