Back to Britain Photo & History Pages

Paradoxplace Site Map

About Paradoxplace

English Kings and Queens from 802 AD to the present

Books & DVDs about England in the Middle Ages

For burial places more generally see: www.findagrave.com

Born - Reigned - Died

Burial place

(C = Cathedral)

Anglo Saxon Kings

Egbert (King of Wessex)

Winchester C

?-839-856

Ethelwulf

Winchester C

?-856-860

Ethelbald

Ethelbert

?-866-871

Ethelred I

Wimborne Minster (Dorset)

(but tomb location unknown)

Alfred the Great

The only English King to be remembered as "The Great"

Edward the Elder (first King of "all" England ex Northumbria)

Athelstan (became King of Britain by taking over Northumbria)

Malmesbury Abbey

Edmund I the Elder

?-946-955

Eadred

?-955-959

Eadwig

944-959-975 (31)

Edgar

963-975-978 (15)

Edward the Martyr

968-978-1016 (48)

Ethelred II ("The Unready")

whose Archbishop of Canterbury - Sigeric "The Serious" - left a record of his journey home along the via Francigena from Rome where he had gone to visit the Pope.

980-1016-1016 (36)

Edmund II Ironside

Danish Kings

c990-1016-1035 (45)

Cnut (Canute)

Winchester C

?-1035-1040

Harold I (Harefoot)

1019-1040-1042 (23)

Hardecanute

Saxon Restoration

Edward the Confessor

England's only Sainted king and her first Patron Saint (before the foreigner Saint George took over in 1350).

Westminster Abbey

(Shrine)

Harold II (Godwinson)

Waltham Abbey (sort of)

Norman Kings

c1027-1066-1087 (50)

William I the Conqueror

St-Etienne (l'Abbaye aux Hommes), Caen

1059-1087-1100 (41)

William II Rufus

Winchester C

1068-1100-1135 (67)

Henry I (Beauclerc)

Reading Abbey

1097-1135-1154 (57)

Stephen

Faversham Abbey

(Angevin) / Plantagenet Kings

Map of Plantagenet Europe 1160s

The Crusades

100 Years' War

1133-1154-1189 (56)

Henry II (m Eleanor of Aquitaine)

The first Plantagenet King.  Thomas Becket murdered in Canterbury Cathedral 29 December 1170.

Fontevraud Abbey

Richard I ("Coeur de Lion")

Fontevraud Abbey

John (Lackland)

Magna Carta 1215

Worcester C

Henry III (m Eleanor of Provence)

Richard, Earl of Cornwall, Henry III's brother, was inter alia the only Englishman to make it to the double eagle position of King of the Romans.  M1 Isabel Marshall, M2 Sanchia (the Queen's sister and the only one of legendary four "Provence sisters" not to become a Queen), M3 Beatrice of Falkenburg, plus Joan de Valletort, long term mistress & mother of 5 children.

Hailes (Cistercian) Abbey

Edward I ("Longshanks") (m Eleanor of Castile)

Eleanor Crosses

Westminster Abbey

Edward II

Gloucester C

Edward III - kicks off the 100 Years' War

Makes the utility saint George the Patron Saint of England

Westminster Abbey

1330 - 1376 (46)

Edward the Black Prince - oldest son of Edward III.  World class pan European Pillager who lived through the 1348 Black Death, laid to waste half of Western Europe but ended up dying a year before his dad Edward III, so he never became King.  But he has got a superior tomb in Canterbury Cathedral.

Canterbury C

1340 - 1399 (59)

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (hence the House of Lancaster), second son of Edward III.  Contrasted with his war monger brother by staying more "at home" (Somerset House et al), and building up huge mountains of moolah.  Marriage 1 to Blanche (mother of Henry IV) - their tomb in the old St Pauls Cathedral was destroyed in the 1666 Fire of London.  M2 Constance of Castile, and Mistressed then Married 3 to Katherine Swynford (bu Lincoln Cathedral). 

St Pauls (destroyed by fire)

1341 - 1402 (61)

Edmund, Duke of York, youngest son of Edward III - the House of York followed.  Their throne claims were bolstered when further along they remarried into the line of Edward III's second son!

All Saints, Kings Langley

Richard II (son of the Black Prince)

First English Monarch to commission a lifelike portrait of himself.

Westminster Abbey

the first royal portrait

House of Lancaster (from John of Gaunt)

Henry IV, son of John of Gaunt, nephew of the Black Prince

Canterbury C

1387-1413-1422 (35)

Henry V

Westminster Abbey

1421 -1422-1461 & 1470-1471 (50)

Henry VI

St George's Windsor

House of York (from Edmund, Duke of York)

1442 -1461-1470 & 1471-1483 (41)

Edward IV, great grandson of Edmund, Duke of York

whose Queen was Elizabeth Woodville

St George's Windsor

1470-1483-1483 (13)

Edward V

"The Prince in the Tower" - Stained Glass Portrait in Little Malvern Priory East Window.

1452-1483-1485 (32)

Richard III

Brother of Edward IV and the last Plantagenet (and Yorkist) King.

Killed at the battle of Bosworth by the forces of Henry VII to be.

Said to have been buried in the Franciscan priory in Leicester - where (September 2012) a car park is being excavated in search of his remains.

House of Tudor

1457-1485-1509 (52)

Henry VII

Inventor of the Tudors

Westminster Abbey (Lady Chapel) and lifelike effigies in the museum & the V&A

Henry VIII

Insight Page - Monarchs of Early Modern Europe;  Portrait

St George's Windsor

Edward VI

Westminster Abbey

Mary I

Married widower King Philip II of Spain, son of Emperor Charles V, in 1554, but died childless.  Philip went on to marry again and to launch the "Invincible Spanish Armada" against the England of Mary's sister Elizabeth in 1588.  Luckily for England an El Nino event got in the way.

Westminster Abbey

1533-1558-1603 (70)

Elizabeth I

Portrait in Westminster School

Westminster Abbey

(tomb shared with sister Mary I)

Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland (legislative togetherness was achieved an hundred years' later by the 1707 Acts of Union)

House of Stuart

James I

Westminster Abbey

1600-1625-1649 (49)

Charles I

St George's Windsor

Protectorate

1599-1649-1658 (59)

Oliver Cromwell

Tyburn (body) but his head passed through many hands and exhibitions before being buried in Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1960.

1626-1658-1659-1712 (86)

Richard Cromwell

Hursley, Hampshire

Stuart Restoration

Charles II

Westminster Abbey

James II

The Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685 was the last pitched battle on English soil.

St-Germain-en-Leye

William III and Mary II (1662-1694)

Westminster Abbey

Anne

Westminster Abbey

House of Hanover

George I

Hanover

George II

Westminster Abbey

George III

St George's Windsor

George IV

St George's Windsor

William IV

St George's Windsor

Victoria

Frogmore Mausoleum, Windsor

House of Saxe-Coburg

Edward VII

St George's Windsor

House of Windsor

George V

St George's Windsor

1894-1936-1936-1972 (78)

Edward VIII

Frogmore, Windsor

1895-1936-1952 (57)

George VI

St George's Windsor

1926-1952-

Elizabeth II

Part of the information on this and some supporting pages is taken from an excellent web site by Ed Stephan, which also includes genealogies of the French, Spanish and German monarchies.

Wikipedia has a good illustrated layout for its List of English Monarchs and Monarchs in the British Isles

For other Paradoxplace links visit the home page

All original material on this site © Adrian Fletcher 2000-2013.  The contents may not be hotlinked, or reproduced without permission.