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| x Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom |
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House of Windsor | Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II |
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known informally as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada,...
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| x Elizabeth I of England |
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Tudor dynasty | Coronation of Elizabeth I of England |
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor...
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| x Harold Godwinson |
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House of Wessex |
Harold Godwinson or Harold II (Old English: Harold Gōdwines sunu; c. 1022 – 14 October 1066) was the last Anglo-Saxon King of England before the Norman Conquest. Harold reigned from 5 January 1066, until his death at the Battle of Hastings on 14...
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| x Henry VIII of England |
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Tudor dynasty |
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was also Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) and claimant to the Kingdom of France. Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor,...
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| x Ine of Wessex |
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House of Wessex |
Ine was King of Wessex from 688 to 726. He was unable to retain the territorial gains of his predecessor, Cædwalla, who had brought much of southern England under his control and expanded West Saxon territory substantially. By the end of Ine's reign...
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| x Cynric of Wessex | House of Wessex |
Cynric of Wessex ruled as king of Wessex from 534 to 560. Everything known about him comes from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There he is stated to have been the son of Cerdic, and also (in the regnal list in the preface) to have been the son of Cerdic...
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| x Alfred the Great |
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House of Wessex |
Alfred the Great (Old English: Ælfrēd, Ælfrǣd, "elf advice"; 849 – 26 October 899), was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred is noted for his defence of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of southern England against the Vikings,...
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| x Cuthwulf of Wessex | House of Wessex |
Cutha (Cuthwulf) was born in 600 in Wessex. His father was Cuthine of Wessex. His paternal grandfather was Ceawlin, king of Wessex. He was an only child.
He married and had one son, Ceolwald.
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| x Aescwine of Essex |
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House of Wessex |
Æscwine, or Erkenwine, Erchenwine, was reputedly the settler from Old Saxony who in 527 founded the Kingdom of Essex (in the area of modern-day England approximately covered by the county of that name), becoming the first king of the region (r. c....
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| x Egbert of Wessex |
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House of Wessex |
Egbert (also spelled Ecgberht) (died 839) was King of Wessex from 802 until 839. His father was Ealhmund of Kent. In the 780s Egbert was forced into exile by Offa of Mercia and Beorhtric of Wessex, but on Beorhtric's death in 802 Egbert returned and...
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| x Aethelheard of Wessex | House of Wessex |
Æthelheard (died 740) (Means roughly 'Noble Stern'), also spelled Ethelheard or Æþelheard, was King of Wessex from 726 to 740. There is an unreliable record of Æthelheard having been the brother-in-law of his predecessor, Ine, but his ancestry is...
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| x Ethelbald of Wessex |
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House of Wessex |
King Æthelbald of Wessex or Ethelbald (Old English Æþelbald) (means roughly 'Noble Bold') was the second and oldest surviving of the five sons of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and Osburga and was born in about 834.
In 850, he received the rank of...
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| x Athelstan of England |
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House of Wessex |
Athelstan or Æthelstan (Old English: Æþelstan, Æðelstān) (c. 895 – 27 October 939), called the Glorious, was the King of England from 924/925 to 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder, and nephew of Æthelflæd of Mercia. Æthelstan's success in...
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| x Penda of Mercia |
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House of Wessex |
Penda (died November 15, 655) was a 7th-century King of Mercia, a kingdom in what is today the English Midlands. A pagan at a time when Christianity was taking hold in many of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Penda participated in the defeat of the...
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| x Ceolwulf of Wessex | House of Wessex |
Ceolwulf, a member of the House of Wessex, became King of Wessex in 597 upon the death of his brother Ceol, because at that time Ceol's son Cynegils was too young to rule.
Ceolwulf reigned for fourteen years and nothing is known of Wessex during his...
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| x Centwine of Wessex |
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House of Wessex |
Centwine (died after 685) was King of Wessex from circa 676 to 685 or 686, although he was perhaps not the only king of the West Saxons at the time.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports that Centwine became king circa 676, succeeding Æscwine. Bede...
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| x Cwichelm of Wessex |
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House of Wessex |
Cwichelm (died circa 636) was an Anglo-Saxon king of the Gewisse, a people in the upper Thames area who later created the kingdom of Wessex. He is usually counted among the Kings of Wessex.
Cwichelm is first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle...
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| x Ethelwulf of Wessex |
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House of Wessex |
Æthelwulf, also spelled Aethelwulf or Ethelwulf; Old English: Æþelwulf, means 'Noble Wolf' (c. 795 – 858) was the elder son of King Egbert of Wessex. He conquered Kent on behalf of his father in 825. Thereafter he was styled King of Kent until he...
