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England, United Kingdom



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England (pronounced IPA: /ˈɪŋglənd/) is a country to the northwest of Continental Europe and is the largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Its inhabitants acaccount for more than 85% of the total population of the United Kingdom, whilst the mainland territory of England occupies most of the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. Elsewhere, it is bordered by the North Sea, Irish Sea, Atlantic Ocean, and English Channel.

England became a unified state during the tenth century and takes its name from the Angles — one of a number of Germanic tribes who settled in the territory during the fifth and sixth centuries. The capital city of England is London, which is the largest city in Britain and largest city in the European Union.

England ranks among the most influential and far-reaching centres of cultural development in the history of the world. It is the place of origin of both the English language and the Church of England, and English law forms the basis of the legal systems of many countries, including the United States. It was the historic centre of the British Empire. It was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and was the first country in the world to become industrialised. England is home to thhe Royal Society, which laid the foundations of modern experimental science. England was the world's first parliamentary democracy and consequently many constitutional, governmental and legal innovations that had their origin in England have been widely adopted by other nations.

The Kingdom of England was a separate state until 1 May 1707, when the Acts of Union resulted in a political union with the Kingdom of Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Etymology

England is named after the Angles (Old English genitive case, "Engla" — hence, Old English "Engla Land"), the largest of a number of Germanic tribes who settled in England in the fifth and sixth centuries, who are believed to have originated in the peninsula of Angeln, in modern-day northern Germany.

Their name has had a variety of different spellings. The earliest known reference to these people is under the name Anglii by Tacitus in chapter 40 of his Germania, written around 98. He gives no precise indication of their geographical position within Germania, but states that, together with six other tribes, they worshipped a goddess named Nerthus, whose sanctuary was situated on "an island in the Ocean."

The terms Angelfolc, Anglorum and Anglis were all used by Bede in Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) when referring to England and the English people.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary entry , the word Angle is derived from the same root as the word angle, originally meaning a fish hook and in this instance referring to the shape of the district where the Angles originated.

History

Prehistoric Britain

Bones and flint tools found in Norfolk and Suffolk show that homo erectus lived in what is now England around 700,000 years ago. At this time, England was linked to mainland Europe by a large land bridge. The current position of the English Channel was a large river flowing westwards and fed by tributaries that would later become the Thames and the Seine.

Archaeological evidence has shown that England was inhabited by humans long before the rest of the British isles because of its more hospitable climate.

Roman conquest of Britain

By AD 43, the time of the main Roman invasion of Britain, Britain had already frequently been the target of invasions, planned and actual, by forces of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. Like other regions on the edge of the empire, Britain had long enjoyed trading links with the Romans and their economic and cultural influence was a significant part of the British late pre-Roman Iron Age, especially in the south.

Anglo-Saxon England

The History of Anglo-Saxon England covers the history of early mediaeval England from the end of Roman Britain and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the fifth century until the Conquest by the Normans in 1066.

Fragmentary knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England in the fifth and sixth centuries comes from the British writer Gildas (6th century) the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (a history of the English people begun in the ninth century), saints' lives, poetry, archaeological findings, and place-name studies.

The dominant themes of the seventh to tenth centuries were the spread of Christianity and the political unification of England. Christianity is thought to have come from three directions — Rome from the south and Scotland and Ireland to the north and west.

Heptarchy is a term used to refer to the existence (as believed) of the seven petty kingdoms which eventually merged to become the Kingdom of England during the early tenth century. These included Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Wessex.

The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms tended to coalesce by means of warfare. As early as the time of Ethelbert of Kent, one king could be recognised as Bretwalda, or "Lord of Britain". Generally speaking, the title fell in the seventh century to the kings of Northumbria, in the eighth to those of Mercia, and finally, in the ninth, to Egbert of Wessex, who in 825 defeated the Mercians at Ellendun. In the next century his family came to rule all England.

Kingdom of England

Originally, England (or Angleland) was a geographical term to describe the territory of Britain which was occupied by the Anglo-Saxons, rather than a name of an individual nation state.

The Kingdom of England was not founded until the separate petty kingdoms were unified under Alfred the Great King of Wessex, who later proclaimed himself King of the English after liberating London from the Danes in 886.

For the next few hundred years, the Kingdom of England would fall in and out of power between several West-Saxon and Danish kings. For over half a century, the unified Kingdom of England became part of a vast Danish empire under Cnut, before regaining independence for a short period under the restored West-Saxon lineage of Edward the Confessor.

The Kingdom of England continued to exist as an independent nation-state right through to the Acts of Union and the Union of Crowns. However the political ties and direction of England were changed forever by the Norman conquest in 1066.

