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Plantagenet Somerset Fry | 96 pages | 31 May 2011 | Dorling Kindersley Ltd | 9781405373678 | English | , United Kingdom Kings and Queens of Britain | Britannica

Goodreads helps you track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Kings & Queens of England and Scotland for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Offers brief profiles of each British monarch, and looks at events, places, objects, and rituals associated with the British throne. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 2. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. This book which really acts as a guide gives a summary of the British and Scottish monarchies from the beginning of history to the present. It includes the royal such as the Plantagenets, the Lancasters, the Yorks, the Tudors, the Stuarts, and the Hanoverians, as well as the Windsors. At the start of each section that introduces a new royal house, there is a family tree to illustrate how the crown was passed down in succession to the next person in line for Kings & Queens of England and Scotland throne. Then for each Ki This book which really acts as a guide gives a summary of the British and Scottish monarchies from the beginning of history to the present. I absolutely loved this book! Since this book contains an overview of them I feel like I now have the proper foundation to build on which will allow me to search for other books on some of the individuals that I read about that sparked my interest the most. I just love a book that gets me excited about history! A really good reference book dating all the way back and the early Saxon Kings. First sentence: The Romans ended direct rule of England in the fifth century, and by the early seventh century the country had split into seven warring kingdoms. We've got one spread on Early Saxon Kings & Queens of England and Scotland. One spread on . One page on Saxons and Vikings. One page on Canute. The other chapters cover the kings and queens the enthusiast is probably already familiar with to some degree. Each is introduced or summarized briefly in a two-page spread before introducing the individual monarch. There will be some readers anxious about what he says about III. After all, a measure of a book--for some--is what they have to say about one king. Richard III was king for barely two years, but once he was dead, historians, clerics, and Kings & Queens of England and Scotland playwrights fell over themselves to blacken his name. Most of the propaganda was designed to serve the Tudor dynasty, which began when VII's army defeated and killed Richard at the Battle of Bosworth in However, in more recent times, historians have questioned whether Richard III really deserves his evil reputation. It is concise. It is readable. It is filled with charts and illustrations and oh-the-bullet-points. It's just packed cover-to-cover with details. Now, that being said, this one is an overview. Whole books--long books--have been written about individual monarchs. This will be just a starting place for the real enthusiast, or perhaps a refresher course. Some might call this a reference book, a guidebook. I see it as an absorbing cover-to-cover read, as compelling perhaps as a bestselling thriller or mystery. A few years ago, I was completely Kings & Queens of England and Scotland with the British children's program, Horrible Histories. This book reminded me of the joys Kings & Queens of England and Scotland thrills of watching the show. Though is primarily focused on the monarchs of England and successor unions with each ruler getting their own individual article from to-present, while the Scottish monarchs were only briefly covered in comparison. Not all the information given in monarch articles is correct, at least to those readers well versed in history, but overall the book is a good reference book. Apr 11, Susan This book is great!!! Sep 22, Nattapan rated it liked it Shelves: english-non-fiction. A good but very short reference guide for British monarchs. A fantastic primer on British royalty. Great book! Okay, okay, I Kings & Queens of England and Scotland. I just love it Kings & Queens of England and Scotland to pieces. In order to become king, the man either had his own nephews put Great book! In order to become king, the man either had his own nephews put to death or The former explanation that someone else actually did the dirty deeds on Richard's regal behalf is of Kings & Queens of England and Scotland more likely, but still, those poor little lads just up and "disappeared" while in THE man's custody -- and nobody involved at the time ever even so much as bothered to offer any sort of plausible public explanation for their eerily abrupt and quite inexplicable sudden absence. That's right, folks, "zero, zip, zilch, nada. The regal Lost Boys, the former heirs to the English throne, were just plain Vanished without a trace; lock, stock, and both princely barrels, both at the very same time! Not if you're you happen to be a card-carrying member of the vaunted, revisionist history "Richard III