-----------------------+----------------------+------------------------- ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS. | FRENCH KINGS. | Prominent Events in | | French History. -----------------------+----------------------+------------------------- Evacuation of the | | Romans, 410 | | | | Saxon and Anglian | Merovingian Kings | invasions, _circa_ | from 481 | 450-550 | | | | | Mayors of the | Battle of Tours, 732. | Palace, 687-741 | (Charles Martel | | defeated the Saracens) | Carolingians, 741 | | | | Charlemagne, 771 | | | Egbert (first overlord | | of England), | | 802 | | | | Alfred the Great | The later | Coming of the Northmen. (seven other Saxon | Carolingian Kings | Rollo, the leader, Kings), 871 | from 814 | became first Duke of | | Normandy, 912 | | Ethelred the Unready, | Hugh Capet, 987 | 978 | | | | | Robert the Pious, | | or Debonair, 996 | | | Edmund Ironside, | | 1016 | | | | Cnut, 1017 | Henri I., 1031 | | | Harold Harefoot, | | 1036 | | | | Hardicanute, 1040 | | | | Edward the Confessor, | |Henri I. assists William 1042 | | the Norman to conquer | | insurgent barons at the | | Battle of Val es dunes | | Harold II., 1066 | Philippe I., 1060 | | | William I. (the | |Conquest of England by Conqueror), 1066 | | William of Normandy, | | 1066 | | William II.