Kings of Wessex
871 - 902: Æthelwold (Wessex Dynasty) [1]
902 - 927: Æthelred II 'The Ready' (Wessex Dynasty) [2]
927 - 969: Ælfwine I 'The Old' (Wessex Dynasty) [3]
969 - 972: Egbert II 'The Innocent' (Wessex Dynasty) [4]
972 - 1000: Æthelred III 'The Great' (Wessex Dynasty) [5]
1000 - 1001: Edward I 'The Brute' (Wessex Dynasty) [6]
Kings of Wessex and Northumbria
1001 - 1015: Edward I 'The Brute' (Wessex Dynasty) [6]
1015 - 1039: Ælfwine II 'The Cruel' (Wessex Dynasty) [7]
1039 - 1040: Æthelhelm 'The Unlucky' (Wessex Dynasty) [8]
1040 - 1061: Edwin I 'The Peacemaker' (Wessex Dynasty) [9]
Kings of England
1061 - 1065: Edwin I 'The Peacemaker' (Wessex Dynasty) [9]
Kings of England and Poland
1065 - 1120: Boleslaus Edgar 'the Pious'(Wessex-Piast) [10]
Jan - July 1120: Edwin II 'the Insane' (Wessex-Piast) [11]
Kings of England
1120 - 1126: Edwin II 'the Insane' (Wessex-Piast) [11]
1126 - 1131: The War of the English Succession [12]
Kings of Bohemia, Poland, England and Dukes of Scania
1131 - 1150: Vratislaus (Premyslid)[13]
Kings of England and France
1150 - 1151: Louis (Capetian) [14]
Kings of England
1151 - 1192: Edwin III (Dunkeld) [15]
1192 - 1250: Edwin IV (Dunkeld)[16]
1250 - 1282: Malcolm I (Dunkeld/Winchester) [17]
1282 - 1284: David I 'the Valiant' (Winchester) [18]
1284 - 1310: Malcolm II 'the Unlucky' (Winchester) [19]
1310 - 1345: Malcolm III 'the Good' (Winchester) [20]
1345 - 1355: Peter 'the Pious' (Winchester) [21]
1355 - 1358: Edmund (Winchester) [22]
1358 - 1374: Edric (Winchester) [23]
1374 - 1381: Edmund 'the Horse King' II(Winchester) [24]
[1] Alfred, uncle to Ethelwold served ably as regent for the first ten years of Ethelwold's reign before surrending power to Ethelwold in 881 A.D., including defeat Viking lord Guthrum at the Battle of Ethandum in 878 A.D.. However in 882, Ethelwold names Alfred as the leader of his armies against Viking invasions, which continued throughout 882 and 883. A final victory over Guthrum in 884 followed and Alfred was installed as King of East Anglia. Ethelwold marries his cousin Ethelflaed, daughther of Alfred in 892 A.D., after the death of her husband Ethelred in 890 A.D.. In 893, another Viking invasion besets East Anglia and Alfred is forced to flee after suffering two defeats in 894. He returns to Wessex and gathers a new army, defeating the Viking in 895 in such a way that forced the leader of the new invasion to agree to a peace treaty in 896, recognising Alfred's rule of East Anglia, whilst ceding all of Mercia to Viking chieftains. A brief period of peace follows which is disrupted by the death of Alfred in 899 A.D. and another invasion of East Anglia by the Vikings under a new chieftain by the name of Ragnar. Ragnar is victorious over Alfred's successor, his son Edward and conquers East Anglia and only a bad winter in 901 stops him from invading Wessex. Finally beginning his invasion of Wessex in early 902, Ragnar is defeated by the army of Ethelwold in March 902 but due to being unable to press his advantage, Ethelwold is forced to recognise Ragnar's kingdom in East Anglia. A year of peace follows before Ethelwold's death. He is succeeded by his son Aethelred II.
[2] Aethelred gained the nickname Aethelred "the Ready" for saving Wessex from a viking invasion. Ragnar was succeeded by his son Hrolf, a vicious warrior with plans to conquer all of England for the Vikings. In 919, Hrolf and his army invaded Wessex from East Anglia. Although Aelthered's Saxons were greatly outnumbered by the Vikings, he was able against all odds to defeat Hrolf in the battle causing him to retreat back into East Anglia. For the rest of Aethelred's reign, Wessex fortunately was not invaded by any more outside forces. He died in 927 and was succeeded by his eldest son Aelfwine.
[3] The longest ruling King of Wessex, Aelfwine also covertly harried the Danelaw, sowing dissent and discord among the Norsemen and accumulating power to himself. By his death in 969, his grandson and successor Egbert could rightly call himself King of England, with only Northumbria still out of his reach, though only barely.
[4] Egbert succeeded Aelfwine upon his death. He was the eldest son of Alefwine's son Aethelred aetheling who had predeceased him. Egbert was an incapable ruler who made a failed attempt to conquer Northumbria, the only territory in the way for Wessex's complete domination of England. Though commonly called 'the innocent," his nickname has also been translated to 'the foolish' or 'the naive.' Just three years into his reign, Egbert died and leaving no children was succeeded by his younger brother Aethelred III.
[5] Aethelred III inherited his brother's throne and was able to conquer Northumbria in 982 A.D, however Hrolf's grandson Ragnar returned in southern England and crushed an army of Wessex in 989 A.D.. Aethelred III spent the rest of his reign in war with Ragnar until his death during the final battle of the war. His actions and victories during the war saw him given The Great as a nickname by his later descendants. He was succeeded by his son, Eadweard the Brute.
[6] Eadweard (Edward) had been a general in his father, Aethelred III's army since the age of 16. By 999, he was marching his army towards York, during the Siege of York, he was told of his father's death.
York, fell a year later and Eadweard crowned himself, King of Wessex and Northumbria, after kinging Ragnar, his sons, daughters and grandchildren, with even his close allies calling him brutish.
His reign ended in 1015, after he was found floating in a large barrel of wine.
[7] Aelfwine the Cruel, brother of Eadweard usurped the dual thrones of Wessex and Northumbria from his young nephew, imprisoning his nephew. He immediately proved himself a worse King than his brother with his treatment of prisoners. Aelfwine was also called The Red King for his disturbing habit of ripping open the stomach of his prisoner and pulling out their entrails by himself. He also skinned several prisoners alive, including the last independent King of York. He was succeeded by his imprisoned nephew Æthelhelm, son of Eadweard the Brute.
[8] Æthelhelm spent most of his life, in the Tower of York, waiting for the day his uncle would have him killed.
However during the winter of 1039, his uncle, King Aelfwine the Cruel, died and a liberating army of noblemen rushed to the Tower, to release the rightful king.
He is nicknamed "the unlucky" after dying two months later, in the year 1040, without producing an heir.
[9] Since Aethelhelm died without an heir, it was up to the Witenagemot, a council of nobles to pick the new king. After a brief interregnum, they settled on Edwin, a cousin of Aethelhelm and a grandson of Aethelred the Great through his youngest son Alfred. Edwin became known as the 'Peacemaker' for attempting to put an end to conflicts both at home and abroad. He negotiated with viking ruler Magnus Olafsson, the King of Norway and Denmark signing the Treaty of Aberdeen agreeing that all lands west of the off sea were off limits to the Vikings while all lands east were off limits to the Anglo-Saxons. However, Edwin's greatest accomplishment was becoming the first king of England uniting the kingdoms of Wessex and Northumbria into one kingdom in 1061 on January 14 which became known as "unification day." Four years after unification, Edwin died and was succeeded by his eldest son Boleslaw the Pious.
[10] After the extinction of the Piasts in the male line there were two contenders in the Polish throne, the English Boleslaus Edgar, the son of Edwin I the peacemaker who married Agatha of Poland, the eldest daughter of the last king from the Piast Dynasty and the Premyslids, Malopolska supported the Premyslids while the other supported the Boleslaus Edgar, after succeeding the Polish war of succession, he was crowned the King of Poland and on the death of his father, he became the King of both Poland and England.