Society," it ain't. So, go ahead, forget all about those sniveling little brats who apparently eked out their last sad days in that nasty, bloody I mean, now ever so picturesque and touristy Tower! And besides, it was nothing especially personal on Richard's part, was it? I mean, a whole lot of British royalty, and various others who'd fallen from grace, ended up spending their last days in "Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress. But then Not to mention that that just happens to be the last place the boys are known to have been seen alive But forget about all that, will ya? Because the hard, cold, sad Truth of it all is that we may never know for absolute sure what really happened to those two ill-fated young royals. But then, just because, insomebody suddenly stumbles upon Richard III's wicked old bones although he was actually only 32 when he got ever so unceremoniously hacked up on the field at the Battle of Bosworthlong buried in obscurity under the parking lot of Greyfriars Church in , it doesn't mean the SOB was suddenly a blinkered saint, now does it? Maybe it does. But also, probably Not by ANY stretch of revisionist history imagination, he wasn't. No way, Jose. I mean, although you won't find any of the following in this particular book, if we're going to be brutally honest and really dig just a wee bit deeper, we may some of us, anywayjust might therefore be forced to admit that Edward I, while busily making a name for himself as the infamous "Hammer of the Scots," in a single instance because believe me, he did a whole lot more - and not just in Scotlandmurdered over 8, men, women, AND children at the end of just one single military campaign -- until the desperately pleading Roman Catholic clergymen of pre-Protestant Britain FINALLY got the vicious psychopath to FINALLY cease and desist his vengeful, whole-scale butchery. But then, Scottish king himself was, sadly, no the greatest sparer of civilian lives either - English OR Scottish - in his quite literally bloody quest to maintain his oft-contested kingship. And hey, that's just how things were often done way back then, right? All across the world, too, and most definitely not just in little old but now most certainly great Great Britain. In feudal Japan, in fact, if you dared stand against the wrong , you'd have expected to have your head summarily removed. And your wife's head, too. And your children's heads, too. Why, indeed. Oh well. Kings & Queens of England and Scotland just a pretty little picture book filled with cherry picked historical facts, after all. So, best to not get too bent out of shape about the depiction of a single English monarch, eh? Can't have it all, now can we? List of monarchs in the British Isles

The monarch of Scotland was the head of state of the . The distinction between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of the is rather the product of later medieval myth and confusion from a change in nomenclature i. The Kingdom of the Picts just became known as in Scottish Gaelicwhich later became known in Scots and English as Scotland ; the terms are retained in both languages to this day. By the late 11th century at the very latest, Scottish kings were using the term rex Scottorumor King of Scots, to refer to themselves in . Thus Queen Anne became the last monarch of the ancient kingdoms of Scotland and England and the first of Great Britain, although the Kings & Queens of England and Scotland had shared a monarch since see . Kings & Queens of England and Scotland had a second in England ten years later. Royal Standard of the King of Scots. The reign of Kenneth MacAlpin begins what is often called the House of Alpinan entirely modern concept. The descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin were divided into two branches; the crown would alternate between the two, the death of a king from one branch often hastened by war or assassination by a from the other. Malcolm II was the last king of the ; in his reign, he successfully crushed all opposition to him and, having no sons, was able to pass the crown to his daughter's son, Duncan I, who inaugurated the House of . Evidence of his reign is unclear. He may have never actually been king and if he was, he was co-king with . Duncan succeeded to the throne as the Kings & Queens of England and Scotland grandson of Malcolm II. He was also the heir-general of Malcolm I, as his paternal grandfather, Duncan of Atholl was the third son of Malcolm I. The was therefore closely related to the House of Alpin. Duncan was killed in battle by , who had a long and relatively successful reign. In a series of battles between andDuncan's son Malcolm III defeated and killed Macbeth and Macbeth's stepson and Kings & Queens of England and Scotland , claiming the throne. Edgar triumphed, sending his uncle and brother to monasteries. After the reign of Kings & Queens of England and Scotland I, the Scottish throne was passed according to rules of primogenituremoving from father to son, or where not possible, brother to brother. The status of Margaret, Maid of Norwayas a Scottish monarch is debated by