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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". In the Norman period "King of the English" remained standard, with occasional use of "King of England" or Rex Anglie. From John's reign onwards all other titles were eschewed in ...
There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.
c. 1022 –1066 King of the English r. 1066: Edith of Wessex c. 1025 –1075 Queen of the English: King Edward II the Confessor 1003/1005–1066 King of the English r. 1042–1066 Son of Æthelred the Unready: Alfred Aetheling d. 1036 Son of the king Æthelred the Unready: Godgifu 1004–c. 1047 Daughter of King Æthelred the Unready Robert I ...
The following is a simplified family tree of the English, Scottish, and British monarchs. ... c. 1003 –1066 King of the English r. 1042–1066 ... 1452–1485 King ...
English continued to be used on a modest scale to write local religious works and some poems in the north of England, but most major works were produced in Latin or French. [168] Music and singing were important in England during the medieval period, being used in religious ceremonies, court occasions and to accompany theatrical works. [ 169 ]
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").
See Family tree of English monarchs, Family tree of Scottish monarchs, and Family tree of Welsh monarchs. This also includes England, Scotland and Wales; all part of the United Kingdom as well as the French Norman invasion. For a simplified view, see: Family tree of British monarchs.
The English monarchy traces its origins to the petty kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, which consolidated into the Kingdom of England by the 10th century. Anglo-Saxon England had an elective monarchy, but this was replaced by primogeniture after the Norman Conquest in 1066.