who was king henry v of england?
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Henry V (16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422), also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England from 1413 until his death in 1422. Despite his relatively short reign, Henry's outstanding military successes in the Hundred Years' War against France made England one of the strongest military powers in Europe.
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As the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I was born a princess. ... Royal Central reports that though we use the Roman numeral “I” now, that's not how the first Queen Elizabeth wrote her name during her reign. But during her time, she was simply known as Elizabeth of England.
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Anglo-Saxons ruled for about three centuries, and during this time they formed the basis for the English monarchy and laws. The two most famous Anglo-Saxon kings are Alfred the Great and Canute the Great.
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He assumed the title of King of England, Denmark, Norway and some of Sweden. Later Life and Death: Canute is remembered as an influential king. He brought together English and Danish Kingdoms and this benefited both. His control of Baltic Sea route greatly benefited English trade and economy.
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Edward V, (born November 2?, 1470, London, England—died 1483?), king of England from April to June 1483, who was deposed and possibly murdered by King Richard III.
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Henry Tudor, (Henry VII), earl of Richmond and a Lancastrian, defeated King Richard III, a Yorkist, at the battle of Bosworth Field on 22 August 1485. Richard III was the last English monarch to have been killed in battle. Henry Tudor landed at Milford Haven on 7 August in an attempt to claim the throne of England.
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Pope Pius V (17 January 1504 – 1 May 1572), born Antonio Ghislieri (from 1518 called Michele Ghislieri, O.P.), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 January 1566 to his death in 1572. He is venerated as a saint of the Catholic Church.
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The Tudors succeeded the House of Plantagenet as rulers of the Kingdom of England, and were succeeded by the House of Stuart. The first Tudor monarch, Henry VII of England, descended through his mother from a legitimised branch of the English royal House of Lancaster.
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He became king when his older brother, Edward VIII, abdicated (resigned) in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson. George was married to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon from 1923 until his death. He was succeeded as monarch by his elder daughter, Elizabeth. George had a speech problem, a stutter.
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King Edward VII took over the British throne after the death of Queen Victoria. He was a popular ruler who strengthened his country prior to World War I.
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Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary; 25 April 1897 – 28 March 1965), was a member of the British royal family. She was the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, and aunt of the current British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.
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The current monarch of England (and the rest of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Queen Elizabeth II, is a living descendent of the Plantagenet royal family. She's a direct descendant of Henry II, the first Plantagenet King of England. ... The present royal family are descendants of the Plantagenet royal family.
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All of the monarchs are descendants of King Alfred the Great, who reigned in 871. Some of those included Henry VIII (who founded the Church of England and beheaded two of his six wives), and Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen, under whose rule England prospered in the Golden Age.
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Queen Elizabeth I of England was born in 1533 the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. She never married and died without children. Because of this, the throne passed to her nephew, King James VI of Scotland, who then also became King James I of England.
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Harry, its English short form, was considered the "spoken form" of Henry in medieval England. Most English kings named Henry were called Harry. The name became so popular in England that the phrase "Tom, Dick, and Harry" began to be used to refer to men in general.
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Louis XVI Biography. Louis XVI was the last king of France (1774–92) in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789. He was married to Marie Antoinette and was executed for treason by guillotine in 1793.
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George V, in full George Frederick Ernest Albert, (born June 3, 1865, London, England—died January 20, 1936, Sandringham, Norfolk), king of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936, the second son of Prince Albert Edward, later King Edward VII.