[11] However, Boleslaus Edgar despite a very long and peaceful reign left no surviving children. His nephew Edwin, the son of his younger brother Alfred was quick to claim the English throne. The Wittangemot selected him as King without any opposition. However in Poland, there was a different story. Boleslaus Edgar during his reign had been criticized for spending almost all of his time in England and ignoring Poland, the other country he was king of which experienced a major famine during his reign. With the crowning of Edwin in Poland, there was much opposition, leaving a minor noble by the name of Wladyslaw "Two Sides" to overthrow him in Poland just six months into his reign leaving him with only England and ending the personal union between both countries. Edwin was known as "the Insane" and his reign was considered an utter failure. He made a futile attempt to invade Normandy only for his army to get annihilated by Duke Robert. Taking advantage of this, David I of Scotland conquered almost all of the former kingdom of Northumbria from England. Edwin reigned for six years before his assassination by a member of the Wittangemot. This threw England into a succession crisis as he was the last remaining descendant of not only Edwin the Peaceful but also the last male-line descendant of the Wessex Dynasty as a whole. A major succession crisis ensued. Many Anglo-Saxon Earls claimed the English throne along with William (OTL William the Conquerer's grandson), the son of Duke Robert of Normandy, Inge the Hunchback of Norway and King David of the Scots who surprisingly had the strongest claim of anybody being directly descended from the old Kings of Wessex...
[12] The War of the English Succession broke out within months of the death of Edwin II and lasted for six devastating years. Most of the English nobility had claims on the throne along with William of Normandy, Inge of Norway, and King David of the Scots and the British Isles were their chosen battlefield. Most of England was devastated by the conflict, Southern Scotland was almost completely depopulated, by the end of the war most of the major claimants had died, leaving their claims in the hands of children and their Regents. This forced the remaining English lords to the negotiating table and after several months of haggling, deal-making, and random flare ups of violence did they agree to elect Vratislaus as their King.
[13]A descendant of Edwin I's daughter, he united the four realms of Poland, Bohemia, England and Scania, he is known to be a pious King and well loved by people, he was deposed in England by the Capetian king of France Louis VI who also has a claim to throne of England while he was touring Krakow and Prague to talk to his vassals.
[14] King Louis of France deposed Vratislaus, however less than a week after he was crowned in April 1150, the English nobles rose up in rebellion over his actions and in December 1151, Louis was killed in the Second Battle of London. The various nobles of England decided to elect a new King. They chose Edwin, third son of King David of Scotland, who was third in succession to the Scottish throne and therefore unlikely to inherit the dual thrones.
[15] King Edwin III ruled for 41 years, stabilising England after nearly twenty years of unrest. He proved to be charming and personable to his vassals and stern and unbending to those who went against him. This included his brother Malcolm IV of Scotland, who inherited the Scottish throne in 1153 who demanded that Edwin officially cede Northumbria to Scotland but Edwin refused and decided to march on Scotland, conquering all of the Scottish gains in Northumbria during the reign of Edwin the Insane and was going to push further into Scotland before he was persuaded not to by his brother William (who would later succeed Malcolm IV to become William I of Scotland). Edwin returned to England but was ever watchful to the north until Malcolm IV's death in 1165 saw his brother William succeed as King. For the rest of Edwin's reign he was at peace with Scotland. Nothing of note happened in the following 26 years and he was succeeded by his son Edwin
[16] Edwin IV, son of Edwin III ruled for 57 years as King of England and helped his uncle William I (1165-1214) and his cousin Alexander I (1214-1249) complete their conquest of northern Scotland. He also invaded and conquered Wales in 1199, confirming it with the death of the last Prince of Wales in 1202. He then launched a failed invasion of Ireland in 1205 and again in 1209. A moderately successful one followed in 1215 when Edwin's brother John is able to carve out a small kingdom on the coast of Ireland. the Kingdom of the Irish Coast lasts only a few short years before John is killed by the native Irish. In 1237 Edwin's attention is drawn to the south of his Kingdom where Norman duke Robert V has invaded. After two years, Edwin is able to force the duke out of his kingdom in 1239. He rules peacefully for 11 more years, dying of old age in 1250. He was succeeded by his grandson Malcolm.
[17] Malcolm, being the second grandson of King Edwin IV, by his only son, David had been trained in the military, but death struck Prince David of Wales in 1245, and then his eldest son, Edwin, on 1249, leaving Malcolm, as the only heir to claim the throne of England in 1250, he was know as the "Soldier King." He took his birth town Winchester as his new house name, not wanting two kings from the same house of different thrones.
In 1272, he led an army to conquer the isle of Hibernia, he was planning to conquer the land of Norman duke Robert VI, on the continent but died in 1282, before the campaign could begin, leaving his throne to his son, David, by his second wife, Catherine of Denmark.
[18] David I of England called "the Valiant" for his efforts in battle captured a small portion of land containing Calais and Dunkirk from the Normans giving the English their first foothold in continental Europe. However, he died before he could expand further into Normandy and having no children was succeeded by his younger brother Malcolm II
[19] Malcolm II is called "the Unlucky" due to losing his father's conquests of Ireland and the Norman coast conquered by his brother and his inability to retake them. He ruled for 26 years before his death. He was succeeded by his son Malcolm III
[20] Malcolm III ruled for 35 years as King and is widely regarded as one of the best kings of the Winchester dynasty. He overturned the losses of his father with successful conquests of Ireland from 1314-1318 and 1319-1325. He then followed it up with an invasion of the Norman coast in 1326, annexing much of northern Normandy in 1327. However Duke Robert VIII was able to push Malcolm III out in 1328 before a further victory for the English in 1329 allowed Malcolm III to conquer all of Normandy in 1330 and 1331. Robert is forced into exile in 1332 into the court of Louis XII of France where he remains until his death in 1335. Malcolm III does homage to Louis XII for the lands that he conquered and is granted the Duchy of Normandy. For the last ten years of his reign, England was at peace until his death in 1345. He was succeeded by his son Peter
[21] Peter of Winchester ruled for 10 years as King and was known as the Pious for the entirety of his reign due to his extreme love of the Catholic Faith. However due to his love of the Church, he made enemies in the English nobles when he increased tax upon them to lower the tax of church property. He exiled his uncle Edmund after the man refused to pay the increased tax As a result, after ten years of his rule, the nobles rose in revolt and deposed the King, installing his exiled uncle Edmund, brother of Malcolm III as the new King.
[22] Edmund's reign was rather uneventful aside from adjusting tax rates to please the nobles. After three years of rule, he died and leaving no children of his own, he had to be succeeded by his brother Edric.
[23] Edric, the brother of Edmund proved to be a more active monarch due to two invasions by the son of Peter I, 'Peter II' but often called 'the Old Pretender' in the historical record. The 'Petorians' as Peter II's supporters came to be called wanted to restore the 'proper' succession, but those who supported Edric came to be called 'Royalists', while the invasions were easily defeated by Edric, the Old Pretender and his descendants would be a plague upon England for many years. Edric also unknowingly set the stage for further conflict with France when he married Blanche of Burgundy who bore him several children, while she did have two brothers they both died before their father, thus leaving the succession of Burgundy in question, a question that wasn't resolved when Edric died of typhus in 1374, leaving the crown to his cousin Edmund (II)
[24] Edmund, grandson of the first Edmund, is regarded as the 'Horse King' due to his fondness for the cavalry when he was young. Much of his reign was done by horseback due to the lure of war. Edmund is accredited in many adventures on the Continent and formally expanded relations with the Low Countries. He marred Margaret of Ghent who gave him three sons. His attempts to incorporate the Low Countries, or rather the failure of it, is well known. Edmund opened new relations with Denmark. Edmund began the Council of Ministers to rule in his stead as he went on his foreign adventures. He died due to an illness.
