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Henry VIII
One of England's most famous monarchs was a foul-tempered, gluttonous, bloodthirsty tyrant who, as well as ordering the executions of two of the women who had the misfortune to marry him, had an estimated 57,000 people executed during his 36-year reign.
1. Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon (604-562 B.C.) The granddaddy of all mad kings is King Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian ruler whose first-person account of a seven-year descent into animal-like insanity is one of the most fascinating sections of the Old Testament book of Daniel.
1. John (r. 1199-1216) Nicknamed 'Bad King John', John I acquired a villainous image that has been reproduced time and again in popular culture, including film adaptations of Robin Hood and a play by Shakespeare.
George III is widely remembered for two things: losing the American colonies and going mad. This is far from the whole truth. George's direct responsibility for the loss of the colonies is not great.
Sweyn Forkbeard, England's forgotten king, ruled for just 5 weeks. He was declared King of England on Christmas Day in 1013 and ruled until his death on 3rd February 1014, although he was never crowned.
Without suffering a single defeat, Alexander led his men to victories across the Persian territories of Asia Minor, Egypt and Syria. In 331 BC, his outnumbered army faced off against the Persian King Darius III at the Battle of Gaugamela.
He is Cyrus the Great of Persia, who in the mid-6th century BC ruled the greatest empire the world had ever known. He started as the chief of a downtrodden tribe that overthrew its masters, and he went on to ensure that for the next couple of centuries no other nation would conquer his people again.
The correct answer is Aurangzeb.
Incensed with this allegiance and the king's efforts to promote the 'new' faith, the nobility began to conspire against him with the help of his brother Boleslav. In 935, the cunning sibling invited Wenceslas to a feast where he was murdered on the steps of a church on his way to mass.
The longest-lived king was Edward Balliol of Scotland, who died at age 83 or 84 in 1367. Note: Edward Balliol's reign is disputed. The longest-lived undisputed king was George III, who died at the age of 81 years, 239 days in 1820.
An emperor had the highest power in the whole empire. He represented the empire as a whole which was further divided into further kingdoms. Most kings were engaged in battle during those times to expand their kingdom.
George II, at the age of 60, was the last British sovereign to fight alongside his soldiers, at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743 in Germany, against the French.
"According to a later Mesopotamian tradition enshrined in the Sumerian King List, the first king was Alulim, ruler of the city of Eridu.
However, numerous sources cite King Sargon of Akkad as the first king in human history, or rather, the first king that was not considered a myth or legend. Sargon is believed to have ruled over a vast and agriculturally rich empire called Mesopotamia circa 2330 BCE.
The conventional story of why Edward VIII came to abdicate in 1936 is well known and hardly needs any detailed rehearsal. The King abandoned the throne because he was determined on marrying the American divorcée Wallis Simpson, 'the woman I love', a union rejected by the political and royal Establishment.
Edward the Confessor died childless on 5th January 1066, leaving no direct heir to the throne.
King Oyo of Toro, Uganda, currently holds the world record for youngest reigning monarch — he was only 3 when he was crowned, and is currently 27. Oyo, who leads the Toro kingdom of Uganda, was crowned in 1995, at age 3.
The King ascended to the throne at the age of 73, making Charles III the oldest person to become monarch in the United Kingdom. He was born at Buckingham Palace on 14 November 1948, four years before his mother's incredible reign began.
The first king of England
It was Edward's son, Æthelstan, who first controlled the whole area that would form the kingdom of England. Æthelstan's sister had married Sihtric, the Viking ruler of the Northumbrians. When Sihtric died in 927, Æthelstan succeeded to that kingdom.
The names of many of the kings killed in conflict remain famous to this day. Richard I of England, the Lionheart, died during a siege in France in 1199. A similar fate was met by William I, the Conqueror, who also suffered fatal injuries while fighting in France.