historians. One of her biographers, Archie Duncanargues that because she was "never inaugurated, she was never queen of Scots". Another, Norman H. Reid, insists that Margaret was "accepted as queen" by her contemporaries but that, owing to the lack of Inauguration, "[her] reign never started". The death of Margaret of Norway began a two-year in Scotland caused by a succession crisis. With her death, the descent of William I became extinct and there was no obvious heir. Thirteen candidates presented themselves; the most prominent were John Balliolgreat-grandson of William I's younger brother David of Huntingdon, and Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of AnnandaleDavid of Huntingdon's grandson. The Scottish invited to arbitrate the claims. He did so but forced the Scots to swear allegiance to him as overlord. Eventually, it was decided that should become king. He proved weak and incapable and, inwas forced to abdicate by Edward I who then attempted to annex Scotland into the . For ten years, Scotland had no king. The Scots, however, refused to tolerate English rule. Shortly after inRobert was crowned King of Scots at Scone. Robert Bruce was then hunted down for his crime of murder, and subsequently, he escaped to the outskirt islands, leaving the country completely leaderless, and the English invaded once again. Bruce would return a year later and gain support for his cause. His energy, and the corresponding replacement of the vigorous Edward I with his weaker son Edward II inallowed Scotland to free itself from English rule. At the inthe Scots routed the English, and by the English had agreed by treaty to accept . Robert's son, David, acceded to the throne as a child. The English renewed their war with Scotland, and David was forced to flee the kingdom by Edward Balliolson of King John, who managed to get himself crowned — and to give away Scotland's southern counties to England before being driven out again. David spent much of his life in exile, first in freedom with his ally, France, and then in prison in England. He was only able to return to Scotland in Upon his death, childless, inthe House of Bruce came to an end. was the son of King John Balliolwho had himself ruled for four years following his election in the Great Cause. Following his abdication, John Balliol lived out his life in obscurity in PicardyFrance. During the minority of David II, Edward Balliol seized the opportunity to assert his claim to the throne, and backed by the English, he defeated the forces of David's regency and was himself crowned king at Scone in He was quickly defeated by loyalist forces and sent back to England. With English support, he would mount two more attempts to seize the throne again, in andeach time his actual control of the throne was brief before being sent back to England, for the last time in When David returned from exile in to rule in his own right, Kings & Queens of England and Scotland lost most of his support. When David II was captured Kings & Queens of England and Scotland battle inEdward made one last attempt to seize the Kings & Queens of England and Scotland for himself but had little support and the Kings & Queens of England and Scotland fizzled before it gained much traction. In he renounced all claims to the throne. Robert the Stewart was a grandson of Robert I by the latter's daughter, Marjorie. Having been born inhe was older than his uncle, David II. Consequently, he was at his accession a middle-aged man, already 55, and unable to reign vigorously, a problem also faced by his son Robert III, who also ascended in middle age at 53 inand suffered lasting damage in a horse-riding accident. These two were followed by a series of regencies, caused by the youth of the succeeding five boy kings. Consequently, the Stewart era saw periods of royal inertia, during which the nobles usurped power from the crown, followed by periods of by the monarch, during which he or she would attempt to address the issues created by their minority and the long-term effects of previous reigns. Governing Scotland became increasingly difficult, as the powerful nobility became increasingly intractable. James I's attempts to curb the disorder of the realm Kings & Queens of England and Scotland in his assassination. James III was killed in a civil war between himself and the nobility, led by his son. When James IV, who had governed sternly and suppressed the aristocrats, died in the , his wife , who had been nominated regent for their young son James V, was unseated by noble feuding, and James V's wife, Mary of Guise, succeeded in ruling Scotland during the regency for her young daughter Mary I only by dividing and conquering the noble factions, distributing French bribes with a liberal hand. Finally, Mary I, the daughter of James V, found herself unable to govern Scotland faced with the Kings & Queens of England and Scotland of the aristocracy and the intransigence of the population, who favored Calvinism and disapproved of her Catholicism. She was forced to abdicate, and fled to England, where she was imprisoned in various and manor houses for eighteen years and