871 - 902: Æthelwold (Wessex Dynasty) [1]
902 - 927: Æthelred II 'The Ready' (Wessex Dynasty) [2]
927 - 969: Ælfwine I 'The Old' (Wessex Dynasty) [3]
969 - 972: Egbert II 'The Innocent' (Wessex Dynasty) [4]
972 - 1000: Æthelred III 'The Great' (Wessex Dynasty) [5]
1000 - 1001: Edward I 'The Brute' (Wessex Dynasty) [6]
Kings of Wessex and Northumbria
1001 - 1015: Edward I 'The Brute' (Wessex Dynasty) [6]
1015 - 1039: Ælfwine II 'The Cruel' (Wessex Dynasty) [7]
1039 - 1040: Æthelhelm 'The Unlucky' (Wessex Dynasty) [8]
1040 - 1061: Edwin I 'The Peacemaker' (Wessex Dynasty) [9]
Kings of England
1061 - 1065: Edwin I 'The Peacemaker' (Wessex Dynasty) [9]
Kings of England and Poland
1065 - 1120: Boleslaus Edgar 'the Pious'(Wessex-Piast) [10]
Jan - July 1120: Edwin II 'the Insane' (Wessex-Piast) [11]
Kings of England
1120 - 1126: Edwin II 'the Insane' (Wessex-Piast) [11]
1126 - 1131: The War of the English Succession [12]
Kings of Bohemia, Poland, England and Dukes of Scania
1131 - 1150: Vratislaus (Premyslid)[13]
Kings of England and France
1150 - 1151: Louis (Capetian) [14]
Kings of England
1151 - 1192: Edwin III (Dunkeld) [15]
1192 - 1250: Edwin IV (Dunkeld)[16]
1250 - 1282: Malcolm I (Dunkeld/Winchester) [17]
1282 - 1284: David I 'the Valiant' (Winchester) [18]
1284 - 1310: Malcolm II 'the Unlucky' (Winchester) [19]
1310 - 1345: Malcolm III 'the Good' (Winchester) [20]
1345 - 1355: Peter 'the Pious' (Winchester) [21]
1355 - 1358: Edmund (Winchester) [22]
1358 - 1374: Edric (Winchester) [23]
1374 - 1381: Edmund 'the Horse King' II(Winchester) [24]
[1] Alfred, uncle to Ethelwold served ably as regent for the first ten years of Ethelwold's reign before surrending power to Ethelwold in 881 A.D., including defeat Viking lord Guthrum at the Battle of Ethandum in 878 A.D.. However in 882, Ethelwold names Alfred as the leader of his armies against Viking invasions, which continued throughout 882 and 883. A final victory over Guthrum in 884 followed and Alfred was installed as King of East Anglia. Ethelwold marries his cousin Ethelflaed, daughther of Alfred in 892 A.D., after the death of her husband Ethelred in 890 A.D.. In 893, another Viking invasion besets East Anglia and Alfred is forced to flee after suffering two defeats in 894. He returns to Wessex and gathers a new army, defeating the Viking in 895 in such a way that forced the leader of the new invasion to agree to a peace treaty in 896, recognising Alfred's rule of East Anglia, whilst ceding all of Mercia to Viking chieftains. A brief period of peace follows which is disrupted by the death of Alfred in 899 A.D. and another invasion of East Anglia by the Vikings under a new chieftain by the name of Ragnar. Ragnar is victorious over Alfred's successor, his son Edward and conquers East Anglia and only a bad winter in 901 stops him from invading Wessex. Finally beginning his invasion of Wessex in early 902, Ragnar is defeated by the army of Ethelwold in March 902 but due to being unable to press his advantage, Ethelwold is forced to recognise Ragnar's kingdom in East Anglia. A year of peace follows before Ethelwold's death. He is succeeded by his son Aethelred II.