Norman conquest

The Norman conquest of England was the conquest of the Kingdom of England by William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy), in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings and the subsequent Norman control of England. It is an important watershed in English history for a number of reasons. The conquest linked England more closely with Continental Europe and lessened Scandinavian influence. The success of the conquest established one of the most powerful monarchies in Europe, created the most sophisticated governmental system in Europe, changed the English language and culture, and set the stage for English-French conflict that would last into the nineteenth century.

The events of the conquest also paved the way for a pivotal historical document to be produced - the Domesday Book. The Domesday Book was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror. The survey was similar to a census by a government of today and is England's earliest surviving public records document.

To date, the Norman conquest remains the last successful military conquest of England.

Mediaeval England

The next few hundred years saw England as an important part of expanding and dwindling empires based in France, with the "King of England" being a subsidiary title of a succession of French-speaking Dukes of territories in what is now France. OnOnly when English kings realised that their losses in France meant that England was now their richest and most important possession did they accept the same "nationality" and language as their subjects in England. They used England as a source of troops to enlarge their personal holdings in France for many years (Hundred Years' War); in fact the English crown did not relinquish its last foothold on mainland France until Calais was lost during the reign of Mary Tudor (the Channel Islands are still crown dependencies, though not part of the UK).

The Principality of Wales, under the control of English monarchs from the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284, became part of the Kingdom of England by the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542. Wales shared a legal identity with England as the joint entity originally called England and later England and Wales.

Reformation

The English Reformation was the process whereby the external authority of the Roman Catholic Church in England was abolished and replaced with Royal Supremacy and the establishment of a Church of England outside the Roman Catholic Church and undder the Supreme Governance of the English monarch. The English Reformation differed from its other European counterparts in that it was more of a political than a theological dispute which was at the root of it. The break with Rome started in the reign of Henry VIII.

The English Reformation ultimately paved the way for the spread of Anglicanism in the church and other institutions.

English Civil War

The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651. The first (1642–1645) and second (1648–1649) civil wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third war of (1649–1651) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament. The Civil War ended with the Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651.

The Civil War led to the trial and execution of Charles I, the exile of his son Charles II and the replacement of the English monarchy with the Commonwealth of England (1649–1653) and then with a Protectorate (1653–1659): the personal rule of Oliver Cromwell. The monopoly of the Church of England on Christian worship in England came to an end, and the victors consolidated the already-established Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. Constitutionally, the wars established a precedent that British monarchs could not govern without the consent of Parliament although this would not be cemented until the Glorious Revolution later in the century.

Charles II was the restored House of Stuart King of England in 1660, shortly after Cromwell's son, Richard Cromwell succeeded Oliver Cromwell and became Lord Protector.

Great Britain and the United Kingdom

When the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland merged to form the unified Kingdom of Great Britain under the Acts of Union in 1707, both England and Scotland lost their individual political, though not legal, identities. This union hahas subsequently changed its name twice: firstly on the merger with the Kingdom of Ireland following the Act of Union in 1800 creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, and then following the secession from the union of the Irish Free State under the terms of the Government of Ireland Act 1920, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Throughout these changes, England retained a separate legal identity from its partners, with a separate legal system (English law) from those in Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland law) and Scotland (Scots law), and eventually the strong feelings of the Welsh were acknowledged when it was decided that the name would henceforth be "England and Wales".

City/Town : Latitude: 51.506945, Longitude: -0.1275


Birth

Matches 1 to 27 of 27

   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Birth    Person ID   Tree 
1 Harriet  About 1818England, United Kingdom I451947 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
2 Henry's Concubine 3  About 1133England, United Kingdom I1007769 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
3 NN  About 1159England, United Kingdom I1007760 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
4 NN Concubine  About 1170England, United Kingdom I1007788 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
5 Andrews, John Beal  About 1824England, United Kingdom I543055 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
6 Ashworth, Martha  Sunday 07 June 1812England, United Kingdom I452912 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
7 Cheek, Hannah  Wednesday 30 November 1836England, United Kingdom I452900 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
8 Davison, William E.  1861England, United Kingdom I448809 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
9 Driscoll, Catherine  1898England, United Kingdom I89513 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
10 of England, Geoffrey  Tuesday 23 September 1158England, United Kingdom I1243023 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
11 Gifford, Matilda  About 1185England, United Kingdom I1007774 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
12 Hodder, Sarah Anne  1840England, United Kingdom I238791 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
13 Kennedy, H.  About 1900England, United Kingdom I364483 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
14 Kingsley, Anna E.  November 1848England, United Kingdom I452903 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
15 Longespée, Ela FitzWilliam  About 1228England, United Kingdom I1049381 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
16 MacLeod, John  About 1726England, United Kingdom I333131 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
17 Mathews, William  1796England, United Kingdom I451755 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
18 van Mierlo, Rosa Jane  Friday 16 May 1862England, United Kingdom I309815 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
19 de Neustria, Regentes Bathilde  Between 630 and 635England, United Kingdom I30808 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
20 Plantagenêt, Prince Philip  About 1160England, United Kingdom I1243024 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
21 Pocock, Charles  About 1814England, United Kingdom I451945 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
22 Pocock, Elizabeth  About 1863England, United Kingdom I451946 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
23 Sharrett, Elizabeth  Thursday 30 December 1909England, United Kingdom I347452 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
24 Stanlowe, Elizabeth  About 1260England, United Kingdom I1327438 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
25 Tracy, Hawisa [FitzWarin]  About 1186England, United Kingdom I1007772 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
26 Valletort, Joan (Jane) de Vautort  About 1212England, United Kingdom I1007631 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
27 Waters, Ann  About 1740England, United Kingdom I450647 Veenkoloniale voorouders 

