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1. King of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972)
   - Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor
    
2. Son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War (1330-1376)
   - Black Prince
    
3. King of England from 1272 to 1307; conquered Wales (1239-1307)
   - Edward I
    
4. King of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553; son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour; died of tuberculosis (1537-1553)
   - Edward VI
    
5. King of England who was crowned at the age of 13 on the death of his father Edward IV but was immediately confined to the Tower of London where he and his younger brother were murdered (1470-1483)
   - Edward V
    
6. King of England from 1307 to 1327 and son of Edward I; was defeated at Bannockburn by the Scots led by Robert the Bruce; was deposed and died in prison (1284-1327)
   - Edward II
    
7. King of England from 1901 to 1910; son of Victoria and Prince Albert; famous for his elegant sporting ways (1841-1910)
   - Edward VII, Albert Edward
    
8. Third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964)
   - Prince Edward, Edward Antony Richard Louis
    
9. King of England from 1461 to 1470 and from 1471 to 1483; was dethroned in 1470 but regained the throne in 1471 by his victory at the battle of Tewkesbury (1442-1483)
   - Edward IV
    
10. Son of Edward II and King of England from 1327-1377; his claim to the French throne provoked the Hundred Years' War; his reign was marked by an epidemic of the Black Plague and by the emergence of the House of Commons as the powerful arm of British Parliament (1312-1377)
    - Edward III

Derived forms: Edwards

See also: Edwardian

Type of: King of England, King of Great Britain, prince, Prince of Wales

Part of: House of Windsor, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Windsor

Encyclopedia: Edward, Baron Littleton Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern Edward, 3rd Duke of Buckingham Stafford Edward, Baron Downpatrick Edward, Duke of Guimaraes Edward, Duke of Guimarães Edward, Count of Savoy Edward, Duke of Cornwall Edward, 3rd Baronet Grey Edward, 1st Duke of Windsor Edward, 1st Earl of Wessex Edward Edward, 1st Duke of Somerset Seymour Edward, 2nd Duke of Kent Edward, 2nd Duke of York Edward, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Grey Edward, 2nd Baronet Petre Edward, Manitoba Edward, My Son Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury Edward, Lord Thurlow Edward, Sir Youde Edward, the Black Prince Edward, Prince Palatine Edward, Prince of Wales Edward, Gordon and Henry Edward, Duke of Windsor Edward, Duke of York Edward, Duke of Kent Edward, Duke of Rothesay Edward, Earl of Wessex Edward, Elector Palatine Edward, Duke of York and Albany Edward, Earl of Warwick