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1000 Years of English Coins CANUTE (CNUT THE GREAT) EDWARD THE CONFESSOR WILLIAM I (The Conqueror) RICHARD I (The Lionheart) EDWARD I 1016 – 1035 10421066 1066 1087 1189 1199 1272 1307 Canute became king of all England following Following the death of Harthacanute, Also known as William the Bastard (but not to Richard was the third son of Henry II. By the Edward Longshanks was a statesman, lawyer the death of Edmund II. The son of Sweyn Edward restored the rule of the House of his face!), he was the illegitimate son of age of 16, he was leading his own army putting and soldier. He formed the Model Parliament Forkbeard, he ruled well and gained favor Wessex to the English throne. A deeply Robert the Devil, whom he succeeded as Duke down rebellions in France. Although crowned in 1295, bringing the knights, clergy and with his English subjects by sending most of pious and religious man, he presided of Normandy in 1035. William came to King of England, Richard spent all but 6 nobility, as well as the Lords and Commons his army back to Denmark. over the rebuilding of Westminster England from Normandy, claiming that his months of his reign abroad, preferring to use together for the first time. Aiming at a united Abbey, leaving much of the running of second cousin Edward the Confessor had the taxes from his kingdom to fund his various Britain, he defeated the Welsh chieftains and In 1017, Canute married Emma of Normandy, the country to Earl Godwin and his son promised him the throne, and defeated armies and military ventures. He was the created his eldest son Prince of Wales. He was the widow of Aethelred II and divided Harold. Edward died childless, eight Harold II at the Battle of Hastings on 14th leading Christian commander during the known as the 'Hammer of the Scots' for his England into the four earldoms of East Anglia, days after the building work on October 1066. In 1085 the Domesday Survey Third Crusade. On his way back from victories in Scotland and brought the famous Mercia, Northumbria and Wessex. Perhaps Westminster Abbey had finished. With was begun and all of England was recorded, so Palestine, Richard was captured and held for coronation stone from Scone to Westminster. inspired by his pilgrimage to Rome in 1027, no natural successor, England was faced William knew exactly what his new kingdom ransom. The amount paid for his safe return When his first wife Eleanor died, he escorted legend has it that he wanted to demonstrate to with a power struggle for control of the contained and how much tax he could raise in almost bankrupted the country. Richard died her body from Grantham in Lincolnshire to his subjects that as a king he was not a god, he throne. order to fund his armies. William died at from an arrowwound, far from the kingdom Westminster, setting up Eleanor Crosses at ordered the tide not to come in, knowing he Rouen after a fall from his horse while that he so rarely visited. He had no children. every resting place. He died on the way to would fail. Succeeded by Harold II, and William I besieging the French city of Nantes. He is fight Robert Bruce. buried at Caen. Succeeded by John, Henry III, and Edward I Succeeded by Harold Harefoot, Harthacnut, and He was succeeded by Edward II and Edward III Edward the Confessor Succeeded by William II, Henry I, Stephen, Henry II and Richard I EDWARD III RICHARD III HENRY VIII MARY I ELIZABETH I 1327 1377 1483 1485 1509 1547 1553 1558 15581603 Son of Edward II, he was a bold warrior and Brother of Edward IV. Responsible for many reforms, The best known fact about Henry VIII is that Daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth astute ruler. He reigned for 50 years after including the courts and the right to bail. Stories of he had six wives. In succession, they were: Aragon. A devout Catholic, she married Philip was a remarkable woman, learned and wise. By wresting the crown from his mother and her his unpopularity, and that he arranged the Divorced, Beheaded, Died: Divorced, of Spain. Mary attempted to enforce the the end of her life she could speak English, lover at age seventeen. His ambition to murder of his nephews in the tower are the Beheaded, Survived. His first wife was wholesale reconversion of England to Latin, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Greek, Welsh, conquer Scotland and France plunged creation of his successor. In 1485 Henry Catherine of Aragon, his brother’s widow, Catholicism. She carried this out with the Cornish, Scottish and Irish. She was popular England into the Hundred Years War. The two