• the curfew law associated with the curfew bell started by Alfred the Great was abolished by Henry I of England?
• the church of Monkton Deverill was dedicated to King and Saint Alfred the Great?
• Alfred the Great's taking of London in 886 was followed by his treaty with Guthrum, the Viking ruler of East Anglia?

Facts on topics related to Alfred the Great

Edward the Elder

• Ælfwynn became the second woman to rule the Mercians when her mother Æthelflæd died in 918, but was deposed by King Edward the Elder and sent into exile in December of that year?

Cnut the Great

• King Cnut the Great ordered the murder of Eadric Streona and Northman, the eldest son of Leofwine, Ealdorman of the Hwicce, in 1017?

Athelstan of England

• the drowning of Edwin, son of Edward the Elder, half-brother of King Athelstan of England, in 933 was described as an execution and a suicide by medieval English historians?

Edward the Confessor

• King Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) granted Regenbald, a royal clerk, the status of a bishop without the actual office?
• after King Edward the Confessor ordered the death of Rhys ap Rhydderch, Rhys was killed and his head brought to Edward in January 1053?

Oliver Cromwell

• Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War?
• before John Parker became Archbishop of Tuam and of Dublin, he had been imprisoned by Oliver Cromwell's forces as a suspected Royalist spy?
• in 1648, Oliver Cromwell sent letters to Haverfordwest Castle in west Wales and threatened to have the townsfolk imprisoned unless the castle was destroyed?
• portrait painter John Michael Wright painted both Charles II and the daughter of Oliver Cromwell?
• the statue of the Virgin and Child in the porch of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford was cited as evidence in Archbishop Laud's execution trial, and has bullet holes made by Oliver Cromwell's troops?

Henry VIII of England

• 58 ships (one pictured) of the 16th-century navy of Henry VIII of England were illustrated in the Anthony Roll?
• Lorenzo Campeggio, the cardinal protector of England during the English Reformation, determined that Henry VIII's marriage could not be annulled?
• Sir Edward Rogers (pictured) was an Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII of England who rose to become Comptroller of the Household to Henry's daughter Elizabeth I?
• Elizabeth Barton was executed for high treason in 1534 for prophesying the death of King Henry VIII?
• Sir John Luttrell, an English soldier and diplomat under Henry VIII and Edward VI, was the subject of an allegorical portrait (pictured) by Hans Eworth celebrating peace with France and Scotland?
• Lucas Horenbout was "King's Painter" to King Henry VIII and the founder of the English tradition of the portrait miniature, painting Henry and several of his wives?
• Newark Park, a Tudor hunting lodge in Gloucestershire, was built in 1544 for a Groom of the Bedchamber to King Henry VIII?
• Padfield in Derbyshire belonged to William the Conqueror, but was given away by his heirs, firstly Henry I, then Henry II and then Henry VIII?
• Thomas Stanley was an officer of the Royal Mint at the Tower of London under four monarchs—Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I?
• William Scrots, King's Painter to Henry VIII and his son Edward VI, was paid a salary twice as large as that of his predecessor, Hans Holbein?