finally executed for against the English queen . Thereafter, although the two crowns of England and Scotland remained separate, the monarchy was based chiefly in England. Charles I, James's son, found himself faced with the Civil War. The resultant conflict lasted eight years and ended in his execution. The English then decreed their monarchy to be at an end. He ruled until when the armies of occupied Scotland and drove him into exile. With the Scottish Restorationthe Stuarts became Kings of Scotland once more but Scotland's rights were not respected. His Catholicism was not tolerated, and he was driven out of England after three years. In his place came his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange, the ruler of the Dutch Republic. An attempt to establish a Scottish colonial empire through the Darien Schemein rivalry to that of England, failed, leaving the Scottish nobles who financed the venture for their profit bankrupt. Anne had multiple children but none of these survived her, leaving as her heir her half-brother, James, then living in exile in France. Many Scots preferred Prince James, who as a Stuart was a Scot by ancestry, and threatened to break the Union of Crowns between England and Scotland by choosing him for themselves. To preserve the union, the English elaborated a plan whereby the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England would merge into a single Kingdom, the Kingdom of Great Britainruled by a common monarch, and with a single Parliament. Both national agreed to this the Scots albeit reluctantly, motivated primarily by the national financesand some subterfuge as a total majority of signatories were needed to ratify the Scottish parliament's assent, bribes, and payments. Thereafter, although monarchs continued to rule over the nation of Scotland, Kings & Queens of England and Scotland did so first as monarchs of Great Britainand from of the United Kingdom. For the British monarchs see List of British monarchs. He would continue to do so all his life, even after the Kingdoms of England and Scotland were ended by their merging as the Kingdom of Great Britain. Ina year after the death of his sister, Queen Anne, and the accession of their cousin George of Hanover, James landed in Scotland and attempted to claim the throne. He failed and was forced to flee back to the Continent. A second attempt by his son, Charles on behalf of his father, inalso failed. Both James's children died without legitimate issue, bringing the Stuart family to an end. Afterthe Jacobite claims passed first to the —then to the Modenese branch of the -Lorraine —and finally to the since The current heir is FranzKings & Queens of England and Scotland of Bavaria. Neither he nor any of his predecessors since have pursued their claim. The Acts of Union were twin Parliamentary Acts passed during and by the and the Parliament of Scotlandputting into effect the terms of the Treaty of Unionagreed on 22 Julyfollowing prolonged negotiation between Queen Anne's Commissioners representing both parliaments. Scotland and England had shared a common monarch since the Union of the Crowns in when the Scottish king James VI succeeded to the English throne. Although described as a Union of Crowns, before the Acts of Union ofthe crowns of the two separate kingdoms had rested on the same head. Three unsuccessful attempts in, and were made to unite the two kingdoms by Acts of Parliament, but it was not until the early 18th century that the idea had the will of both political establishments to succeed, thereby bringing the two separate states together under a single parliament as well as a single monarch. That we shall preserve and keep inviolated the Rights and Rents, with all just Privileges of the Crown of Scotland, neither shall we transfer nor alienate the same; that we shall forbid and repress in all Estates and Degrees, Kings & Queens of England and Scotland, Oppression and all kind of Wrong. And we shall command and procure, that Justice and Equity in all Judgments be kept to all Persons without exception, us the Lord and Father of all Mercies shall be merciful to us. And we shall be careful to root out all Heretics and Enemies to the true Worship of God, that shall be convicted by the true Kirk of God, of the aforesaid Crimes, out of our Lands and Empire of Scotland. And we faithfully affirm the Things above-written by our solemn Oath. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kings and queens that ruled Scotland. This article is about Scottish monarchs until Royal coat of arms. Idealised statue of Robert the Bruce. Main article: Coat of arms of Scotland. See also: House of Dunkeld. GENUKI: Kings and Queens of England and Scotland, UK and Ireland

