English monarchs

The information used here is derived from the third edition of the Handbook of British Chronology. The Jacobite pretenders of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have been included in this list.

Saxon dynasty (1)

Ecgberht 

December 801 - July 839

Ĉŝelwulf 

July 839 - 13 January 858

Ĉŝelbald 

January 855   -  July 860

Ĉŝelberht 

July 860   -  865

Ĉŝelrĉd I 

late 865   -  23? April 871

Ĉlfrĉd [the Great] 

April 871   -  26 October 899

Eadweard I [the Elder] 

October 899   -  17 July 924

Ĉlfweard 

17 July 924   -  2 August 924

Ĉŝelstan 

4 September 924   -  27 October 939

Eadmund I 

29 November 939   -  26 May 946

Eadrĉd 16 

August 946   -  23 November 955

Eadwig 

26 January 956   -  1 October 959

Eadgar I 

late 959   -  8 July 975 

Eadweard II [the Martyr] 

July 975   -  18 March 978

Ĉŝelrĉd II [Unrĉd] (1) 

14 April 978   -  autumn 1013

Danish dynasty (1)

Sven [Forkbeard] 

autumn 1013   -  3 February 1014

Saxon dynasty (2)

Ĉŝelrĉd II [Unrĉd] (2) 

February 1014   -  23 April 1016

Eadmund II [Ironside] 

April 1016   -  30 November 1016

Danish dynasty (2)

Cnutr 

December 1016   -  12 November 1035

Saxon dynasty (3)

Harold I [Harefoot] 

25 November 1035   -  17 March 1040

Danish dynasty (3)

Harŝacnutr 

18 June 1040   -  8 June 1042

Saxon dynasty (4)

Eadweard III [the Confessor] 

June 1042   -  5 January 1066

Harold II [Godwinesson] 

6 January 1066   -  14 October 1066

Eadgar II [the Ĉŝeling] 

October 1066   -  December 1066

Norman dynasty

William I [the Conqueror] 

25 December 1066   -  9 September 1087

William II [Rufus] 

26 September 1087   -  2 August 1100

Henry I 

5 August 1100   -  1 December 1135

Stephen (1) 

22 December 1135   -  2 February 1141

Matilda 

8 April 1141   -  1 November 1141

Stephen (2) 

25 December 1141   -  25 October 1154

Plantagenet dynasty

Henry II 

19 December 1154   -  6 July 1189

Richard I [Cœur de Lion] 

3 September 1189   -  6 April 1199

John [Lackland] 

27 May 1199   -  19 October 1216

Louis 

late 1215   -  September 1217

Henry III

28 October 1216   -  16 November 1272

Edward I 

20 November 1272   -  7 July 1307

Edward II 

8 July 1307   -  20 January 1327

Edward III 

25 January 1327   -  21 June 1377

Richard II 

22 June 1377   -  29 September 1399

Lancaster dynasty (1)

Henry IV 

30 September 1399   -  20 March 1413

Henry V 

21 March 1413   -  31 August 1422

Henry VI (1) 

1 September 1422   -  4 March 1461

York dynasty (1)

Edward IV (1) 

4 March 1461   -  29 September 1470

Lancaster dynasty (2)

Henry VI (2) 

3 October 1470   -  11 April 1471

York dynasty (2)

Edward IV (2) 

11 April 1471   -  9 April 1483

Edward V 

9 April 1483   -  25 April 1483

Richard III 

26 April 1483   -  22 August 1485

Tudor dynasty

Henry VII 

22 August 1485   -  21 April 1509

Henry VIII 

22 April 1509   -  28 January 1547

Edward VI 

28 January 1547   -  6 July 1553

Jane [Grey] 

6 July 1553   -  19 July 1553

Mary I 

19 July 1553   -  17 November 1558

Philip 

25 July 1554   -  17 November 1558

Elizabeth I 

17 November 1558   -  24 March 1603

Stuart dynasty (1)

James I 

24 March 1603   -  27 March 1625

Charles I 

27 March 1625   -  30 January 1649

<Interregnum> 

17 March 1649   -  5 May 1660

Charles II 

29 May 1660   -  6 February 1685

James II (fled London 11 December 1688) 

6 February 1685   -  16 September 1702

<Interregnum> 

11 December 1688   -  12 February 1689

William III [of Orange] 

13 February 1689   -  8 March 1702

Mary II 

13 February 1689   -  27 December 1694

Anne 

8 March 1702   -  1 August 1714

James III (abdicated 23 December 1743) 

16 September 1702   -  1 January 1766

Hanoverian dynasty (1)

George I 

1 August 1714   -  11 June 1727

George II 

11 June 1727   -  25 October 1760

Stuart dynasty (2)

Charles III (appointed ‘regent’ 23 December 1743) 

24 September 1745   -  30 January 1788

Hanoverian dynasty (2)

George III 

25 October 1760   -  29 January 1820

Stuart dynasty (3)

Henry IX 

30 January 1788   -  13 July 1807

Hanoverian dynasty (3)

George IV 

29 January 1820   -  26 June 1830

William IV 

26 June 1830   -  20 June 1837

Victoria 

20 June 1837   -  22 January 1901

Saxe-Coburg and Gotha dynasty

Edward VII 

22 January 1901   -  6 May 1910

Windsor dynasty

George V 

6 May 1910   -  20 January 1936

Edward VIII 

20 January 1936   -  11 December 1936

George VI 

11 December 1936   -  6 February 1952

Elizabeth II 

6 February 1952   -

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