Richmond, descendant of John of Gaunt, whom he divorced after 24 years to marry utmost severity. The Protestant bishops, with the people and chose capable advisors: great victories at Crecy and Poitiers in France father of Henry IV, landed in west Wales, Anne Boleyn. This divorce caused the split Latimer, Ridley and Archbishop Cranmer Raleigh, Hawkins, the Cecils, Essex and more made Edward and his son, the Black Prince, gathering forces as he marched into England. from Rome and Henry declared himself the were among those burnt at the stake. The made England respected and feared. She the most renowned warriors in Europe, At the Battle of Bosworth Field in head of the Church Of England. The country was plunged into a bitter bloody bath, completed the conversion of England to though the war was very costly. The outbreak Leicestershire he defeated and killed Richard Dissolution of the Monasteries began in 1536 which is why she is remembered as Bloody Protestantism without much bloodshed of the 'Black Death' in 13481350 killed half in the last important battle in the Wars of the and Henry kept their money and awarded the Mary. She died childless in 1558 at Lambeth despite constant plots by Catholics to stop her. the population of England despite his efforts Roses. His body was brought to Leicester, properties to favored nobles. In an effort to Palace in London. The Spanish Armada was decisively defeated to control it. buried at Greyfriars, but went missing. have a son, Henry married four further wives, in 1588 and Raleigh's first Virginian colony Archaeological investigations in 2013 at a car but only one frail son was born, to Jane Succeeded by Elizabeth I was founded. It was a great time in English Succeeded by Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry park in Leicester revealed a skeleton, Seymour. He soon died and Henry’s two culture; Shakespeare was at the height of his VI, and Richard III confirmed by DNA to be that of Richard III. daughters came in succession to the throne: popularity and the entire period bears her His body was reinterred at Leicester Mary, daughter of Catherine of Aragon, and name: Elizabethan. Elizabeth was courted by Cathedral on 22nd March 2015. Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn. many, but never married. Succeeded by Henry VII and Henry VIII Succeeded by Edward VI and Mary I She was succeeded by James I JAMES I (and VI of Scotland) Charles II ANNE GEORGE III WILLIAM IV 1603 1625 1660 1685 1702 1714 1760 1820 1830 1837 James was the son of Mary Queen of Scots Son of Charles I, known as the Merry Second daughter of James II. She had 17 He was a grandson of George II and the first Known as the 'Sailor King' (for 10 years the and Lord Darnley. He was the first king to rule Monarch. After the collapse of the pregnancies but only one survived William, Englishborn and Englishspeaking monarch young Prince William, brother of George IV, over Scotland and England. James was more Protectorate following the flight of Oliver who died of smallpox aged 11. A staunch high since Queen Anne. His reign was one of served in the Royal Navy), he was the third of a scholar than a man of action. In 1605 the Cromwell’s son Richard to France, the Army church Protestant, Anne was 37 years old elegance and the age of some of the greatest son of George III. Before his accession he lived Gunpowder Plot was hatched: Guy Fawkes and Parliament asked Charles to take the when she came to the throne. A close friend of names in English literature Jane Austen, with a Mrs. Jordan, an actress, by whom he and his Catholic friends tried to blow up the throne. Although very popular he was a weak Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. Byron, Shelley, Keats and Wordsworth. It was had ten children. When Princess Charlotte Houses of Parliament, but were captured king and his foreign policy was inept. He had Sarah's husband, the Duke of Marlborough, also the time of great statesmen like Pitt and died, he had to marry in order to secure the before they could do so. James wrote a book 13 known mistresses, one of whom was Nell commanded the English Army, won a series of Fox and great captains like Wellington and succession. He married Adelaide of Saxe against witchcraft, but also set up the Gwyn. He fathered numerous illegitimate major battles, and gained the country more Nelson. In 1773 the 'Boston Tea Party' was the Coburg in 1818. He had two daughters but committee that translated the Bible into children but no heir to the throne. The Great influence in Europe than ever before.

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