Why do they call him Edward I when he's actually the fourth King Edward? Shouldn't we call him Edward IV?
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Numbers are only applied to kings after the conquest.
>>18050080Regnal numbers weren't used in England until the very end of the middle ages. It was only after they had three Edwards in a row and needed a way to differentiate them, so they became the first Edward, second Edward and third Edward. This was then applied back retroatively to the previous kings. Some early uses of regnal numbers in England did start counting from the Anglo-Saxon Edwards, but by that time the custom that it was those three Edwards who were 1st 2nd and 3rd was already well set, and I guess people found it too confusing to change the numbers, so they stayed. From this a tradition developed that post Norman Kings were numbered and Anglo-Saxon Kings weren't
>>18050096You have to have a twisted up evil looking face in the thumbnail as well even though you're talking about bread or gardening
>>18050106>Regnal numbers weren't used in England until the very end of the middle ages.I believe they were, I remember seeing some early issues with how to name Henry III, with him sometimes being referred to as Henry IV early in his reign because very technically the actual Henry III was Henry the Young King, and at just some point they decided to refer to him as the third Henry instead.
>>18050080in his reign documents would specifically state 'first after the conquest', and that stylistic choice continued until the 16th century or so
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>>18050096I don't get it
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Edward III and the ones prior were from a separate dynasty.
>>18052122The Plantagenet claimed to be part of the same dynasty as the kings of Wessex. But even the German Kings and Emperors numbered themselves regardless of dynasty, even Philip II named himself the second after Philip the Arab.
