last anglo saxon king

[davesalt]

after Harold before William

[dotty.]

After Harold? before William of Normandy?

[tiggerblue10]

Not quite sure what you are asking but Harold Godwinson was the last Anglo-Saxon king. He was killed on 14 Oct 1066 then William was crowned on 25 dec 1066.

[dotty.]

that's what was confusing me tiggs

[jackthehat]

http://en.wikipedia.o...gar_the_%C3%86theling

[tiggerblue10]

Forgot about Edgar although he was never crowned.

[dotty.]

he was never King, only elected but there was never a proclamation

[jackthehat]

I know but he's the only one who fits the question...

[dotty.]

yes you're right jack, it's the wording that is misleading,

[jake-the-peg]

It was a question on QI a while back - they like bending the rules a bit

[jake-the-peg]

Mind you If you count Edward VIII you'd have to count Edgar

Don't know if you do though

[dotty.]

and if you count him, you have to count any elected King/Queen whether a proclamation or a coronation followed, which would pribablt change our history quite abit.

[DTCwordfan]

Edgar (the) Ætheling[1] (ca 1051 – ca 1126) was the last male member of the royal house of Cerdic of Wessex - He was proclaimed, but never crowned, King of England in 1066.

Following Harold's death at the Battle of Hastings against the invading Normans in October, the Witanagemot assembled in London and elected Edgar king. The new regime thus established was dominated by the most powerful surviving members of the English elite, Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury, Ealdred, Archbishop of York and the brothers Edwin, Earl of Mercia and Morcar, Earl of Northumbria. The commitment to Edgar's cause of these men, who had so recently passed over his claim to the throne without apparent demur, must have been doubtful from the start. The strength of their resolve to continue the struggle against William of Normandy was questionable and the military response they organised to the continuing Norman advance was ineffectual. When William crossed the Thames at Wallingford he was met by Stigand, who now abandoned Edgar and submitted to the invader. As the Normans closed in on London, Edgar's key supporters in the city began negotiating with William. In early December the remaining members of the Witan in London met and resolved to take the young uncrowned king out to meet William to submit to him at Berkhamsted, quietly setting aside Edgar's election

[tiggerblue10]

If you count Edward VIII and Edgar, you'd have to also count Edward V, Lady Jane Grey and Matilda.

[dotty.]

Lady Jane Grey was the main one i was thinking of

[jno]

and indeed King Louis I of England

http://en.wikipedia.o...to_the_English_Throne

[dotty.]

Well he at least got as far as a Proclamation, that's progress

[dotty.]

'progress',< see what i did there lol