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(Monarchs of Britain - 802AD - Present )
Page created at 07:53 - 12/01/2007



Great House

Start

 

End

Name of Monarch

Reign

         

Years

House of Wessex

802

-

839

Egbert

37

839

-

855

Aethelwulf

16

855

-

860

Aethelbald

5

860

-

866

Aethelbert

6

866

-

871

Aethelred I

5

871

-

899

Alfred the Great
Newenden

28

899

-

925

Edward I, the Elder

26

925

-

940

Athelstan

15

940

-

946

Edmund I

6

946

-

955

Eadred

9

955

-

959

Eadwig (Edwy)

4

959

-

975

Edgar

16

975

-

978

Edward II, the Martyr

3

978

-

1016

Aethelred II, the Unready

38

1016

-

1016

Edmund II, Ironside

1

Danish Line

1014

-

1014

Svein I, Forkbeard

1

1016

-

1035

Canute I

19

1035

-

1040

Harald I, Harefoot

5

1040

-

1042

Canute II, Hardicanute

2

House of Wessex, Restored

1042

-

1066

Edward III, the Confessor

24

1066

-

1066

Harold II
Battle
Sedlescombe
Whatlington

1

Norman Line

1066

-

1087

William I, the Conqueror
Battle
Burwash

21

 

1087

-

1100

William II, Rufus

13

 

1100

-

1135

Henry I

35

 

1135

-

1141

Stephen

6

 

1141

-

1141

Empress Matilda

1

 

1141

-

1154

Stephen

13

Plantagenet, Angevin Line

1154

-

1189

Henry II

35

 

1189

-

1199

Richard I
Robertsbridge
Salehurst

10

 

1199

-

1216

John

17

 

1216

-

1272

Henry III
Flimwell
Hurst Green
Robertsbridge

56

 

1272

-

1307

Edward I

35

 

1307

-

1327

Edward II
Robertsbridge

20

 

1327

-

1377

Edward III

50

 

1377

-

1399

Richard II

22

Plantagenet, Lancastrian Line

1399

-

1413

Henry IV

14

 

1413

-

1422

Henry V

9

 

1422

-

1461

Henry VI

39

 

1461

-

1470

Edward IV

9

 

1470

-

1471

Henry VI

1

 

1471

-

1483

Edward IV

12

 

1483

-

1483

Edward V

1

 

1483

-

1485

Richard III
Bodiam

2

House of Tudor

1485

-

1509

Henry VII

24

 

1509

-

1547

Henry VIII
Battle
Salehurst

38

 

1547

-

1553

Edward VI

6

 

1553

-

1553

Lady Jane Grey

1

 

1553

-

1558

Mary I

5

 

1558

-

1603

Elizabeth I
Northiam

45

House of Stuart

1603

-

1625

James I

22

 

1625

-

1649

Charles I

24

The Commonwealth

1649

-

1658

Oliver Cromwell

9

 

1658

-

1660

Richard Cromwell

2

House of Stuart, Restored

1660

-

1685

Charles II

25

 

1685

-

1689

James II

4

House of Orange and Stuart

1689

-

1702

William III, Mary II

13

House of Stuart

1702

-

1714

Anne

12

House of Brunswick

1714

-

1727

George I

13

 

1727

-

1760

George II

33

 

1760

-

1820

George III

60

 

1820

-

1830

George IV

10

 

1830

-

1837

William IV

7

 

1837

-

1901

Victoria

64

House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

1901

-

1910

Edward VII

9

House of Windsor

1910

-

1936

George V

26

 

1936

-

1936

Edward VIII

1

 

1936

-

1952

George VI

16

 

1952

-

1999

Elizabeth II

47


Villages Referenced

Alciston (Fifty thousand tiles on the Barn)
Aldington (The Aldington Gang)
Appledore (Danes invade England)
Ashburnham (Last Iron Furnace in Sussex)
Battle (William the Conqueror prevails)
Beckley (Alfred the Great and Guns !)
Benenden (One of Englands Top Girls Schools)
Berwick (Sharpen your arrows on the Church)
Biddenden (The Maids of Biddenden)
Bishopstone (Largest Tide-Mill in Sussex)
Bonnington (Saint Rumwold the child saint)
Boughton Monchelsea (Miraculous vision)
Brede (Edward I inspects the Channel Fleet)
Brenchley (A beautiful Kent village)
Brenzett (St Eanswyth a saxon princess)
Broad Oak Brede (On the Crossroads)
Buxted (The first Iron Cannon in England)
Chiddingly (Walking on Cheese ??)
Chiddingstone (A perfect Tudor village)
Colemans Hatch (Church on the edge of the forest)
Cranbrook (Christmas Cards and Union Mill)
Crowhurst (Village devastated by the Normans)
Denton (Earl Godwins Manor)
East Dean (Fishing and Wrecking)
Eridge Green (The home of the Neville Family)
Exceat (Alfred the Great's Naval Base?)
Fletching (Simon de Montfort and Jack Cade)
Flimwell (300 local people beheaded)
Folkington (Teasles and Badgers)
Forest Row (The Kings hunting party)
Framfield (380 years without a church tower)
Frant (King Johns hunting lodge)
Frittenden (The Search for the Treacle Mines)
Goudhurst (Smugglers, Iron and Forests)
Hadlow (Mays Folly - 150ft tower)
Hamsey (Abandoned Saxon Island)
Headcorn (King Johns Oak)
Heathfield (19th Century Natural Gas)
Hellingly (Only remaining Ciric in Sussex)
Herstmonceux (Castle and Observatory)
Hever (Anne Boleyn and the Castle)
Horsmonden (The largest Wealden Iron Works)
Hurst Green (The Youngest Highwayman on record)
Icklesham (Paul McCartney's Recording Studio)
Isfield (Simon de Montfort and the Lavender Line)
Jevington (Smugglers and Churchill Tanks)
Kilndown (Charcoal for the Furnace)
Laughton (Knight captures King of France)
Marden (Broadcloth and Agriculture)
Mayfield (Saint Dunstan and the Devil)
Newenden (Alfred the Great's Fort)
Newick (Killer Cricket and Dirk Bogarde)
Northiam (Prime Ministers D Day inspection)
Old Romney (Sheep and Wool Smuggling)
Old Winchelsea (Abandoned after the Great Storm)
Pevensey (Ancient Roman Fortification)
Ripe (Earl Harolds estate)
Rye (On the Island)
Sandhurst (Escape from the Great Plague)
Seaford (The cormorants or shags)
Sedlescombe (Best gunpowder in Europe)
Sissinghurst (The magnificent garden of Vita Sackville-West)
Staplehurst (Charles Dickens train crash)
Sundridge (Last Peer of England to be hanged)
Sutton Valence (seized from Simon de Montfort)
Tenterden (Centre of the Broadcloth industry)
Ticehurst (Anne Boleyn and Pashley Manor)
Udimore (Angels move the Church)
Upper & Lower Dicker (Michelham Priory)
Wadhurst (Last bare fisted Prize-Fight in England)
Warbleton (The Iron Man)
Warehorne (A good place to explore the Marshes)
West Dean (Alfred the Great's Palace)
Westerham (James Wolfe captures Quebec)
Westham (Enclosure for the Castle)
Whatlington (King Harold's Manor)
Withyham (De La Warrs and Sackvilles)
Wittersham (Park your Airship here ?)

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