[2] Aethelred gained the nickname Aethelred "the Ready" for saving Wessex from a viking invasion. Ragnar was succeeded by his son Hrolf, a vicious warrior with plans to conquer all of England for the Vikings. In 919, Hrolf and his army invaded Wessex from East Anglia. Although Aelthered's Saxons were greatly outnumbered by the Vikings, he was able against all odds to defeat Hrolf in the battle causing him to retreat back into East Anglia. For the rest of Aethelred's reign, Wessex fortunately was not invaded by any more outside forces. He died in 927 and was succeeded by his eldest son Aelfwine.
[3] The longest ruling King of Wessex, Aelfwine also covertly harried the Danelaw, sowing dissent and discord among the Norsemen and accumulating power to himself. By his death in 969, his grandson and successor Egbert could rightly call himself King of England, with only Northumbria still out of his reach, though only barely.
[4] Egbert succeeded Aelfwine upon his death. He was the eldest son of Alefwine's son Aethelred aetheling who had predeceased him. Egbert was an incapable ruler who made a failed attempt to conquer Northumbria, the only territory in the way for Wessex's complete domination of England. Though commonly called 'the innocent," his nickname has also been translated to 'the foolish' or 'the naive.' Just three years into his reign, Egbert died and leaving no children was succeeded by his younger brother Aethelred III.
[5] Aethelred III inherited his brother's throne and was able to conquer Northumbria in 982 A.D, however Hrolf's grandson Ragnar returned in southern England and crushed an army of Wessex in 989 A.D.. Aethelred III spent the rest of his reign in war with Ragnar until his death during the final battle of the war. His actions and victories during the war saw him given The Great as a nickname by his later descendants. He was succeeded by his son, Eadweard the Brute.
[6] Eadweard (Edward) had been a general in his father, Aethelred III's army since the age of 16. By 999, he was marching his army towards York, during the Siege of York, he was told of his father's death.
York, fell a year later and Eadweard crowned himself, King of Wessex and Northumbria, after kinging Ragnar, his sons, daughters and grandchildren, with even his close allies calling him brutish.
His reign ended in 1015, after he was found floating in a large barrel of wine.
[7] Aelfwine the Cruel, brother of Eadweard usurped the dual thrones of Wessex and Northumbria from his young nephew, imprisoning his nephew. He immediately proved himself a worse King than his brother with his treatment of prisoners. Aelfwine was also called The Red King for his disturbing habit of ripping open the stomach of his prisoner and pulling out their entrails by himself. He also skinned several prisoners alive, including the last independent King of York. He was succeeded by his imprisoned nephew Æthelhelm, son of Eadweard the Brute.
[8] Æthelhelm spent most of his life, in the Tower of York, waiting for the day his uncle would have him killed.
However during the winter of 1039, his uncle, King Aelfwine the Cruel, died and a liberating army of noblemen rushed to the Tower, to release the rightful king.
He is nicknamed "the unlucky" after dying two months later, in the year 1040, without producing an heir.
[9] Since Aethelhelm died without an heir, it was up to the Witenagemot, a council of nobles to pick the new king. After a brief interregnum, they settled on Edwin, a cousin of Aethelhelm and a grandson of Aethelred the Great through his youngest son Alfred. Edwin became known as the 'Peacemaker' for attempting to put an end to conflicts both at home and abroad. He negotiated with viking ruler Magnus Olafsson, the King of Norway and Denmark signing the Treaty of Aberdeen agreeing that all lands west of the off sea were off limits to the Vikings while all lands east were off limits to the Anglo-Saxons. However, Edwin's greatest accomplishment was becoming the first king of England uniting the kingdoms of Wessex and Northumbria into one kingdom in 1061 on January 14 which became known as "unification day." Four years after unification, Edwin died and was succeeded by his eldest son Boleslaw the Pious.
[10] After the extinction of the Piasts in the male line there were two contenders in the Polish throne, the English Boleslaus Edgar, the son of Edwin I the peacemaker who married Agatha of Poland, the eldest daughter of the last king from the Piast Dynasty and the Premyslids, Malopolska supported the Premyslids while the other supported the Boleslaus Edgar, after succeeding the Polish war of succession, he was crowned the King of Poland and on the death of his father, he became the King of both Poland and England.
