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English Monarchs
Stack #107028
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| son of tudor founder | Henry 8th |
| virgin queen | Elizabeth 1st |
| expanded economic empire, ministers fell from power: pitts, lord bute, lord north | George 3rd |
| empress of india also | Victoria |
| killed harold and the anglo-saxons at the battle of hastings | William 1st (conqueror) |
| started the English Civil War, last absolute british monarch | Charles 1st |
| duke of normandy from 1035 | William 1st (conqueror) |
| also king of scotland | James 1st |
| died at bosworth field ending the War of the Roses | Richard 3rd |
| representative of the modern ceremonial monarchy, sons chrales and andrew | Elizabeth 2nd |
| brought renaissance and reformation | Henry 8th |
| daughter of anne boleyn | Elizabeth 1st |
| lost American colonies | George 3rd |
| longest reigning monarch in British history | Victoria |
| intened target of Guy Fawkes failed Gunpowder Plot | James 1st |
| Duke of Gloucester in 1461 | Richard 3rd |
| tried to seize the crown from his brother richard | John |
| crowned king of scotland 1651 | Charles 2nd |
| named herself governor of the protestant church | Elizabeth 1st |
| 1678 Popish Plot fabricated by Titus Oates | James 2nd |
| Head of the Church of England so he could divorce; married six times | Henry 8th |
| emergence of shakespeare | Elizabeth 1st |
| doubled the number of Britons that could vote | Victoria |
| reign saw english expansion | James 1st |
| excommunicated by the pope for 4 years for refusing to accept Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury | John |
| used the delaration of breda to restore himself to the english throne | Charles 2nd |
| deposed in the Glorious Revolution | James 2nd |
| married Eleanor of Aquitane and invaded England the following year | Henry 2nd |
| spent only 5 months of his reign in england | Richard 1st (lion-hearted) |
| actually just king of wessex conquered most of danelaw territory | Alfred the Great |
| weak as a fighter, forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215 | John |
| fought 2 lackluster wars against the dutch and needed protection through treaty of dover | Charles 2nd |
| developed common law and due process | Henry 2nd |
| went on the Third Crusade in Jerusalem | Richard 1st (Lion-Hearted) |
| kept England from the worst of the Dark Ages | Alfred the Great |
| House of Normandy (1066-1087) | William 1st (Conqueror) |
| House of Tudor (1509-1547) | Henry 8th |
| House of Hanover (1760-1820) | George 3rd |
| fought with thomas a Becket | Henry 2nd |
| translated famous works to Anglo-Saxon | Alfred the Great |
| House of Hanover (1837-1901) | Victoria |
| House of Tudor (1558-1603) | Elizabeth 1st |
| House of Stuart (1625-1649) | Charles 1st |
| House of Stuart (1603-1625) | James 1st |
| House of York (1483-1485) | Richard 3rd |
| House of Windsor (1952-present) | Elizabeth 2nd |
| House of Plantagenet (1199-1216) | John |
| House of Stuart (1660-1685) | Charles 2nd |
| House of Stuart (1685-1688) | James 2nd |
| House Plantagenet (1154-1189) | Henry 2nd |
| House of Plantagenet (1189-1199) | Richard 1st (lion-hearted) |
| Saxon House (871-899) | Alfred the Great |
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