Two Questions in One : How many English Kings and Queens have there been ...?

Question

and how did each of the King Henry's die? I heard that King Henry V was murdered by his doctor when by poisen that was mixed with a medication ...

Answer 1

Define 'English King'?  Do you only want the ruling monarch, or the king's spouse as well?  (Only the spouses of Mary I and Mary II, if I remember correctly, were considered 'kings')  Are you counting the Saxon and Danish kings as English?  Or do you only want the number of monarchs since the Norman Conquest?

The first person to call himself 'King of the English' was King Offa of Mercia, sometime in the mid-770s AD.  However, there is only a continuous list of kings starting with Egbert, King of Wessex, from the beginning of the 9th century.  

So, counting Offa and then starting from Egbert, there have been 56 monarchs of England (counting the Danish kings and Edward V, but not counting Lady Jane Grey, and counting William and Mary as separate).  During Anne's reign, the title changed to monarch of Great Britain (and then later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) and there have been 12 monarchs since then (also counting Anne)

So, all told, you've had 67 reigning kings and queens of England.

Answer 2

British, you mean?

Answer 3

Are you including British Kings and Queens too? Do you want only rulers, or are you counting queens of ruling kings?

Henry I: Died of ptomaine poisoning, apparently after having eaten some lampreys.

Henry II: Massive hemorrahage 2 days after signing terms with King Phillippe II of France; surviving sons Richard and John had aligned themselves with Phillippe against their father. His broken spirit probably had something to do with the timing.

Henry III: Already suffering from dementia, it was made worse by the death of his brother Richard. Died 7 months later at age 65, which was quite old for those days.

Henry IV: Suffered from an unknown illness which caused  serious attacks in his later years and eventually died from it.

Henry V: Became ill during the winter of 1421-22, probably from dystentery, and died.

Henry VI: Stabbed to death while imprisoned by the forces of Edward IV.

Henry VII: Failing health, including bouts of gout and asthma.

Henry VIII: He was extremely overweight at the end of his life, partially caused by a jousting accident to his leg that never healed properly. He also suffered from boils and possibly gout, syphilis, and/or diabetes. All this contributed to his death at age 55.

Answer 4

New York has a lot of queens, too