Christening

Matches 1 to 1 of 1

   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Christening    Person ID   Tree 
1 Botetourt, Sir John 2nd Lord Botetourt; of Weoley  1318England, United Kingdom I1054602 Veenkoloniale voorouders 

Death

Matches 1 to 27 of 27

   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Death    Person ID   Tree 
1 Ida I Lady of Salisbury  Between 1266 and 1270England, United Kingdom I902217 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
2 Polini  About 1801England, United Kingdom I693133 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
3 Bonke, Louis Johan Marie  Date unknownEngland, United Kingdom I541583 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
4 Boon, Willem Adams  Wednesday 04 October 1826England, United Kingdom I807153 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
5 Brusse, H.C.J.  Friday 18 August 2000England, United Kingdom I605614 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
6 Clobus, Henderika Johanna  2006England, United Kingdom I206725 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
7 af Danmark, Gunhild  Saturday 13 November 1002England, United Kingdom I843018 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
8 FitzAlan, Mary  Before 24 January 1376England, United Kingdom I843785 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
9 Frank, Robert  Saturday 23 May 1953England, United Kingdom I58675 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
10 Goudsmit, Ferdinand Gerardus  Wednesday 05 December 1900England, United Kingdom I322245 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
11 Hamer, Max  Date unknownEngland, United Kingdom I65206 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
12 Heerlijn, Obbe  1993England, United Kingdom I167266 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
13 Holman, Johannes Harmannus  Date unknownEngland, United Kingdom I426664 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
14 de Lara, Lea  Date unknownEngland, United Kingdom I119232 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
15 van Mierlo, Ella E.  Tuesday 24 August 1948England, United Kingdom I309814 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
16 van Mierlo, Rosa Jane  Saturday 16 October 1909England, United Kingdom I309815 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
17 de Poher, Mathwedel  939England, United Kingdom I793907 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
18 Rasker, Albert Fredriks  Tuesday 05 February 1850England, United Kingdom I72490 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
19 Rees Williams, Ella Gwendoline  1979England, United Kingdom I65204 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
20 van Rein, Albert Hendrik  1995England, United Kingdom I268903 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
21 de Rothschild, Ferdinand James Anselm  Saturday 17 December 1898England, United Kingdom I739135 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
22 von Sachsen, Hengist  488England, United Kingdom I434086 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
23 Schreurs, Calixte  Thursday 20 February 1975England, United Kingdom I295281 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
24 Thweng, Margery  Date unknownEngland, United Kingdom I836465 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
25 Tilden Smith, Leslie  Date unknownEngland, United Kingdom I65205 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
26 Tokesen, Pallig  Saturday 13 November 1002England, United Kingdom I793030 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
27 Yurievskaya, Catherine Alexandrovna  Tuesday 22 December 1959England, United Kingdom I737491 Veenkoloniale voorouders 

Occupation

Matches 1 to 2 of 2

   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Occupation    Person ID   Tree 
1 FitzAlan, Earl Richard 10th Earl of Arundel, Knight of the Garter  England, United Kingdom I870431 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
2 of Scotland, John  England, United Kingdom I828463 Veenkoloniale voorouders 

Marriage

Matches 1 to 8 of 8

   Family    Marriage    Family ID   Tree 
1 FitzWilliam / Deincourt  About 1296England, United Kingdom F371152 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
2 Hamer / Rees Williams  England, United Kingdom F26133 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
3 Kennedy / Burgers  England, United Kingdom F143244 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
4 Norge / Héireann  988England, United Kingdom F325307 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
5 Parssens / Collints  England, United Kingdom F92729 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
6 Schendel / Zimmerman  Saturday 30 August 1902England, United Kingdom F75164 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
7 Tilden Smith / Rees Williams  1930England, United Kingdom F26132 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
8 Vroom / Dooyes  About 1958England, United Kingdom F298515 Veenkoloniale voorouders 

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