979-1016 H * Duke of
             16.  Edmund II =================H* * Normandy
               (Ironside), H Godwin, Earl H
                1016-1016 20.  Edward III, of Kent H
                    H the Confessor, H H
           Edgar Atheling, 1042-1066, second ______H H
         grandson of Edward II cousin of William | H H
         [should have succeeded the Conqueror, m.  Edith H H
          Harold II (No. 21)] H H
                                                  21.  Harold II, H
----------------------------- 1066-1066, slain H * This sign shows that the| at Hastings, 1066 H
* * person over whose name | H
it stands was not in the | Robert, Duke of Normandy
direct line of descent. | H
----------------------------- THE NORMAN KINGS 22.  William the Conqueror
                                                 1066-1087, second cousin of
                                                Edward the Confessor (No. 20)
                                                   m.  Matilda of Flanders,
                                                    a direct descendant of
                                                  Alfred the Great, (No. 6)
          
                                                    H
          
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                                   H H H
                          23.  William II, +24.  Henry I, Adela
                             1087-1100 1100-1135 H
                                                    H 25.  Stephen
                                               Maud, or of Blois,
                                             Matilda, m. 1135-1154
                                            (2) Geoffrey
          
                                   Plantagenet,
                                           Count of Anjou
                                                  H
                    THE HOUSE OF ANJOU ++Henry II, 1154-1189
                                                  H
          
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                     H H H
               27.  Richard I Geoffrey 28.  John (Lackland),
               (Coeur de Lion), H 1199-1216
                 1189-1199 Arthur, murdered H
                                 by John? 29.  Henry III,
          
                                         1216-1272
          
                                             H