There have been 61 monarchs of England and Britain spread over a period of approximately years. After returning from exile at the court of Charlemagne inhe regained his kingdom of . Following his conquest of inKings & Queens of England and Scotland controlled all of England south of the Humber. A year before he died aged almost 70, he defeated a combined force of Danes and Cornish at Hingston Down in Cornwall. He is buried at in Hampshire. A highly religious man, Athelwulf travelled to Rome with his son Alfred to see the Pope in Pictured above: Aethelwulf. He was crowned at Kingston-upon-Thames in southwest London, after forcing his father to abdicate upon his return from pilgrimage to Rome. He is buried at Sherbourne Abbey in Dorset. Like his brother and his father, Aethelbert pictured to the right was crowned at Kingston-upon-Thames. Shortly after his succession a Danish army landed and sacked Winchester before being defeated by the Saxons. He is buried at Sherborne Abbey. His reign was one long struggle with the Danes who had occupied inestablishing the Viking kingdom of Yorvik. When the Danish Army moved south Wessex itself was threatened, and so together with his brother Alfred, they fought several battles with the Vikings at Reading, Ashdown and Basing. Aethelred suffered serious injuries during the next major battle at Meretun in Hampshire; he died of his wounds shortly after at Witchampton in Dorset, where he was buried. He had proven himself to be a strong leader in many battles, and as a wise ruler managed to secure five uneasy years of peace with the Danes, before Kings & Queens of England and Scotland attacked Wessex again in To secure his hard won boundaries Alfred founded a permanent army and an embryonic Royal Navy. To secure his place in history, Kings & Queens of England and Scotland began the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. Edward retook southeast England and the Midlands from the Danes. Following the death of his sister Aethelflaed of MerciaEdward unites the kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia. The following year, Edward is killed in a battle against the Welsh near Chester. His body is returned to Winchester for burial. In what is said to be one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on British soil, Athelstan defeated a combined army of Scots, Celts, Danes and Vikings, claiming the title of King of all Britain. The battle saw for the first time individual Anglo-Saxon kingdoms being brought together to create a single and unified England. Athelstan is buried in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. EDMUND — Succeeded his half-bother Athelastan as king at the tender age of 18, having already fought alongside him at the Batlle of Brunanburh two years earlier. He re-established Anglo-Saxon control over , which had fallen back under Scandinavian rule following the Kings & Queens of England and Scotland of Athelstan. Aged just 25, and whilst celebrating the feast of Augustine, Edmund was stabbed by a robber in his royal hall at Pucklechurch near Bath. His two sons, and Edgar, were perhaps considered too young to become kings. He followed in the family tradition of defeating Norsemen, expelling the last Scandinavian King of YorkEric Bloodaxe, in A deeply religious man, suffered a serious stomach ailment that would eventually prove fatal. Eadred died in his early 30s, unmarried and without an heir, at in Somerset. He is buried in Winchester. Perhaps unimpressed by the interruption, Eadwig had exiled to France. Eadwig died in when he was just 20, the circumstances of his death are not recorded. Following his carefully planned by Dunstan coronation in Bath inEdgar marched his army to Chester, to be met by six kings of Britain. The kings, including the King of Scots, King of Strathclyde and various princes of Walesare said to have signalled their allegiance to Edgar by rowing him in his state barge across the River Dee. Although supported by Archbishop Dunstan, his claim to the throne was contested by supporters of his much younger half-brother Aethelred. The resulting dispute between rival factions within the church and nobility Kings & Queens of England and Scotland led to civil war in England. He died just 5 weeks later. Following the death of his father, he was chosen king by the good folk of London. Following his defeat at the Battle of Assandun, Edmund made a pact with Canute to divide the kingdom between them. This treaty ceded control of all of England, with the exception of Wessex, to Canute. It also stated that when one of the kings died the other would take all of England… Edmund died later that year, probably assassinated. The son of , he ruled well and gained favour with his English subjects by sending most of his army back to Denmark. Perhaps inspired by his pilgrimage to Rome inlegend has it that he wanted to demonstrate to his subjects that as a king he was not a god, he ordered the tide not to come in, knowing this would fail. Harold was the illegitimate son of Canute; he claimed the English crown on the death Kings & Queens of England and Scotland his father whilst his half-brother Harthacanute, the rightful heir, was in Denmark fighting to protect his Danish kingdom. Harold died three years into his reign, just weeks before Harthacanute was due to invade England with an army of Danes. He was buried in Abbey before Harthacanute had his body dug up, beheaded, and thrown into the Thames. His bits were later gathered and re-buried at St. Clement Danes in