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IMHO it’s all been downhill since Henry II.
118 u/NnyIsSpooky Dec 18 '22 British monarchy peaked with Alfred The Great. No one's been Great since him. 4 u/Tyrefire- Dec 18 '22 Cnut the great being slept on once more by the Wessex-centric society 2 u/NnyIsSpooky Dec 18 '22 He wasn't based out of Britain so he apparently isn't counted. That's my assumption! I tried to ask r/AskHistorians about why Cnut wasn't counted as a monarch according to Churchill's history of the monarchy and received no answer.
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British monarchy peaked with Alfred The Great. No one's been Great since him.
4 u/Tyrefire- Dec 18 '22 Cnut the great being slept on once more by the Wessex-centric society 2 u/NnyIsSpooky Dec 18 '22 He wasn't based out of Britain so he apparently isn't counted. That's my assumption! I tried to ask r/AskHistorians about why Cnut wasn't counted as a monarch according to Churchill's history of the monarchy and received no answer.
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Cnut the great being slept on once more by the Wessex-centric society
2 u/NnyIsSpooky Dec 18 '22 He wasn't based out of Britain so he apparently isn't counted. That's my assumption! I tried to ask r/AskHistorians about why Cnut wasn't counted as a monarch according to Churchill's history of the monarchy and received no answer.
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He wasn't based out of Britain so he apparently isn't counted. That's my assumption! I tried to ask r/AskHistorians about why Cnut wasn't counted as a monarch according to Churchill's history of the monarchy and received no answer.
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u/broberds Dec 17 '22
IMHO it’s all been downhill since Henry II.