List of English Monarchs - House of Wessex (restored, Second Time)

House of Wessex (restored, Second Time)

After Harthacanute, there was a brief Saxon Restoration between 1042 and 1066. After the Battle of Hastings, a decisive point in English history, William II, Duke of Normandy became king of England.

Name Portrait Birth Marriages Children Death
Edward the Confessor

9 June
1042 – 1066
c. 1003
Islip, Oxfordshire
Son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy
Edith of Wessex
23 January 1045
None 5 January 1066
Westminster Palace
Aged about 63
Harold Godwinson

6 January – 14 October 1066
c. 1020
Son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex and Gytha Thorkelsdóttir
Edith Swannesha Godwine, Edmund, Magnus, Gunhild, Gytha 14 October 1066
Hastings
Aged about 46
(Died in battle)
Ealdgyth
c. 1064
Harold, Ulf
Edgar the Ætheling

15 October – 17 December 1066
Proclaimed, but never crowned
c. 1053
Hungary
Son of Edward the Exile and Agatha
Unmarried None c. 1125
Aged about 72

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