List of English consorts

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See also: List of English monarchs.
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Elizabeth of York: Daughter, sister, wife and mother of Kings.

The English royal consorts were the spouses of the reigning monarchs of the Kingdom of England. Most of them are women, and held the title of Queen consort; some few are men, whose titles were not consistent, depending upon the circumstances of their spouses' reigns. The Kingdom of England merged with the Kingdom of Scotland in 1707, to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. There have thus been no consorts of England since that date.

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[edit] House of Mercia, 774-796

Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse
align="center" align="center"|Cynethryth – – – – 26 or 29 July 796
husband's death		 after 798 Offa
Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse

[edit] House of Wessex, 802-1016

Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse
Redburga – – 800 – – – 811 Egbert
Osburga – – – – – – – Ethelwulf
Judith Carolingian October 844 1) 1 October 856;
2) 858		 1) 13 January 858
husband's death
2) 860
marriage annulled		 870 1) Æthelwulf;
2) Ethelbald
Wulfrida  ? 868 –  ?  ? Ethelred I
Ealhswith c.852 868 23 April 871 – 26 October 899 5 December 905 Alfred the Great
Ælfflæd  ? c.899 – –  ?
(after 924?)		 Edward the Elder
Edgiva of Kent  ? c.919 – 17 July 924 25 August 968
Ælfgifu – – – – 944? Edmund I the Magnificent
Æthelflæd of Damerham – 944 – 26 May 946 between 962 (975) and 991
Elgiva Wessex – 955 – 958
marriage dissolved		 September 959 Edwy
Æthelflæd – – c.960 – – – Edgar the Peaceable
Elfrida Wessex c.945 964/965 11 May 973 8 July 975 17 November, 999-1001
Ælfgifu of York – – 991 – – – Ethelred II the Unready
Emma of Normandy Normandy c.985 1002 – 23 April 1016 6 March 1052
Edith of East Anglia – c.963 1015 23 April 1016 – 30 November 1016 1017 Edmund II Ironside
Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse

[edit] House of Denmark, 1016-1042

Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse
– Emma of Normandy Normandy c.985 July 1017 12 November 1035
husband's death		 6 March 1052 Canute the Great
Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse

[edit] House of Wessex (restored) and House of Godwin, 1042-1066

Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse
– Edith of Wessex Godwin 1029 1045 Not crowned 4 January 1066
husband's death		 19 December 1075 Edward the Confessor
– Aldgyth of Mercia  ? January 1066 Not crowned 14 October 1066
husband's death		  ? Harold II Godwinson
Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse

[edit] House of Normandy, 1066-1135

In 1066, the Duke of Normandy, William, killed King Harold II of England at the battle of Hastings, and overthrew the English elite. He established himself as King, his wife Matilda as Queen consort, and beneficed his faithful vassals from the continent. His dynasty would not, however, outlive his children, becoming defunct with the death of his youngest son, Henry I, in 1135.

Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse
Matilda of Flanders Flanders c. 1031 1053 25 December 1066
husband's ascension		 11 May 1068 2 November 1083 William I of England
– Matilda of Scotland Dunkeld c. 1080 11 November 1100 11 (?) November 1100 1 May 1118 Henry I
– Adeliza of Louvain Louvain c. 1103 24 January 1121 30 January 1121 1 December 1135
husband's death		 23 April 1151
Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse

[edit] House of Blois, 1135-1154

In 1135, Stephen of Blois, the son of Henry I's sister Adela, seized the English throne, his cousin Empress Matilda of Anjou's claims being ignored by the Norman barons. His wife, Matilda of Boulogne, became his Queen consort, but her elder son died, and Stephen was forced to appoint the Empress's son as his successor.

Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse
Matilda of Boulogne Boulogne c. 1105 1125 22 December 1135
husband's ascension		 22 March 1136 3 May 1152 Stephen
Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse

[edit] House of Plantagenet, 1154-1485

[edit] Direct Line, 1154-1399

Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse
Eleanor of Aquitaine Ramnulfid c. 1122 18 May 1152 25 October 1154
husband's ascension		 19 December 1154 6 July 1189
husband's death		 1 April 1204 Henry II
Berengaria of Navarre Jiménez between 1165 and 1170 12 May 1191 Not crowned 6 April 1199
husband's death		 23 December 1230 Richard I
Isabella of Angoulême Taillfer c. 1187 24 August 1200 8 October 1200 18 or 19 October 1216
husband's death		 31 May 1246 John
Eleanor of Provence Barcelona c. 1223 14 January 1236 20 January 1236 16 November 1272
husband's death		 24 June 1291 Henry III
Eleanor of Castile Anscarid Burgundy (Castilian Branch) 1241 1 November 1254 16 November 1272
husband's ascension		 19 August 1274 28 November 1290 Edward I
Marguerite of France Capet 1282 8 or 10 September 1299 1299? 7 July 1307
husband's death		 14 February 1317
Isabella of France Capet between 1288 and 1296 25 January 1308 25 February 1308 20 January 1327
husband's deposition		 22 August 1358 Edward II
Philippa of Hainault Avesnes 24 June 1311 (?) 24 January 1328 18 February 1330 15 August 1369 Edward III
Anne of Bohemia Luxemburg 11 May 1366 20th January 1383 (?) 22 January 1383 (?) 7 June 1394 Richard II
Isabella of Valois Valois 9 November 1387 31 October or 1 November 1396 8 January 1397 30 September 1399
husband's deposition		 13 September 1409
Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse

[edit] House of Lancaster, 1399-1461, 1470-1471

Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse
Joanna of Navarre Évreux c. 1370 7 February 1403 26 February 1403 20 March 1413
husband's death		 9 July 1437 Henry IV
Catherine of Valois Valois 27 October 1401 2 June 1420 23 February 1421 31 August 1422
husband's death		 3 January 1437 Henry V
Margaret of Anjou Valois-Anjou 23 March 1429 23 April 1445 30 May 1445 21 May 1471
husband's death[1]		 25 August 1482 Henry VI
Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse

[edit] House of York, 1461-1470, 1471-1485

Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse
Elizabeth Woodville Woodville c. 1437 1 May 1464[2] 26 May 1465 9 April 1483
husband's death		 8 June 1492 Edward IV
Anne Neville Neville 11 June 1456 12 July 1472 26 June 1483
husband's ascension		 6 July 1483 16 March 1485 Richard III
Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse

[edit] House of Tudor, 1485-1603

Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse
Elizabeth of York York 11 February 1466 18 January 1486 25 November 1487 11 February 1503 Henry VII
Catherine of Aragon Trastámara 16 December 1485 11 June 1509 24 June 1509 23 May 1533
marriage annulled		 7 January 1536 Henry VIII
Anne Boleyn Boleyn between 1501 and 1507 28 May 1533 1 June 1533 19 May 1536
executed
Jane Seymour Seymour between 1507 and 1509 30 May 1536 Not crowned;
proclaimed queen 4 June 1536		 24 October 1537
Anne of Cleves Kleve 22 September 1515 6 January 1540 Not crowned 9 July 1540
marriage annulled		 16 July 1557
Catherine Howard Howard between 1520 and 1525 28 July 1540 Not crowned 22 November 1541
deprived of title		 13 February 1542
executed
Catherine Parr Parr between 1512 and 1517 12 July 1543 Not crowned 28 January 1547
husband's death		 5 September 1548
– Guilford Dudley (disputed) Dudley 1536 15 May 1553 10 July 1553
wife's ascension		 Not crowned 19 July 1553
wife's deposition		 12 February 1554 Jane
Philip II of Spain Habsburg 21 May 1527 25 July 1554 Not crowned 17 November 1558
wife's death		 13 September 1598 Mary I
Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse

[edit] House of Stuart, 1603-1707

With the death of Elizabeth, the crown of England passed to her cousin and nearest heir, James VI of Scotland, who became James I of England. His dynasty would rule - interrupted by the Interregnum between 1649 and 1660 - until 1714. The Kingdom of England, however, was merged with the Kingdom of Scotland in 1707, to form a new Kingdom, the Kingdom of Great Britain, after which there ceased to be monarchs and consorts of England.

Picture Name House Birth Marriage Became Consort Coronation Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse
Anne of Denmark Oldenburg 14 October 1574 23 November 1589 24 March 1603
husband's ascension		 25 July 1603 4 March 1619 James I
Henrietta Maria of France Bourbon 25 November 1609 11 May 1625 (by proxy)
13 June 1625		 Not crowned 30 January 1649
husband's death and deposition		 10 September 1669 Charles I
Catherine of Braganza Braganza 25 November 1638 21 May 1662 Not crowned 6 February 1685
husband's death		 30 November 1705 Charles II
Mary of Modena Este 5 October 1658 30 September 1673 (by proxy) 6 February 1685
husband's ascension		 23 April 1685 12 February 1689
husband's deposition		 7 May 1718 James II
Prince George of Denmark Oldenburg 2 April 1653 28 July 1683 8 March 1702
wife's ascension		 Not crowned 1 May 1707
Merger of Kingdom of England with Kingdom of Scotland to form Kingdom of Great Britain.		 28 October 1708 Anne

For the continuation of this list, go to List of British consorts.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Henry VI was deposed 4 March 1461, restored 3 October 1470, and deposed again 11 April 1471. Throughout this time Margaret of Anjou was considered by the Lancastrians to be de jure Queen of England
  2. ^ Edward IV's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville was not made public for several months
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