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| x Cynegils of Wessex |
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House of Wessex |
Cynegils (died c. 642) was an Anglo-Saxon king of the West Saxons in the early 7th century.
Cynegils is traditionally considered to have been King of Wessex, but the familiar kingdoms of the so-called Heptarchy had not yet formed from the patchwork...
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| x Ethelred of Wessex |
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House of Wessex |
King Æthelred of Wessex (Old English: Æþelræd, sometimes rendered as Ethelred) (c. 840 – 23 April 871) was the fourth son of King Æthelwulf, and an older brother of Alfred the Great. He succeeded his brother, Æthelberht (Ethelbert), as King of...
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| x Cuthred of Wessex | House of Wessex |
Cuthred of Wessex or Cuþræd (died 756) was the monarch of Wessex from 740 (739 according to Simeon of Durham, 741 according to John of Worcester) until 756. He succeeded Æthelheard, his relative and possibly his brother.
Cuthred inherited the...
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| x Ceol of Wessex | House of Wessex |
Ceol (also known as Ceola or Ceolric) was one of the West Saxon kings of Wessex.
He was the son of Cutha the son of Cynric of Wessex. He reigned from either 591 AD or 592 to 597 after deposing his uncle Ceawlin in a battle fought at a place called...
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| x Edward the Elder |
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House of Wessex |
Edward the Elder (Old English: Ēadweard se Ieldra) (c. 870 – 17 July 924) was an English king. He became king in 899 upon the death of his father, Alfred the Great. His court was at Winchester, previously the capital of Wessex. He captured the...
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| x Ceawlin of Wessex |
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House of Wessex |
Ceawlin (also spelled "Ceaulin" or "Caelin") (died c. 593) was a king of Wessex, in what is now southwestern England. He may have been the son of Cynric of Wessex, and the grandson of Cerdic of Wessex, who is recorded in early sources as the leader...
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| x Cynewulf of Wessex | House of Wessex |
Cynewulf of Wessex (died 786) (meaning "kin wolf") was the king of Wessex from 757 until his death in 786.
Cynewulf became king after his predecessor, Sigeberht, was deposed. He may have come to power under the influence of Æthelbald of Mercia,...
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| x Edmund Ironside |
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House of Wessex |
Edmund Ironside or Edmund II (c. 988/993 – 30 November 1016) was king of the English from 23 April to 30 November 1016. The cognomen "Ironside" refers to his efforts to fend off a Danish invasion led by King Cnut. His authority was limited to Wessex...
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| x Cenwalh of Wessex |
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House of Wessex |
Cenwealh (died 674?), also Cenwalh or Coenwalh, was an Anglo-Saxon king traditionally counted as a king of Wessex. The creation of the kingdom of Wessex began in his reign.
Bede states that Cenwealh was the son of the King Cynegils baptised by...
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| x Ælfweard of Wessex | House of Wessex |
Ælfweard (904 – 2 August 924) was the second son of Edward the Elder, the eldest born to his second wife Ælfflæd.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle simply states that Ælfweard died soon after his father's death on 17 July 924 and that they were buried...
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| x Sigeberht of Wessex | House of Wessex |
Sigeberht of Wessex (Sigeberht means roughly 'Magnificent Victory') was the monarch of Wessex from 756 to 757.
Sigeberht succeeded his distant relative Cuthred, but was then accused of acting unjustly. He was removed from power by a council of...
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| x Caedwalla of Wessex |
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House of Wessex |
Cædwalla (c. 659 – 20 April 689) was the King of Wessex from approximately 685 until he abdicated in 688. His name is derived from the British Cadwallon. He was exiled as a youth, and during this time attacked the South Saxons and killed their king,...
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| x Cenfus of Wessex | House of Wessex |
Cenfus (died 674) was briefly the king of Wessex during 674. He was succeeded by his son Aescwine.
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| x Beorhtric of Wessex | House of Wessex |
Beorhtric (died 802) (means 'Magnificent ruler') was the King of Wessex from 786 until his death.
In 786, Cynewulf, king of Wessex, was killed by the exiled noble Cyneheard, brother of the former King Sigeberht. Beorhtric's successful bid for the...
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| x Seaxburh of Wessex | House of Wessex |
Seaxburh was a wife of King Cenwalh of Wessex and according to tradition, ruled Wessex as Queen for a year following Cenwalh's death. She should not be confused with her near-contemporary, Saint Seaxburh of Ely, daughter of King Anna of East Anglia....
