A portrait of Aethelstan, who was King of England from 924 until 939 A.D. Although Aethelstan is generally agreed to be England's first true king, a number of other figures—and factors—make ...

Beginning in 927, Aethelstan was acknowledged as the first King of England. At this point, he also defined the borders with Wales and Scotland and established marriages between his sisters and ...

The first monarch to rule over what would later become Great Britain was King Alfred the Great, who was crowned as the King of England in 871 A.D. There wouldn't be a British monarch per se until ...

King Cerdic, the King of Wessex, has been shrouded in mystery for thousands of years (Picture: Wikimedia) The burial place of the first King of England could be tucked within a sleepy Hampshire ...

From a noted chronicler of the medieval period, a new biography of the first Anglo-Saxon king to rule over a united England. His achievement in conquering the Viking kingdom at York in 927 (almost ...

Wiltshire town find medieval treasure in hunt for England's first king. Residents of an historic Wiltshire town were left in awe when a National Lottery-funded archaeological dig turned up ...

Henry IV was, since the Norman Conquest of three centuries prior, the first king of England for whom English was a mother tongue. An adventurer who had battled the pagans of the Lithuanian forests and ...

Say, hypothetically, that you’re being crowned king of England this weekend. First of all, congrats! Second, if you’re feeling anxious, that’s understandable.