List of English monarchs

This is a list of the Kings and Queens of the Kingdom of England from 924 until England and Scotland joined together in 1707.

First kings

See also: List of monarchs of Wessex

• Athelstan (924–939)
• Edmund I (939–946)
• Edred (946–955)
• Edwy the Fair (955–959)
• Edgar the Peaceable (959–975)
• St Edward the Martyr (975–978)
• Ethelred the Unready (978 – 1013, 1014 – 1016)
• Edmund Ironside (1016)

Danish Kings

• Sweyn Forkbeard (1013–1014)
• Canute the Great (1016–1035)
• Harold Harefoot (1035–1040)
• Harthacanute (1040–1042)

House of Wessex Restoration

• St Edward the Confessor (1042–1066)
• Harold Godwinson (1066)
• Edgar Ætheling (1066) (uncrowned)

Normans

In 1066, William, Duke of Normandy invaded England. He defeated King Harold II and became King.

• William the Conqueror (1066–1087)
• William II (1087–1100)
• Henry I (1100–1135)
• Stephen (1135–1154)

Plantagenets

Angevins

Edward III as he was portrayed in the late 16th century.

• Empress Matilda (1141)
• Henry II (1154–1189)
• Richard I, the Lionheart (1189–1199)
• John (1199–1216)
• Henry III (1216–1272)
• Edward I (1272–1307)
• Edward II (1307–1327) (deposed, died 1327)
• Edward III (1327–1377)
• Richard II (1377–1399) (deposed, died 1400)

Lancastrians

• Henry IV (1399–1413)
• Henry V (1413–1422)
• Henry VI (1422–1461 and 1470–1471)

Yorkists

• Edward IV (1461–1470 and 1471–1483)
• Edward V (uncrowned) (1483) (deposed 1483 possibly assassinated)
• Richard III (1483–1485)

Tudors

The Tudors were from Wales. In 1536, Wales became part of England. England had controlled Wales since 1284.

• Henry VII (1485–1509)
• Henry VIII (1509–1547)
• Edward VI (1547–1553)
• Jane (uncrowned) (1553) (deposed, beheaded 1554)
• Mary I (1553–1558)
• Elizabeth I (1558–1603)

Stuarts

The Stuarts were also Kings of Scotland, with which kingdom England was in personal, but not Legal union until 1707.

• James I (1603–1625), also from 1567 King James VI of Scotland
• Charles I (1625–1649), also King of Scotland

Interregnum

There was a civil war in England from 1642 until 1652. In 1649, King Charles I was executed and England became a Commonwealth. In 1653 Oliver Cromwell made himself Lord Protector and so England became a protectorate. Cromwell died in 1658 and his son, Richard, became Lord Protector. In 1660 power was given back to the Monarchy.

Stuarts (restored)

• Charles II (1660–1685), also King of Scotland (backdated the start of his reign to 1649)
• James II (1685–1688) (deposed, died 1701), also King James VII of Scotland
• William III (1689–1702) and Mary II (1689–1694), as co-monarchs, also King and Queen of Scotland
• Anne (1702–1714), though the English throne was replaced with that of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707

In 1707, England and Scotland joined together. For Kings and Queens after 1707, see British monarchs.