Monarchy

Johnâ??s perpetual state of war provided an ever increasing need for great sums of money. He accepted bribes, fined litigants, extorted succession fees and profited from his feudal privileges. He also took scutages, in lieu of military service. This was like an annual tax.

Monarchs historically came to power because they had the support of the people, the bureaucracy and the aristocracy.

Being popular would stop the people from revolting.

In Medieval Europe the church provided the clerks for the bureaucracy. Keeping on good terms with the bishops and the Pope would usually ensure the support of the bureaucracy.

The aristocracy was usually controlled by handing out prestigious offices. Often the nobles were as rich or richer than the king and had more fighting men. It was important to keep these people loyal.

The most important requirement for a new monarch to gain power was for the current monarch to be very unpopular.

The most important thing for a reigning monarch to gain more power was to make sure that all important decisions had to be made by him.

Yes, Henry VIII won the war against France.

Edward VI of England, who ascended to the throne upon the end of the reign of "nine-days' queen" Lady Jane Grey, ascended to the throne on January 28, 1547, and was crowned on February 20 of the same year.

Edward died at the age of 15 years. The cause of his death is uncertain, and while, at the time, there were many rumours of poisoning, there has been no evidence to support these. It is thought that his symptoms before death were typical of bronchopneumonia, leading to septicaemia and kidney failure.

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It was Lady Jane Grey who briefly succeeded Edward VI, not the other way round.

King William IV of Great Britain and Hanover (1765-1837) was the third son of George III and did not become king until 1830.

As a young prince, he had 10 children by actress Dorothea Jordan (or Bland), who he never married, but he had no legitimate heirs to the throne. He was succeeded by Queen Victoria, his niece.

He reportedly had at least one other child out of wedlock, a son (also William) who died in the Royal Navy in 1807.

Queen Victoria was the longest serving British monarch, who served for 63 years and 216 days. However, Sobhuza is the longest reigning monarch in the world, he hails from Zombodze. His reign lasted 82 years and 9 months.

Mary Queen of Scotts was( of course) a queen of Scotland and lived from the 14th of December 1542 -- 24th of July 1567. She spent most of her younger life with her to be wed husband and family. After the death of her 1st husband, she returned to a ravaged country in the midst of a civil war. After the unproven death of her second husband, she was found to be pregnant, so she married James Hepburn. He was an influential noble of the time and she thought it would appease the people. Soon though, Hepburn was murdered by jealous noble and Mary's son was soon born. At her son's birth, James IV after her father James V, the Noble's took him from Mary and she fled for her life. She fled to her cousin Elizabeth, the queen of England at the time. Instead of welcoming Mary, Elizabeth locked her away in a Castle for 16 years. At the end of the 16 years Mary was executed by beheadment. James IV later became the king of both Scotland and England becoming James IV and I of England and Scotland. He is also the one whom wrote the famed King James Version of the Bible.

A tyranny is when someone sizes power from the leader and rules without objection. These sort of governments aren't approved. Often happens when the Monarch is hated. Often, a tyranny doesn't always lead to greatness but it does sometimes if the person secures power for the right reasons (Fidel Castro, for example).

A monarchy is when someone inherits power from the King or Queen (Henry VII --> Henry VIII). This is often accepted and not really rebelled against unless he does something which doesn't please the public.

Most governments are a democracy nowadays, where people vote for the leader and there is freedom of speech etc.

Queen Mary of Teck, known as "May", was selected to marry Prince "Eddie", the first son and heir of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. She was a sober and intelligent young woman; she visited with Queen Victoria several times at Balmoral and The Queen was very fond of her. Sadly, Prince Edward died after their engagement and shortly before their wedding. Queen Alexandra was devastated and did not share the view that her second son, Prince George ("Georgie") - now heir to the throne, might actually improve his capabilities of being King if he married May.

The two young people spent some time together and fell in love. Prince George had been devoted and close to his brother, Eddy and they shared this in common. Queen Mary studied English and European History and was a valuable consort to the future King George. She is known as the most "regal" of the queens and she felt that the monarchy was a sacred duty; hence she required strict and correct protocol. She bore six children. It has been inferred that she was a "cold" mother but in truth, she had always been a reserved person and had a hard time showing or verbalizing affection to people in general. Her eldest son was Prince Edward, later Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne to marry an American Divorcee. His brother, Albert ("Bertie") became King George V, who married Elizabeth, later known as "The Queen Mum" - they were the parents of Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Mary spent a lot of time preparing the young Elizabeth for her future royal role.

For more information about Queen Mary and historical events prior to, through and after her reign, see "Matriarch", by biographer Anne Edwards.

