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This is a list of monarchs of the Kingdom of the West Saxons (Wessex) until 886 AD. While the details of the later monarchs are confirmed by a number of sources, the earlier ones are in many cases obscure.
A 12th-century list of kings gives him a reign length of four weeks, though one manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says he died only 16 days after his father. [7] However, the fact that he ruled is not accepted by all historians. Also, it is unclear whether—if Ælfweard was declared king—it was over the whole kingdom or of Wessex only.
Died after suffering a fever at the Isle of Kerrera in the Inner Hebrides: Henry III: Monarchs of England and Ireland (England) 1 October 1207 1216–1272 16 November 1272 Died of illness. Margaret: House of Sverre Dunkeld (Scotland) 9 April 1283 1286–1290 26 September 1290 Food poisoning and sea sickness. Edward I "Longshanks"
More than a millennium of monarchs. 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.
The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List on folio 1r of Cambridge Corpus Christi College MS 173 (also known as the Parker Chronicle). The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List (also known as the West Saxon Regnal Table, West Saxon Regnal List, and Genealogical Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) is the name given in modern scholarship to a list of West-Saxon kings (which has no title in its ...
He gave each of his Wessex counties a fictionalised name, such as with Berkshire, which is known in the novels as "North Wessex". [citation needed] In the book and television series The Last Kingdom, Wessex is the primary setting, focusing on the rule of Alfred the Great and the war against the Vikings. [47] Wessex remains a common term for the ...
These burial places of British royalty record the known graves of monarchs who have reigned in some part of the British Isles (currently includes only the monarchs of Scotland, England, native princes of Wales to 1283, or monarchs of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom), as well as members of their royal families.
A 12th-century list of kings gives him a reign length of four weeks, though one manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says he died only 16 days after his father. [6] However, that he ruled is not accepted by all historians. Also, it is unclear whether—if Ælfweard was declared king—it was over the whole kingdom or of Wessex only.