[11] However, Boleslaus Edgar despite a very long and peaceful reign left no surviving children. His nephew Edwin, the son of his younger brother Alfred was quick to claim the English throne. The Wittangemot selected him as King without any opposition. However in Poland, there was a different story. Boleslaus Edgar during his reign had been criticized for spending almost all of his time in England and ignoring Poland, the other country he was king of which experienced a major famine during his reign. With the crowning of Edwin in Poland, there was much opposition, leaving a minor noble by the name of Wladyslaw "Two Sides" to overthrow him in Poland just six months into his reign leaving him with only England and ending the personal union between both countries. Edwin was known as "the Insane" and his reign was considered an utter failure. He made a futile attempt to invade Normandy only for his army to get annihilated by Duke Robert. Taking advantage of this, David I of Scotland conquered almost all of the former kingdom of Northumbria from England. Edwin reigned for six years before his assassination by a member of the Wittangemot. This threw England into a succession crisis as he was the last remaining descendant of not only Edwin the Peaceful but also the last male-line descendant of the Wessex Dynasty as a whole. A major succession crisis ensued. Many Anglo-Saxon Earls claimed the English throne along with William (OTL William the Conquerer's grandson), the son of Duke Robert of Normandy, Inge the Hunchback of Norway and King David of the Scots who surprisingly had the strongest claim of anybody being directly descended from the old Kings of Wessex...
[12] The War of the English Succession broke out within months of the death of Edwin II and lasted for six devastating years. Most of the English nobility had claims on the throne along with William of Normandy, Inge of Norway, and King David of the Scots and the British Isles were their chosen battlefield. Most of England was devastated by the conflict, Southern Scotland was almost completely depopulated, by the end of the war most of the major claimants had died, leaving their claims in the hands of children and their Regents. This forced the remaining English lords to the negotiating table and after several months of haggling, deal-making, and random flare ups of violence did they agree to elect Vratislaus as their King.
[13]A descendant of Edwin I's daughter, he united the four realms of Poland, Bohemia, England and Scania, he is known to be a pious King and well loved by people, he was deposed in England by the Capetian king of France Louis VI who also has a claim to throne of England while he was touring Krakow and Prague to talk to his vassals.
[14] King Louis of France deposed Vratislaus, however less than a week after he was crowned in April 1150, the English nobles rose up in rebellion over his actions and in December 1151, Louis was killed in the Second Battle of London. The various nobles of England decided to elect a new King. They chose Edwin, third son of King David of Scotland, who was third in succession to the Scottish throne and therefore unlikely to inherit the dual thrones.
[15] King Edwin III ruled for 41 years, stabilising England after nearly twenty years of unrest. He proved to be charming and personable to his vassals and stern and unbending to those who went against him. This included his brother Malcolm IV of Scotland, who inherited the Scottish throne in 1153 who demanded that Edwin officially cede Northumbria to Scotland but Edwin refused and decided to march on Scotland, conquering all of the Scottish gains in Northumbria during the reign of Edwin the Insane and was going to push further into Scotland before he was persuaded not to by his brother William (who would later succeed Malcolm IV to become William I of Scotland). Edwin returned to England but was ever watchful to the north until Malcolm IV's death in 1165 saw his brother William succeed as King. For the rest of Edwin's reign he was at peace with Scotland. Nothing of note happened in the following 26 years and he was succeeded by his son Edwin
[16] Edwin IV, son of Edwin III ruled for 57 years as King of England and helped his uncle William I (1165-1214) and his cousin Alexander I (1214-1249) complete their conquest of northern Scotland. He also invaded and conquered Wales in 1199, confirming it with the death of the last Prince of Wales in 1202. He then launched a failed invasion of Ireland in 1205 and again in 1209. A moderately successful one followed in 1215 when Edwin's brother John is able to carve out a small kingdom on the coast of Ireland. the Kingdom of the Irish Coast lasts only a few short years before John is killed by the native Irish. In 1237 Edwin's attention is drawn to the south of his Kingdom where Norman duke Robert V has invaded. After two years, Edwin is able to force the duke out of his kingdom in 1239. He rules peacefully for 11 more years, dying of old age in 1250. He was succeeded by his grandson Malcolm.
