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Period: 757 to 796
Offa
House of Mercia -
Period: 802 to 839
Egbert
House of Wessex -
Period: 839 to 856
Aethelwulf
House of Wessex -
Period: 856 to 860
Aethelbald
House of Wessex -
Period: 860 to 866
Aethelbert
House of Wessex -
Period: 866 to 871
Aethelred I
House of Wessex -
Period: 871 to 899
Alfred the Great
House of Wessex -
Period: 899 to 924
Edward the Elder
House of Wessex -
Period: 924 to 940
Athelstan
House of Wessex -
Period: 940 to 946
Edmund
House of Wessex -
Period: 946 to 955
Edred
House of Wessex -
Period: 955 to 959
Edwy
House of Wessex -
Period: 959 to 975
Edgar
House of Wessex -
Period: 975 to 978
Edward the Martyr
House of Wessex -
Period: 978 to 1016
Ethelred II the Unready
House of Wessex -
Period: 1016 to 1016
Edmund lronside
House of Wessex -
Period: 1016 to 1035
Cnut (Canute)
House of Denmark -
Period: 1035 to 1040
Harold I Harefoot
House of Denmark -
Period: 1040 to 1042
Harthacanut
House of Denmark -
Period: 1042 to 1066
Edward the Confessor
House of Wessex -
Period: 1066 to 1066
Harold II
House of Wessex -
Period: 1066 to 1087
William I
House of Normandy -
Period: 1087 to 1100
William II
House of Normandy -
Period: 1100 to 1135
Henry I
House of Normandy -
Period: 1135 to 1154
Stephen
House of Blois -
Period: 1154 to 1189
Henry II
House of Angevin -
Period: 1189 to 1199
Richard I
House of Angevin -
Period: 1199 to 1216
John
House of Angevin -
Period: 1216 to 1272
Henry III
House of Plantagenet -
Dec 7, 1542
Mary Queen of Scots
she was born in Linlithgow -
1558
his wedding
Mary, Queen of Scots, marries French Dauphin, Francis Valois (he was aged 14) at Notre Dame in Paris. She adopts the French spelling of Stuart for her surname -
1560
the Church of Scotland.
Parliament legislates protestant reformation of the Church of Scotland. -
1560
Treaty of Edinburgh
Treaty of Edinburgh between France and England, recognising sovereignty of Mary Queen of Scots and her first husband Francis II -
1561
the death of her husband
Mary Queen of Scots lands at Leith on her return from France, after the death of her husband, King Francis II -
1565
his second wedding
Mary marries her cousin Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. The marriage is a disaster -
1566
his husband secretly kills
Darnley jealous of Mary's Italian secretary David Rizzio, bursts into her room at Holyrood and Rizzio is murdered. -
1567
the killing of her husband
Lord Darnley, husband of Mary Queen of Scots, assassinated -
1567
his third wedding
Mary marries Earl of Bothwell. The Scottish Lords imprison Mary in Loch Leven castle. -
1567
his adbicacion and his kidnapper.
Mary Queen of Scots abdicates and the young James VI accedes to Scottish throne. The Earl of Mar appointed regent.