User:Zeutron/Editing test for Descent of QE2 from William I
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This table shows the descent of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom from William I (William the Conqueror). This is intended to supplement the previously existing chart that shows the descent of Queen Elizabeth from the Saxon kings (House of Wessex), a line that runs through William's daughter-in-law, Matilda (1079-1118), the wife of Henry I. Matilda descends from the House of Wessex by virture of being the great-granddaughter of Edmund II, who was briefly King of England in 1016.
There are several breaks in the line of descent, but the hereditary succession has never been entirely broken. In 1485 the throne was seized by Henry VII, who was a great-great-grandson of Edward III through an illegitimate descent, and whose family had been specifically excluded from the throne. Henry re-established the legitimate royal descent by marrying Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, so that his son Henry VIII had a sound hereditary claim.
In 1603 the Tudor line became extinct when Elizabeth I died childless. But the throne passed to James I, a great-great-grandson of Henry VII. Again, in 1714 the Protestant Stuart line became extinct with the death of Queen Anne, but the throne passed to George I, a great-grandson of James I.
The Queen rules by virtue of her descent from the Electress Sophia of Hanover (shown as the final generations below) by the Act of Settlement, 1701, rather than by reason of her descent from any earlier Kings of England.
[edit] Table of descent from William I to Elizabeth II
William I
(10**-1***)
King of England 1066-**
= *** (Wife of William I)
|
|
Henry I
(1***-11**)
King of England 1100-35
= Matilda (1079-1118)
|
|
Empress Matilda
(1102-67)
= Geoffrey Plantagenet,
| Count of Anjou
|
Henry II
(1132-89)
King of England 1154-89
= Eleanor of Aquitaine
|
|
John
(1166-1216)
King of England 1199-1216
= Isabella of Angouleme
|
|
Henry III
(1206-72)
King of England 1216-72
= Eleanor of Provence
|
|
Edward I
(1239-1307)
King of England 1272-1307
= Eleanora of Castile
|
|
Edward II
(1284-c1327)
King of England 1307-27
= Isabella of France
|
|
Edward III
(1284-c1327)
King of England 1327-77
= Philippa of Hainault
|
|
John of Gaunt
Duke of Lancester
(1340-1399)
= Catherine Swynford
|
(illegitimate until marriage)
|
John Beaufort
Earl of Somerset
(1373-1410)
= Margaret Holland
|
|
John Beaufort
Duke of Somerset
(1404-44)
= Margaret Beauchamp
|
|
Margaret Beaufort
(1441-1509)
= Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond
|
|
Henry VII
King of England 1485-1509
(1457-1509)
= Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV
|
|
Margaret = James IV, King of Scots
(1489-1541)
|
|
James V,
King of Scots
(1512-42)
= Mary de Guise
|
|
Mary,
Queen of Scots
(1542-87)
= Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
|
|
James VI, King of Scots
James I
King of England 1603-25
(1566-1625)
= Anne of Denmark
|
|
Elizabeth
(1596-1662)
= Frederick V, Elector Palatine, King of Bohemia
|
|
Sophia
(1630-1714)
= Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover
|
|
George I
King of Great Britain 1714-27
(1660-1727)
= Sophia Dorothea of Celle
|
|
George II
King of Great Britain 1727-60
(1683-1760)
= Caroline Wilhelmina of Anspach
|
|
Frederick, Prince of Wales
(1707-51)
= Augusta of Saxe-Coburg
|
|
George III
King of Great Britain and Ireland 1760-1820
(1738-1820)
= Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
|
|
Edward, Duke of Kent
(1767-1820)
= Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
|
|
Victoria
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland 1837-1901
(1819-1901)
= Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
|
|
Edward VII
King of Great Britain and Ireland 1901-10
(1841-1910)
= Alexandra of Denmark
|
|
George V
King of Great Britain and Ireland 1910-36
(1865-1936)
= Mary of Teck
|
|
George VI
King of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland 1936-52
(1895-1952)
= Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
|
|
Elizabeth II
Queen of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland 1952-present
(born 1926)
= Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh

