Kings and Queens: A Family tree

Follow the family tree of the Kings and Queens of England, from 871 to the present day

    'The Kings and Queens of England: From the Conquest to Queen Victoria',    by Henry Hering,    1862,    NPG Ax131392,    © National Portrait Gallery, London 'The Kings and Queens of England: From the Conquest to Queen Victoria', by Henry Hering, 1862, NPG Ax131392, © National Portrait Gallery, London
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The origins of kingship in England can be traced to the second century BC when Celtic and Belgic tribesmen, emigrated from continental Europe and settled in Britain displacing or absorbing the aboriginal inhabitants. The settlers established a number of tribal kingdoms, stretching as far north as Yorkshire, where the powerful Brigantes (from the area of modern Burgundy) and Parisii (whose name survives in the city of Paris, their original homeland) held sway.

The tree below displays linage from Celtic Britain before the Roman invasion to the Norman Conquest of 1066: the establishment of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, the coming of Christianity and the unification of England. The subsequent dynastic struggles of the Angevins and Plantagenets heralded the great age of English kingship under the Tudors and Stuarts, who united the crowns of Scotland and England, before the Hanoverians combined personal rule with parliamentary government, ushering in the modern age and the royalty of today.