List of English monarchs

The King of England was the supreme head of state and head of government of the Kingdom of England. This is a list of the Kings and Queens of the Kingdom of England from 924 until England and Scotland joined together in 1707.

First kings 

 Athelstan (924–939)
 Edmund I (939–946)
 Edred (946–955)
 Edwy the Fair (955–959)
 Edgar the Peaceable (959–975)
 St Edward the Martyr (975–978)
 Ethelred the Unready (978–1013, 1014–1016)
 Sweyn Forkbeard (1013–1014) (from Denmark)
 Edmund Ironside (1016)

Danish kings 
 Cnut the Great  (1016–1035)
 Harold Harefoot (1037–1040)
 Harthacanute (1035–1037, 1040–1042)

Last Anglo-Saxon kings 
House of Wessex
 St Edward the Confessor (1042–1066)
House of Godwin
 Harold Godwinson (1066)

Normans 
In 1066, William, Duke of Normandy invaded England. He defeated King Harold Godwinson and became King.                                                                                                                                                                                

 William the Conqueror (1066–1087)                                                              
 William II (1087–1100)
 Henry I (1100–1135)
House of Blois 
 Stephen (1135–1154)

Plantagenets

Angevins 

 Empress Matilda (1141)
 Henry II (1154–1189)
 Richard I, the Lionheart (1189–1199)
 John (1199–1216)
 Henry III (1216–1272)
 Edward I (1272–1307)
 Edward II (1307–1327) (deposed)
 Edward III (1327–1377)
 Richard II (1377–1399) (deposed, died 1400)

Lancastrians 
 Henry IV (1399–1413)
 Henry V (1413–1422)
 Henry VI (1422–1461 and 1470–1471)

Yorkists 
 Edward IV (1461–1470 and 1471–1483)
 Edward V (uncrowned) (1483) (deposed 1483 possibly assassinated)
 Richard III (1483–1485)

Tudors 
The Tudors were from Wales. In 1536, Wales became part of England. England had controlled Wales since 1284.

 Henry VII (1485–1509)
 Henry VIII (1509–1547)
 Edward VI (1547–1553)
 Jane (uncrowned) (1553) (deposed, beheaded 1554)
 Mary I (1553–1558)
 Elizabeth I (1558–1603)

Stuarts 
The Stuarts were also kings of Scotland, with which kingdom England was in personal, but not legal union until 1707.

 James I (1603–1625), also from 1567 King James VI of Scotland
 Charles I (1625–1649), also King of Scotland

Interregnum 
The Civil War in England from 1642 until 1652 stemming from a growing enmity between King and Parliament, led to the execution of King Charles I in 1649. After the execution, England became a Commonwealth eventually led by Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector after successive interim governments failed and handed Cromwell power, and so England became a protectorate. Furthermore, both Ireland and Scotland became subjugated states under England and Cromwell at the end of the war. Cromwell died in 1658 and his son, Richard, became Lord Protector. This was short lived though as he failed to gain the support of the army and so the nation, in 1660 power was given back to the Monarchy and the King In Exile, Charles II, was invited back to England

Stuarts (restored) 
 Charles II (1660–1685), also King of Scotland (backdated the start of his reign to 1649)
 James II (1685–1688) (deposed, died 1701), also King James VII of Scotland
 William III (1689–1702) and Mary II (1689–1694), as co-monarchs, also King and Queen of Scotland
 Anne (1702–1714), though the English throne was replaced with that of the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707

Related pages
In 1707, England and Scotland joined together. For Kings and Queens after 1707, see British monarchs.

References 

Lists of British monarchs
monarchs