Who was the first king in England?

Answer 1

This is a question that could easily be up for debate. After the decline of the Roman Empire much of the land that is present day England was dispersed out by various means. Due to this there were many leaders that evolved into kings of the English during the ninth and tenth centuries. Many competing Saxon kingdoms emerged, but the belief is that the kings of Wessex eventually evolved to become the basis of the first noted monarchy.

Due to this, there is no one individual that is universally recognised as the first King of England. Some historians start with Egbert, the king of Wessex whose overlordship of the Saxons led visibly to the growth of an English crown, even though his immediate inheritors were still only crowned heads of smaller kingdoms. Other writers commence with Athelstan, the first man to be crowned King of the English.

It was queen Matilda, she was the first monarch, but her events were not rightfully record therefore we have no real evidence that she was.

Answer 2

The first king in England would have been one of several kings of small kingdoms that developed after the departure of Roman power from the region.

This might have been Icel, king of Mercia beginning around 527 AD.

Or it might have been Cedric, first King of Wessex around 519 AD.

As both of these may be only legendary figures, the first King in England may have been someone else.

Æthelstan or Athelstan was the first King of England. He was King of the Anglo-Saxond from 924 - 927 AD and King of the English from 927 - 939 AD.

Answer 3

That's really a very tricky question.

The first person termed anything like "prince" in England (not including Wales) after the Norman conquest of 1066 was Henry I "Beauclerc"'s son William Adelin.

People didn't have surnames in that time - his name Adelin is sometimes translated as "prince"

Another candidate is the first English Prince of Wales, Edward of Carnarvon (who was later Edward II)

Answer 4

Empress Matilda (c. 7 February 1102 - 10 September 1167), also known as Matilda of England or Maude, was the daughter and heir of King Henry I of England.

Matilda was the first female ruler of the Kingdom of England. The length of her effective rule was brief, however-a few months in 1141. She was never crowned and failed to consolidate her rule (legally and politically). For this reason, she is normally excluded from lists of English monarchs,

Answer 5

The first person to assume the title Rex Anglorum (King of the English) was Offa of Mercia, though his power did not survive him. The continuous list of English monarchs traditionally begins with Egbert of Wessex in 829. Alfred the Great and his son Edward the Elder used the title "King of the Anglo-Saxons." After Athelstan conquered Northumbia in 927, he adopted the title Rex Anglorum. Starting with Henry II (1154), the title became Rex Angliae (King of England).

Answer 6

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