The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great

Britain from the 10th centurywhen it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon

kingdomsuntil 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of
Great Britain.
In the early 10th century the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, united by thelstan
(r. 927939), became part of the North Sea Empire of Cnut the Great, a
personal union between England, Denmark and Norway. The Norman
conquest of England in 1066 led to the transfer of the English capital city
and chief royal residence from the Anglo-Saxon one at Winchester to
Westminster, and the City of London quickly established itself as England's
largest and principal commercial centre.[1]
Histories of the kingdom of England from the Norman conquest of 1066
conventionally distinguish periods named after successive ruling dynasties:
Norman 10661154, Plantagenet 11541485, Tudor 14851603 and Stuart
16031714 (interrupted by the Interregnum (England) of 16491660).
Dynastically, all English monarchs after 1066 ultimately claim descent from
the Normans; the distinction of the Plantagenets is merely conventional,
beginning with Henry II (reigned 11541189) as from that time, the Angevin
kings became "more English in nature"; the houses of Lancaster and York
are both Plantagenet cadet branches, the Tudor dynasty claimed descent
from Edward III via John Beaufort and James VI and I of the House of
Stuart claimed descent from Henry VII via Margaret Tudor.