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British Monarchs

You Gotta Know These British Monarchs

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Actually just King of Wessex, he expelled the Danes from London in 886 and encouraged literacy, translating works by Boethius and Bede Alfred the Great
The king who authorized the survey of his kingdom in the 1086 Domesday Book after defeating the Anglo-Saxons William I (the Conqueror)
The battle where William I killed Harold II and defeated the Anglo-Saxons in 1066 Battle of Hastings
The Plantagenet king who developed common law and due process, but fought with Thomas à Becket over submission to the Pope Henry II
The woman Henry II married in 1152, bringing the vast territory of Aquitaine into the English realm Eleanor of Aquitaine
Known as the "Lion-Hearted," this king spent only five months of his reign in England, mostly fighting in the Third Crusade Richard I
The Duke of Austria who captured Richard I on his way back from the Holy Land Leopold V
Excommunicated by the Pope for four years and routed by Philip II at Bouvines in 1214, the barons forced this king to sign the Magna Carta John Lackland
The document signed at Runnymede in 1215, marking the beginning of the British constitution's development Magna Carta
The last Yorkist king who likely murdered his nephew Edward V in the Tower of London before dying at Bosworth Field Richard III
The battle in 1485 where Henry Tudor's forces killed Richard III, ending the Wars of the Roses Bosworth Field
The Tudor king who brought England into the Renaissance and the Reformation, making himself head of the Church of England Henry VIII
The title given to Henry VIII by the Pope before their split, which he kept Defender of the Faith
The only one of Henry VIII's six wives to bear him a son, Edward VI Jane Seymour
The "Virgin Queen" who restored England as a Protestant state and foiled attempts at her throne by Philip II and Mary, Queen of Scots Elizabeth I
The English naval expansion and emergence of William Shakespeare occurred during the reign of this monarch Elizabeth I
The Scottish king who inherited the English throne upon Elizabeth I's death, becoming the first Stuart king of England James I
The Catholic fanatic responsible for the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot against James I Guy Fawkes
The Stuart king who dissolved Parliament from 1611 to 1621 due to his belief in absolutism James I
The king whose conflict with Parliament led to the Petition of Right and the Bishops' Wars Charles I
The period from 1629 to 1640 when Charles I tried to rule England without Parliament (critics called it the "Eleven Years’ Tyranny") Personal Rule
The event that forced Charles I to call the Short Parliament and Long Parliament Bishops' Wars
The location of Charles I's Cavalier court during the English Civil War, after he fled pro-parliamentarian London Oxford
On Jan. 30, 1649, this king was beheaded at Whitehall after being tried for treason by a "High Court of Justice" Charles I
The "Merry Monarch" who used the Declaration of Breda to restore himself to the English throne after Cromwell's death Charles II
The treaty through which Charles II received protection from Louis XIV of France Treaty of Dover
The Roman Catholic king whose favoritism towards Catholics led to his deposition in the Glorious Revolution James II
The fabricated plot in 1678 against Charles II, invented by Titus Oates, that would have elevated James II to the throne earlier Popish Plot
James II was deposed when Protestants invited his son-in-law to rule England in this event Glorious Revolution
The battle in 1690 where James II was routed during his attempt to regain his crown after exile Battle of the Boyne
The Hanoverian king who lost the American colonies but oversaw an expanding British economic empire, eventually suffering from porphyria George III
The disease that caused the "madness" of George III, leading to the Regency period of his son George IV Porphyria
The second-longest-reigning British monarch (after Elizabeth II) who reigned during vast imperial expansion and ceded power to her husband Albert and PMs like Disraeli Victoria
Victoria's husband, who she ceded much power to and whose death in 1861 prompted her seclusion Prince Albert
The current monarch (as of the note's writing) who represents the modern ceremonial monarchy and superseded Victoria as the longest-reigning Elizabeth II
The name of Elizabeth II's husband Prince Philip Mountbatten
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