Various families (all interrelated) have given England rulers since that time, including the houses of Anjou, Lancaster, York, Tudor, Stuart, Hanover, and Windsor. After the English Civil War (1642-1648) the country was briefly governed by Oliver Cromwell and then his son Richard.
In 1707 the English and Scottish kingdoms were formally merged into the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Over the last several centuries the powers of the British monarchy have been gradually reduced, and they are now little more than figureheads.
Name | Years | |
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Æðelbald | 858-860 | |
Æðelbert | 860-865 | |
Æðelred I | 865-871 | |
Æðelred II the Unready | 978-1013; 1014-1016 | |
Æthelric of Bernicia | 568-572 | |
Æðelstan | 924-939 | |
Æthelweard of East Anglia | 8xx-854 | |
Æðelwulf | 839-858 | |
Alfred the Great | 871-899 | |
Anne | 1702-1714 | |
Beorhtric of Wessex | 786-802 | |
Canute the Great | 1016-1035 | |
Charles I | 1625-1649 | |
Charles II | 1660-1685 | |
Charles III | 2022- | |
Oliver Cromwell | 1653-1658 | |
Richard Cromwell | 1658-1659 | |
Eadred | 946-955 | |
Eadwig | 955-959 | |
Edgar the Peaceful | 959-975 | |
Edmund I the Magnificient | 939-946 | |
Edmund II Ironside | 1016 | |
Edward I Longshanks | 1272-1307 | |
Edward II | 1307-1327 | |
Edward III | 1327-1377 | |
Edward IV | 1461-1470; 1471-1483 | |
Edward the Confessor | 1042-1066 | |
Edward the Elder | 899-924 | |
Edward the Martyr | 975-978 | |
Edward V | 1483 | |
Edward VI | 1547-1553 | |
Edward VII | 1901-1910 | |
Edward VIII | 1936 | |
Egbert | 827-839 | |
Elizabeth I | 1558-1603 | |
Elizabeth II | 1952-2022 | |
George I | 1714-1727 | |
George II | 1727-1760 | |
George III | 1760-1820 | |
George IV | 1820-1830 | |
George V | 1910-1936 | |
George VI | 1936-1952 | |
Harold I Harefoot | 1035-1040 | |
Harold II | 1066 | |
Harthacnut | 1040-1042 | |
Henry I | 1100-1135 | |
Henry II Plantagenet | 1154-1189 | |
Henry III | 1216-1272 | |
Henry IV | 1399-1413 | |
Henry V | 1413-1422 | |
Henry VI | 1422-1461; 1470-1471 | |
Henry VII Tudor | 1485-1509 | |
Henry VIII | 1509-1547 | |
James I | 1603-1625 | |
James II | 1685-1688 | |
Jane | 1553 | |
John | 1199-1216 | |
Mary I Tudor | 1553-1558 | |
Mary II | 1689-1694 | |
Richard I the Lionheart | 1189-1199 | |
Richard II | 1377-1399 | |
Richard III | 1483-1485 | |
Stephen | 1135-1154 | |
Sven Forkbeard | 1013-1014 | |
Victoria | 1837-1901 | |
William I the Conqueror | 1066-1087 | |
William II Rufus | 1087-1100 | |
William III of Orange | 1689-1702 | |
William IV | 1830-1837 |