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| x Ethelbert of Wessex |
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House of Wessex |
Æthelberht or Ethelbert (Old English: Æþelberht, meaning "Magnificent Noble") was the third son of Æthelwulf of Wessex and was born around 835. In 855 he became under-king of Kent while his father, Æthelwulf, visited Rome. His brother Æthelbald was...
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| x Cerdic of Wessex |
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House of Wessex |
Cerdic (from the early British name represented by modern Welsh Caradog; died 534) was the King of Wessex (519–534) and is regarded as the ancestor of all subsequent Kings of Wessex (See House of Wessex family tree), and as such an ancestor of...
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| x Edward the Confessor |
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House of Wessex |
Edward the Confessor (c. 1003 – 5 January 1066), son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066 ...
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| x Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke |
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Chakri Dynasty |
Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramintharamaha Chakri Borommanat Phra Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรมินทรมหาจักรีบรมนาถฯ พระพุทธยอดฟ้าจุฬาโลก; RTGS: —Phra Phuttha Yot Fa Chula Lok), posthumously added "the Great", or Rama I (20 March 1736 –...
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| x Buddha Loetla Nabhalai |
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Chakri Dynasty |
Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramenthramaha Isarasundhorn Phra Buddha Loetla Nabhalai (Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรเมนทรมหาอิศรสุนทรฯ พระพุทธเลิศหล้านภาลัย; RTGS: —Itsarasunthon Phra Phuttha Loet La Naphalai), or Rama II (24 February 1767 – 21 July 1824), was...
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| x Jessadabodindra |
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Chakri Dynasty |
Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramintharamaha Jessadabodindra Phra Nangklao Chao Yu Hua (Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรมินทรมหาเจษฏาบดินทร์ฯ พระนั่งเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว; RTGS: —Chetsadabodin Phra Nang Klao Chao Yu Hua), or Rama III ( 31 March 1787 – 2 April 1851), was...
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| x Mongkut |
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Chakri Dynasty |
Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramenthramaha Mongkut Phra Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua (Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรเมนทรมหามงกุฎฯ พระจอมเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว), or Rama IV, known in foreign countries as King Mongkut (18 October 1804-1 October 1868) was the fourth monarch of...
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| x Chulalongkorn |
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Chakri Dynasty |
Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramintharamaha Chulalongkorn Phra Chunla Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua (Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรมินทรมหาจุฬาลงกรณ์ฯ พระจุลจอมเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว), or Rama V (20 September 1853 – 23 October 1910) was the fifth monarch of Siam under the...
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| x Vajiravudh |
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Chakri Dynasty |
Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramentharamaha Vajiravudh Phra Mongkut Klao Chao Yu Hua (Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรเมนทรมหาวชิราวุธฯ พระมงกุฎเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว), or Phra Bat Somdet Phra Ramathibodi Si Sintharamaha Vajiravudh Phra Mongkut Klao Chao Yu Hua (Thai:...
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| x Prajadhipok |
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Chakri Dynasty |
Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramintharamaha Prajadhipok Phra Pok Klao Chao Yu Hua (Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรมินทรมหาประชาธิปกฯ พระปกเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว), or Rama VII (8 November 1893-30 May 1941) was the seventh monarch of Siam under the House of Chakri. He...
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| x Ananda Mahidol |
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Chakri Dynasty |
Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramentharamaha Ananda Mahidol Phra Atthamaramathibodin (Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรเมนทรมหาอานันทมหิดลฯ พระอัฐมรามาธิบดินทร; RTGS: —Ananthamahidon Phra Atthamaramathibodin), or Rama VIII (20 September 1925–9 June 1946) was the...
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| x Bhumibol Adulyadej |
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Chakri Dynasty |
Bhumibol Adulyadej (Royal Institute: Phumiphon Adunyadet; Thai: ภูมิพลอดุลยเดช, pronounced [pʰuːmipʰon adunjadeːt]( listen); see full title below) (born 5 December 1927), is the current King of Thailand. Publicly acclaimed "the Great" (Thai: มหาราช,...
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| x Sri Indraditya |
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His Majestry King Sri Indraditya (also Sri Intraditya, Si Inthratit and other variations) is said to be founder of the Phra Ruang dynasty of the Sukhothai kingdom. He ruled between the years of 1238 and circa 1270 C.E.
Initially, he served as the...
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| x Pho Khun Ban Muang |
Ban Muang was King of Sukhothai (1257-1277). He was preceded by Pho Khun Sri Indrathit and was superseded by Pho Khun Ramkhamhaeng.