[17] Malcolm, being the second grandson of King Edwin IV, by his only son, David had been trained in the military, but death struck Prince David of Wales in 1245, and then his eldest son, Edwin, on 1249, leaving Malcolm, as the only heir to claim the throne of England in 1250, he was know as the "Soldier King." He took his birth town Winchester as his new house name, not wanting two kings from the same house of different thrones.
In 1272, he led an army to conquer the isle of Hibernia, he was planning to conquer the land of Norman duke Robert VI, on the continent but died in 1282, before the campaign could begin, leaving his throne to his son, David, by his second wife, Catherine of Denmark.
[18] David I of England called "the Valiant" for his efforts in battle captured a small portion of land containing Calais and Dunkirk from the Normans giving the English their first foothold in continental Europe. However, he died before he could expand further into Normandy and having no children was succeeded by his younger brother Malcolm II
[19] Malcolm II is called "the Unlucky" due to losing his father's conquests of Ireland and the Norman coast conquered by his brother and his inability to retake them. He ruled for 26 years before his death. He was succeeded by his son Malcolm III
[20] Malcolm III ruled for 35 years as King and is widely regarded as one of the best kings of the Winchester dynasty. He overturned the losses of his father with successful conquests of Ireland from 1314-1318 and 1319-1325. He then followed it up with an invasion of the Norman coast in 1326, annexing much of northern Normandy in 1327. However Duke Robert VIII was able to push Malcolm III out in 1328 before a further victory for the English in 1329 allowed Malcolm III to conquer all of Normandy in 1330 and 1331. Robert is forced into exile in 1332 into the court of Louis XII of France where he remains until his death in 1335. Malcolm III does homage to Louis XII for the lands that he conquered and is granted the Duchy of Normandy. For the last ten years of his reign, England was at peace until his death in 1345. He was succeeded by his son Peter
[21] Peter of Winchester ruled for 10 years as King and was known as the Pious for the entirety of his reign due to his extreme love of the Catholic Faith. However due to his love of the Church, he made enemies in the English nobles when he increased tax upon them to lower the tax of church property. He exiled his uncle Edmund after the man refused to pay the increased tax As a result, after ten years of his rule, the nobles rose in revolt and deposed the King, installing his exiled uncle Edmund, brother of Malcolm III as the new King.
[22] Edmund's reign was rather uneventful aside from adjusting tax rates to please the nobles. After three years of rule, he died and leaving no children of his own, he had to be succeeded by his brother Edric.
[23] Edric, the brother of Edmund proved to be a more active monarch due to two invasions by the son of Peter I, 'Peter II' but often called 'the Old Pretender' in the historical record. The 'Petorians' as Peter II's supporters came to be called wanted to restore the 'proper' succession, but those who supported Edric came to be called 'Royalists', while the invasions were easily defeated by Edric, the Old Pretender and his descendants would be a plague upon England for many years. Edric also unknowingly set the stage for further conflict with France when he married Blanche of Burgundy who bore him several children, while she did have two brothers they both died before their father, thus leaving the succession of Burgundy in question, a question that wasn't resolved when Edric died of typhus in 1374, leaving the crown to his cousin Edmund (II)
[24] Edmund, grandson of the first Edmund, is regarded as the 'Horse King' due to his fondness for the cavalry when he was young. Much of his reign was done by horseback due to the lure of war. Edmund is accredited in many adventures on the Continent and formally expanded relations with the Low Countries. He marred Margaret of Ghent who gave him three sons. His attempts to incorporate the Low Countries, or rather the failure of it, is well known. Edmund opened new relations with Denmark. Edmund began the Council of Ministers to rule in his stead as he went on his foreign adventures. He died due to an illness.
