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Reason Seven – First Unbroken Line of Kings to Rule

England.

• Hence, Alfred’s rule represents the start of the first
unbroken line of kings to rule the whole of England,

the House of Wessex.

• This continued up until the death of Aethelred the
Unready when the Danish Cnut & his sons ruled.

• The House of Wessex then briefly regained power
under Aethelred the Unready’s son Edward the

Confessor; but lost it after the Norman Conquest in
1066.

• However, all kings of England since Henry ll have

been descended from the House of Wessex through
Henry 1’s wife Matilda of Scotland, who was a great-

granddaughter of Edmund Ironside.