Sukhothai kingdom
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| x Ramkhamhaeng the Great |
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Ram Khamhaeng (Thai: พ่อขุนรามคำแหงมหาราช; Pho Khun Ramkhamhaeng; birth: around 1237-1247; death: 1298) was the third king of the Phra Ruang dynasty, ruling the Sukhothai Kingdom (a forerunner of the modern kingdom of Thailand) from 1279-1298,...
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| x Lithai |
Lithai (Thai: พญาลิไท), also known as Thammaracha I (พระมหาธรรมราชาที่ 1) was a king of the Sukhothai kingdom, reigning from roughly 1346 until his death in 1374. Lithai was the son of Lelithai, also known as Loethai. The exact chronology of Lithai...
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| x Ramathibodi I |
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Uthong (Thai: สมเด็จพระเจ้าอู่ทอง) or Ramathibodi I (Thai: สมเด็จพระรามาธิบดีที่ 1) (1314 – 1369) was the first king of the kingdom Ayutthaya (now part of Thailand), reigning from 1351 to 1369. He was known as Prince U Thong before he ascended to...
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| x Ramesuan |
King Ramesuan (Thai: สมเด็จพระราเมศวร, 1339 – 1395), son of king Ramathibodi I, reigned as the second and fifth king of the kingdom of Ayutthaya. When King Ramathibodi ascended to the throne of Ayuthaya, he sent King Ramesuan to reign in Lopburi....
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| x Borommaracha I |
Borommaracha I (Thai: สมเด็จพระบรมราชาธิราชที่ 1, RTGS: Boromma Rachathirat I) or Khun Luang Pa Ngua (Thai: ขุนหลวงพะงั่ว) (1370- 1388 A.D.) is the third king of Ayutthaya Kingdom. His name Khun Luang Pa Ngua literary means the fifth price.
As the...
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| x Borommatrailokanat |
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Somdet Phra Ramesuan Boromma Trailokanat Bopit (Thai: สมเด็จพระราเมศวรบรมไตรโลกนาถบพิตร,1431 – 1488) was the king of Ayutthaya from 1448 to 1488. He was also known as Phra Chao Chang Pueak (Thai: พระเจ้าช้างเผือก) for his gain of auspicious white...
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| x Boromarachathirat III |
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Somdet Phra Borommaracha Thirat III (Thai: สมเด็จพระบรมราชาธิราชที่ 3) was the king of Ayutthaya from 1488 to 1491. Formerly Prince Borommaracha, Borommaracha III was the son of Trailokanat. Prince Borommaracha served as Trailokanat’s regent in...
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| x Chairacha |
Phrabat Somdet Phra Chairachathirat (Thai: สมเด็จพระไชยราชาธิราช) (Reigned 1534-1546) was King of Ayutthaya (Siam). His reign was remarked of the first war between Siam and Burma and the influx of Portuguese traders and warfare technology.
Prince...
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| x Queen Sri Suriyothai |
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Queen Suriyothai (also known as Somdet Phra Suriyothai, Thai: สมเด็จพระสุริโยทัย) was a legendary queen during the 16th century Ayutthaya period of Siam (now Thailand). She is famous for having given her life in defense of her king. The meaning of...
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| x Maha Thammaracha |
His Majesty King Maha Thammaracha (full Thai title: สมเด็จพระมหาธรรมราชา; RTGS: Somdet Phra Maha Thammaracha) was the 24th monarch of Ayuthia and the fifth monarch to come from the House of Sukhōday,
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| x Naresuan |
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Somdet Phra Naresuan Maharaj (Thai: สมเด็จพระนเรศวรมหาราช) or Somdet Phra Sanpet II (Thai: สมเด็จพระสรรเพชญ์ที่ 2) (1555, 25 April - 1605) was the King of Ayutthaya kingdom from 1590 until his death in 1605. Naresuan was one of Siam's most revered...
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| x Ekathotsarot |
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Prabat Somdet Phra Sanpet III (Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระสรรเพชญ์ที่ 3) or Somdet Phra Ekatotsarot (Thai: สมเด็จพระเอกาทศรถ;-1610) was the King of Ayutthaya from 1605 to 1610 succeeding his brother Naresuan. His reign was mostly peaceful as Siam was then...
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| x Sri Saowaphak |
Phrabat Somdet Phra Sanphet VI (Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระสรรเพชญที่ ๔) or Somdet Phra Si Saowaphak (Thai: สมเด็จพระศรีเสาวภาตย์) (- 1611) was a short-reigning king of Ayutthaya of the Sukhothai dynasty in 1610. Prince Si Saowaphak was the son of...
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