Following the Norman Conquest, the kings of England were identified in contemporary documents not by the regnal numbers we know them by today, but by …
REGNAL NUMBERS: “KING EDWARD, SON OF KING EDWARD…”
Edward III
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AT COURT
After the Norman Conquest the nobility of England medieval French. English was slow to be accepted by the courts of the English kings…but with the efforts of Edward III, Henry IV and Henry V, English, after many centuries, once more became the language of English kings.
