The Kings and Queens of Wessex are normally dated from King Egbert's rule.
Rulers were styled:
- 'Bretwalda' (829-927)
- 'Rex Anglorum' (927-1016) until division of England into Wessex and Anglia.
- Rex Saxonum' (1016-1207) until inheritance of Normandy
- 'King of Wessex & Duke of Normandy' (1207-1502) until Act of Union
- King of Wessex-Normandy (1502-)
Monarch | Portrait | Dates of Rule |
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Egbert | (802-839) | |
Aethelwulf | (839-856) | |
Aethelbald | (856-860) | |
Aethelberht | (860-865) | |
Aethered I | (865-871) | |
Alfred the Great | (871-899) | |
Edward I | (899-924) | |
Aethelstan the Glorious | (924-939) | |
Edmund I | (939-946) | |
Eadred | (946-955) | |
Eadwig | (955-959) | |
Edgar I | (959-975) | |
Edward II the Martyr | (975-978) | |
Aethelred II | (978 - 1013) |
Monarch | Portrait | Dates of Rule |
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Sweyn I Forkbeard (Sweyn I of Denmark-Viken) | (1013-1014) |
Monarch | Portrait | Dates of Rule |
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Aethelred II | (1014-1016) | |
Edmund II Ironside | (1016-1031) | |
Edward III | (1031-1057) | |
Edgar II | (1057-1125) | |
Henry I | (1125-1170) | |
Edmund III | (1170-1188) | |
Matilda I | (1188-1198) |
Monarch | Portrait | Dates of Rule |
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Theobold of Blois & Matilda I | (1198-1214) | |
Henry II | (1214-1253) | |
Edmund IV | (1253-1260) | |
Robert I | (1260-1267) | |
Edward IV | (1267-1301) | |
Robert II | (1301-1323) | |
Alix | (1323-1354) |
Matilda II is suspected of being a Lutheran and is usurped by her cousin Henry, Duke of Monmouth beginning the Wessex War of Religion between the Royalists and various Lutheran dukes (with considerable Cornish and Welsh support). She is executed in 1570.
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Dukes of Normandy[]
Monarch | Portrait | Dates of Rule |
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Rollo (Hrólfr) | (911-927) | |
William I Longsword | (927-942) | |
Richard I | (942-997) | |
Richard II the Good | (996-1027) | |
Richard III | (1027) | |
Robert I the Magnificent | (1027-1035) | |
William II the Bastard | (1035-1087) | |
Robert II | (1087-1106) | |
William III | (1106-1154) | |
William IV | (1154-1183) | |
Robert III | (1183-1206) |
On the death of Robert III the Duchy of Normandy is inherited by the future Henry II via his mother Matilda I, but is effectively ruled by her husband Theobald of Blois, triggering the Twenty Years War.
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