London. Harthacanute died at a wedding whilst toasting the health of the bride; he was aged Kings & Queens of England and Scotland 24 and was the last Danish king to rule England. A deeply pious and religious man, he presided over the rebuilding of Westminster Abbeyleaving much of the running of the country to Earl Godwin and his son Harold. Edward died childless, eight days after the building work on had finished. With no natural successor, England was faced with a power struggle for control of the throne. The election result failed to meet with the approval of one William, of Normandy, who claimed that his relative Edward had promised the throne to him several years earlier. Harold defeated an invading Norwegian army at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in , then marched south to confront William of Normandy who had landed his forces in . William came to England from Normandy, claiming that his second cousin had Kings & Queens of England and Scotland him the throne, and defeated Harold II at the Battle of Hastings on 14th October In the Domesday Survey was begun and all of England was recorded, so William knew exactly what his new kingdom contained and how much he could raise in order to fund his Kings & Queens of England and Scotland. William died at Rouen after Kings & Queens of England and Scotland fall from his horse whilst besieging the French city of Nantes. He is buried at Caen. He never married and was killed in the New Forest by a stray arrow whilst out hunting, maybe accidentally, or possibly shot deliberately on the instructions of his younger brother Henry. Walter Tyrrell, one of the hunting Kings & Queens of England and Scotland, was blamed for the deed. Well educated, he founded a zoo at Woodstock in Oxfordshire to study animals. His two sons were drowned in the White Ship so his daughter Matilda was made his successor. She was married to Geoffrey Plantagenet. When Henry died of food poisoning, the Council considered a woman unfit to rule and so offered the throne to Stephen, a grandson of William I. A decade of civil war known as The Anarchy ensued when Matilda invaded from Anjou in A brilliant soldier, he extended his French lands until he ruled most of France. He laid the foundation of the English Jury System and raised new from the landholders to pay for a force. His sons turned against him, even his favourite John. By the age of 16, he was leading his own army putting down rebellions in France. Although crowned King of England, Richard spent all but 6 months of his reign abroad, preferring to use the taxes from his kingdom to fund his various armies and military ventures. He was the leading Christian commander during the Third . On his way back from Palestine, Richard was captured and held for ransom. The amount paid for his safe return almost bankrupt the country. Richard died from an arrow-wound, far from the kingdom that he so rarely visited. He had no children. Short and fat, he was jealous of his dashing brother Richard I whom he succeeded. He was cruel, self-indulgent, selfish and avaricious, and the raising of punitive taxes united all the elements of society, clerical and lay, against him. The Pope excommunicated him. On 15th June at Runnymede the compelled John to sign Magna Cartathe Great Charter, which reinstated the rights of all his subjects. John died — from — a fugitive from all his enemies. Brought up by priests he became devoted to church, art and learning. Henry was the greatest of all patrons of medieval architecture and ordered the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey in the Gothic style. He formed the inbringing the , clergy and nobility, as well as the Lords and Commons together for the first time. Aiming at a united Britain, he defeated the Welsh chieftains and created his eldest son Prince of . When Kings & Queens of England and Scotland first wife died, he escorted her body from in Lincolnshire to Westminster, setting up Eleanor Crosses at every resting place. He died on the way to fight Robert Bruce. He was beaten by the Scots at the Battle of Bannockburn in Edward was deposed Kings & Queens of England and Scotland held captive in Berkeley in Gloucestershire. His wife joined her lover Mortimer in deposing him: by their orders he was murdered in Berkley Castle — as legend has it, by having a red-hot poker thrust up his anus! The two great victories at Crecy and Poitiers made Edward and his son, the Princethe most renowned warriors in Europe, however the war was very expensive. In came the Peasants Revoltled by Wat Tyler. The rebellion was put down with great severity. The Kings & Queens of England and Scotland death of his first wife completely unbalanced Richard and his extravagance, acts of revenge and tyranny turned his subjects against him. Richard was murdered, probably by starvation, in in Henry spent most of his 13 year reign defending himself against plots, rebellions and assassination attempts. Back in England, Henry had great difficulty in maintaining the support of both the clergy and Parliament and between the Percy family launched a series of rebellions against him.