Wednesday 12 March 2014

Monarchs in Literature

I quite like historical fiction and thorough stumbling across various books I've covered hundreds of years. Throughout this time there has been some sort of monarch and there is almost always at least a passing reference to a king or queen.

This got me thinking is there a book for every monarch in English\British History, so staring with the books i have read i thought I'd begin mapping this out. Partly out of interest but i'd also be quite interested in your recommendations about how to fill out the rest of the monarchs as yet uncovered. 

I'll start by covering the period from William the Conquer and Henry the 8th, for no particular reason but they seem like 2 note worthy kings.


William 1st 1066-1087

William 2nd 1087-1100

Henry 1st 1100-1135 

  • Pillars Of the Earth - Ken Follett

King Stephen 1135-1154


Henry 2nd 1154-1189

Henry 3rd 1216-1272 

Edward 1st 1272-1307

Edward 2nd 1307-1327

Edward 3rd 1327-1377

Henry 4th 1399 - 1413

Henry 5th 1413 - 1422

Henry 6th 1422-1461

Henry 8th 1509-1547

Lady Jane Grey

Mary 1553-1558

Elizabeth 1st 1558-1603

*I have included books that cover the reign of a monarch even if it is only for a very brief period and in some cases when the monarch is not mentioned but would have been on the throne at the time

**not yet read

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