Basic Facts on Kings and Queens of England
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House: Normans
Born - Date: 1027 or 1028 (illegitimate)
Place: Falaise, Normandy
Father: Robert, Duke of Normandy
Mother: Herleva of Falaise (daughter of merchant)
Wife: Matilda (died 1083)
Date Married: Circa 1052
Relation to previous Monarch: Distant relative to Edward the Confessor
Ascended the throne: 25 December 1066
Crowned – Date: 25 December 1066
Place Westminster Abbey
Reigned – Period: 1066-1087
Number of years: 20
How died: Injuries from accident at Mantes
Date died: 9 September 1087
Place of death: Priory of St Gervais, near Rouen, France
Place of burial: Abbey of St Stephen at Caen, Normandy
Age at death: 60
Notes:
1086 Doomsday Book. Built White Tower of London. Claimed throne through vague promise by Edward the Confessor (circa 1051). First King to be crowned at Westminster Abbey
Famous Battles:
25 September 1066 - Stamford Bridge, King Harold defeated Tostig (his brother) and Harold Hardrada of Norway. 14 October 1066 – Hastings, William defeated King Harold
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Basic Facts on Kings and Queens of England (GREAT BRITAIN) & United Kingdom
From 1066 (William the Conqueror) The longest serving monarch:- QUEEN VICTORIA 20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901 The shortest serving monarch:- LADY JANE GREY 10 – 19 July 1553 e-mail: kingsandqueensofengland@talktalk.net Daniel I DaviesAbout the Author
I am not a historian and when I was in school history was one of my least popular subjects. For me history was all dates and uninteresting facts. How time changes one.
Apart from Christmas the only two dates that stuck in my mind were my birthday and 1066. I knew what happened on my birthday but I did not fully appreciate the significance of 1066 – The Battle of Hastings - and little did I realise the importance of that date on British history. Some years ago, however, whilst recovering in hospital after an operation I started reading a book on Edward I and this is when my interest in the history of the monarchy began. Although my interest has increased over the years the perennial problem of remembering all the dates, names etc. remained. I therefore started to gather some basic facts and recorded them in this booklet. It is of course impossible to record nearly one thousand years of historical information in such a short booklet and some small discrepancies were found between one book to another.