# House of Wessex

## Egbert ## Æthelwulf ## Æthelbald ## Æthelbert ## Æthelred ## Alfred the Great ## Edward the Elder ## Athelstan the Glorious ## Edmund the Magnificent ## Eadred ## Eadwig ## Edgar the Peaceable ## Edward the Martyr ## Æthelred the Unready # House of Denmark ## Sweyn Forkbeard # House of Wessex ## Æthelred the Unready (restored) ## Edmund Ironside # House of Denmark ## Canute ## Harold Harefoot ## Harthacanute # House of Wessex ## Edward the Confessor ## Harold Godwinson ## Edgar the Ætheling (disputed) # House of Normandy ## William I the Conqueror ## William II Rufus ## Henry I Beauclerc ## Stephen ## Matilda (disputed) # House of Plantagenet ## Henry II ### Henry the Young King (subking)

## Richard I the Lionheart ## John Lackland ## Henry III ## Edward I Longshanks ## Edward II ## Edward III ## Richard II ## Henry IV Bolingbroke ## Henry V ## Henry VI ## Edward IV ## Henry VI (restored) ## Edward IV (restored) ## Edward V ## Richard III # House of Tudor ## Henry VII Tudor ## Henry VIII ## Edward VI ## Jane Grey (disputed) ## Mary I ## Elizabeth I Gloriana # House of Stuart ## James I ## Charles I

# Cromwellian Interregnum ## Oliver "Old Ironsides" Cromwell (as Lord Protector) ## Richard "Tumbledown Dick" Cromwell (as Lord Protector) # House of Stuart ## Charles II ## James II ## Mary II (jointly with William III) # House of Orange-Nassau ## William III (jointly with Mary II until December 28, 1694) # House of Stuart ## Anne # House of Hanover ## George I ## George II ## George III ## George IV ## William IV ## Victoria # House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ## Edward VII ## George V # House of Windsor ## George V ## Edward VIII ## George VI ## Elizabeth II 60 - 62, if you count Henry the Young King and Edgar the Ætheling. There were also 6 - 8 Queens, if you count Matilda and Jane Grey. There were 2 Lord Protectors, but they were not given the title of King. Their reigns were separated from the Kings by the Council of State. In total there were 63 - 69 monarchs, if you count the three who were disputed and the Cromwells and Henry the Young King, 3 restorations, 1 interregnum, and 10 royal houses.

it was wrong to kill king Charles because firstly, it was regicide. you are not allowed to kill a monarch. number 2, the court had no legal right to try him in the first place. also its not like he didn't ever make an effort to win wars and make the country happy

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English poet, John Wilmot, who also served as the second Earl of Rochester, wrote the following of Charles:

"Restless he rolls from whore to whore,
A merry monarch, scandalous and poor".

While Charles left no legitimate heir, he had at least 12 children by seven mistresses.

because she didnt kno

James VI of Scotland was next in line to the throne when Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch, died. James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was descended from Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII. He became James I and so began the House of Stuart.

There a numerous different monarchies in the world. Some are certainly more necessary than others. In the UK, Japan, and Spain, for example, the King/Emperor is little more than a figurehead who siphons off taxpayer money. In those cases, a good argument can be made for the abolition of the monarchy. In Morocco, Jordan, and Thailand, the monarch effectively provides stability and direction in the country which would not come through elected democracy which is much more fickle.

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Queen Anne died 1714 and then george I became king

Henry VIII had one older brother name Arthur, who died while their father, Henry VII, was still alive. Arthur married Catherine of Aragon, who later married Henry VIII, after Arthur's death. Catherine and Henry were the parents of Queen Mary Tudor, also known as Bloody Mary because of her persecution of non-Catholics.

Henry's brother was killed so he married his widowed wife. She did not produce a son so he asked the Pope for a divorce. The Pope said no and so Henry made his own religion with no taxes.

Victoria's predecessor was William IV, who reigned from 1830 - '37.

His predecessor was his older brother George IV, but George died without leaving a legitimate heir, so the throne passed to William.

None of them were Kings of England - that title ceased to exist when the crowns of England and Scotland were united in 1707.

Their title, at that date was "King of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland."

The Capetian Dynasty is the oldest Royal House in Europe and includes the Bourbons.

edward abdicated so he could marry mrs Simpson an American divorcee as king he would have been head of the church of England and would not be moral to have done so

The Stuarts were the descendants of Mary, Queen of Scots, and became the monarchs of England and Scotland after Elizabeth I's death. Elizabeth I was from the House of Tudor, which was a Protestant family, while the Stuarts were traditionally Catholic. However, the many of the Stuart monarchs converted to Anglicanism to become the monarch. The Stuarts, being the monarchs of Scotland for centuries, and the first Stuart monarch of England, James I, was the king that united England and Scotland under a single figurehead. It wasn't until the reign of the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, that the Kingdoms of England and Scotland were unified as the Kingdom of Great Britain.

When King Edward VII died on May 6th 1910, his Heir was his second son, George The Duke of Cornwall and York, who became King George V