CrownDB
97 monarchs and royal houses of the world, from pharaohs and Roman emperors to Ottoman sultans and the kings and queens of today. A factual record of reigns, dynasties and dates.
Famed Monarchs
Elizabeth II
Britain's longest serving monarch, reigning 70 years and 214 days across fifteen prime ministers from Churchill to Truss. She...
Henry VIII
Married six times and broke with Rome when the pope refused an annulment, making himself supreme head of the Church of England...
Louis XIV
The Sun King, whose reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any monarch of a sovereign state that can be verified to the...
Cleopatra VII
Last active pharaoh of Egypt, of Greek Macedonian descent, who spoke Egyptian and several languages. Her alliances, and children...
Qin Shi Huang
First emperor of unified China, whose armies finished the conquest of the warring states by 221 BC. He standardized script...
Suleiman the Magnificent
Tenth and greatest Ottoman sultan, called the Lawgiver by his own people. He took Belgrade, Rhodes and Hungary, reached the gates...
Charlemagne
King of the Franks crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III in Rome on Christmas Day 800. He united most of western Europe...
Peter the Great
Two meters tall, he studied shipbuilding in Dutch yards, then built a navy and a new capital, Saint Petersburg, founded in 1703...
Elizabeth I
The last Tudor monarch, never married and styled the Virgin Queen. Her reign saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588...