Kings and Queens of England

Early Plantagenet

100

Lionheart, took the Crusade, United Saxons and Normans, but spend little time in England

Richard I

200

Hated, Lackland, lost Normandy, Raised Taxes, villain in Robinhood and Ivanhoe

John I

300

First Plantagenet King, founded Angevin Empire

Henry II

400

NOT a Plantagenet, lost to them in the War to replace the House of Normandy, which of course was fought mostly in France not England

Stephen I

500

Repaired the damage of his father, first English King to stylized himself as King Arthur rather than a Caesar.  First Plantagenet to be more English than French.  Reclaimed land lost in France. Talked down a rebellion as a preteen

Henry III

Later Plantagenet

100

Never got to be King, died fighting in the Hundred years war

Black Prince Edward

200

Hammer of the Scots, turned England into a war machine capable of fighting on three fronts simulatneously

Edward I

300

Effeminate King, weak willed king, only promoted handsome men he "liked," shadow of the man his father was, lost Scotland

Edward II

400

Last Plantagenet King, replaced and killed by his Cousin Henry Bollingbroke of House Lancaster.  Weak and ineffective king. 

Richard II

500

First King to Fire a Cannon, started the 100 years war, ruled more territory than any other Plantagenet

Edward III

Roses

100

First Lancaster King, deposed and executed his kinsman Richard II

Henry IV

200

Won Agincourt, had the 100 years war and the thrown of France locked down until he died of sedimentary

Henry V

300

Became king as a baby, things were fine then, went insane as an adult, had his uncle, Richard, duke of York executed, started the War of the Roses

Henry VI

400

Won the throne from and killed his cousin, Henry VI.  Should have ended the War of the Roses, but he married for love causing more rebellions and betrayals. Had to execute his own brother. 

Edward IV

500

Became king when he made his nephew Edward V disappear, that murder rekindled the war of the Roses

Richard III

Tudors

100

Notoriously Cheap, won the War of the Roses, promoted "new men," because so many nobles died in the war of the roses and he couldn't trust his other nobles

Henry VII

200

Was only king for 6 years before he died of Tuberculosis.  His uncles ran the country and turned England truly Protestant. 

Edward VI

300

Brought the reformation to England so he could marry 6 women and rob churches and monasteries 

Henry VIII

400

Perhaps England's greatest monarch, defeated the Spanish Armada, brought colonies to the New World, funded Shakespeare, Never married

Elizabeth I

500

First Queen of England, Catholic, called bloody for burning 280 Protestants

Mary I

Stuarts

100

Bible, Fist Stuart, Tried to Divine right but passed on it.  30 years war, didn't want to fight it, Parliament made him. Secret Catholic? 

James I

200

Lost his crown in the Glorious revolution for trying to be a Divine Right King, and for trying to bring back Catholicism.  England's last Catholic King

James II

300

Lost his head over Divine Right, didn't let parliament meet for 11 years, tyrant?, secret Catholic?

Charles I

400

Replaced their father and father in law in the Glorious revolution.  Protestant

William III and Mary II

500

Beloved king, became Catholic on deathbed, let Parliament do its thing.  Brought back sports, pubs, and Christmas

Charles II