RULERS OF ENGLAND

House of Cerdic
* Athelstan                            924 - 939
* Edmund I "the Magnificent"           939 - 946
* Edred                                946 - 955
* Edwy                                 955 - 959
* Edgar                                959 - 975
* Edward "the Martyr"                  975 - 978
* Ethelred "the Unready"               978 - 1016
* Edmund "Ironside"                   1016

Danish Line
  Cnut                                1016 - 1035
  Harold I                            1035 - 1040
  Hardicanute (Harthacnut)            1040 - 1042

Saxon Line
* Edward "the Confessor"              1042 - 1066

House of Wessex
* Harold II (Godwinson)               1066

House of Normandy
* William I "The Conqueror            1066 - 1087
* William II                          1087 - 1100
* Henry I                             1100 - 1135

House of Blois
* Stephen                             1135 - 1154

House of Plantagenet
* Henry II "Curtmantel"               1154 - 1189
* Richard "The Lionheart"             1189 - 1199
* John "Lackland"                     1199 - 1216
* Henry III                           1216 - 1272
* Edward I "Hammer of the Scots"      1272 - 1307
* Edward II                           1307 - 1327
* Edward III                          1327 - 1377
* Richard II                          1377 - 1399

House of Lancaster
* Henry IV                            1399 - 1413
* Henry V                             1413 - 1422
* Henry VI                            1422 - 1461

House of York
* Edward IV                           1461 - 1483
* Edward V                            1483
* Richard III "Crookback"             1483 - 1485

House of Tudor
* Henry VII                           1485 - 1509
* Henry VIII                          1509 - 1547
* Edward VI                           1547 - 1553
* Jane  "The Nine Days Queen"         1553
* Mary I "Bloody Mary"                1553 - 1558
* Elizabeth I "The Virgin Queen"      1558 - 1603

House of Stuart
* James I                             1603 - 1625
* Charles I                           1625 - 1649  

Commonwealth (declared 1649) 
  Oliver Cromwell                     1653 - 1658, Lord Protector
  Richard Cromwell                    1658 - 1659

House of Stuart
* Charles II                          1660 - 1685
* James II                            1685 - 1688
* Mary II                             1689 - 1694

House of Nassau
* William III                         1689 - 1702

House of Stuart
* Anne                                1702 - 1714

House of Hanover
* George I                            1714 - 1727
* George II                           1727 - 1760
* George III "Farmer George"          1760 - 1820
* George IV "Prinny"                  1820 - 1830
* William IV "Silly Billy"            1830 - 1837
* Victoria                            1837 - 1901

House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (later Windsor)
* Edward VII                          1901 - 1910

House of Windsor
* George V "The Sailor King"          1910 - 1936
* Edward VIII "Our Smiling Prince"    1936
* George VI                           1936 - 1952
* Elizabeth II                        1952 -

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Last updated 13th May 2003