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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.
This is the family tree for monarchs of England (and Wales after 1282) from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth I of England. The House of Wessex family tree precedes this family tree and the family tree of the British royal family follows it. (see List_of_monarchs_of_Wessex) As to the medieval histories of Scotland and Wales:
Earl of Wessex: Edward the Confessor c. 1003 –1066 King of the English r. 1042–1066: Gruoch of Scotland fl. 1020–1054: Macbeth 1005–1057 King of Alba r. 1040–1057: Duncan I c. 1001 –1040 King of Alba r. 1034–1040: Edward the Exile 1016–1057: Edith of Wessex c. 1025 –1075: Harold II Godwinson c. 1022 –1066 King of the English ...
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 ...
Lists of monarchs in the British Isles are lists of monarchs that have reigned over the various kingdoms and other states that have existed in the British Isles throughout recorded history. They include monarchs of Britain as a whole, and monarchs of states that covered part or whole of what are now England , Ireland , Scotland , Wales and the ...
3rd Duke of York 1411–1460: Edward IV 4th Duke of York 1442–1483 r. 1461–1470, 1471–1483: Edmund Earl of Rutland 1443–1460: George Plantagenet Duke of Clarence 1449–1478: Richard III 1452–1485 r. 1483–1485: Elizabeth of York 1444–c. 1503: John de la Pole Duke of Suffolk 1442–1492: Henry VII 1457–1509 r. 1485–1509 ...
Edith of Wessex: Godwin, Earl of Wessex Gytha Thorkelsdóttir: 1029 23 January 1045 4 January 1066 Husband's death: 19 December 1075 Westminster Abbey: Edward the Confessor: Ealdgyth: Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia Ælfgifu Unknown, fl. c. 1057: January 1066 Not crowned: 14 October 1066 Husband's death: 1066 Not known Harold II Godwinson