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June 6th, 2011, 03:17 AM
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#1 | | Academician
Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 59 | Were there any Anglo Saxon Kings post Harold Godwinson?
Did any Anglo Saxon/English Kings rule again or were they all Norman/French/German descent?
Thanks.
edit: sorry wrong section!
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Last edited by Grenadier; June 6th, 2011 at 03:24 AM.
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June 6th, 2011, 03:22 AM
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#2 | | Historian
Joined: Aug 2009 From: Belgium Posts: 5,673 |
No more Anglosaxons. Normans, Plantagenets, Angevins, Yorks, Lancasters (the last 2 are simply branches though), Tudors, Stuarts and a lot of Germans.
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June 6th, 2011, 05:00 AM
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#3 | | Historian
Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 5,152 |
In a sense, George I was an "Anglo-Saxon" king.  | | | |
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June 6th, 2011, 05:54 AM
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#4 | | Historian
Joined: Aug 2009 From: Belgium Posts: 5,673 | Quote:
Originally Posted by pikeshot1600  In a sense, George I was an "Anglo-Saxon" king. | Hehehe ...
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June 6th, 2011, 07:26 AM
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#5 | | Lecturer
Joined: May 2011 Posts: 259 | Quote:
Originally Posted by pikeshot1600 In a sense, George I was an "Anglo-Saxon" king. |
well i dont think he spent much time in england, nor did he speak english
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June 6th, 2011, 07:46 AM
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#6 | | Misanthropologist
Joined: Aug 2010 From: Wales Posts: 8,535 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Grenadier Did any Anglo Saxon/English Kings rule again or were they all Norman/French/German descent?
Thanks.
edit: sorry wrong section! | There were if I recall, pretenders. That didnt last too long though.
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June 6th, 2011, 11:52 AM
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#7 | | Scholar
Joined: Oct 2009 From: Ontario, Canada Posts: 826 |
After the death of King Harold the Anglo-Saxons elected some yound man as king but he didn't rule for any real amount of time.
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June 6th, 2011, 12:35 PM
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#8 | | Acting Corporal
Joined: May 2011 From: Navan, Ireland Posts: 5,342 |
Would Haralds sons count as Kings of England? a couple went to Ireland and raided a one I think was locked in the tower.
Legend has it that he had a son born to his wife after his death who lived to an old age as a monk.
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June 14th, 2011, 07:18 AM
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#9 | | Archivist
Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 146 |
No kings, though technically one could consider Edgar Atheling (Prince), the uncrowned successor elected by the London magnates as Duke William approached the city, as the last 'king'?
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June 14th, 2011, 07:30 AM
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#10 | | Academician
Joined: May 2011 From: New York Posts: 81 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Hereword No kings, though technically one could consider Edgar Atheling (Prince), the uncrowned successor elected by the London magnates as Duke William approached the city, as the last 'king'? | Perhaps. After Hastings, most inhabitants refused to accept the legitimacy of William's rule. The nobility were originally planning on electing Edwin, the Earl of Mercia to replace Godwinson and continue the fight against William the Bastard. Still, others wanted the seemingly more qualified Edgar Atheling, as you stated, as he supposedly had a strong claim to the throne, being the grandson of Anglo-Saxon king Edmund Ironside.
Of course, once William entered London on Christmas Day, Atheling, Edwin, and Morcar (Earl of Northumbria) capitulated to him.
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Last edited by Flavius Belisarius; June 14th, 2011 at 07:30 AM.
Reason: clarification
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