What was the origin of the English Monarchy?

Answer 1

Answer 1:The origins of Monarchy as a concept or institution is really simple. One side formed a larger and/or better equipped army than their neighbour's and used this threat to bully neighbour's into giving up their land or just used their army to slaughter any opponents within the neighbour's ranks who did not concede through the threat of murder which is what it was really or threat of violence.

All Monarchy comes from robbing land and building your empire that way then being seen as somehow being special because you are born into the family who owns all that land they gained by thieving it through murdering or threatening their neighbours with violence.

Although of course it is not the fault of present Royals that Monarchy is descended and based on land theft through threat and murder I notice none of them do anything when they know what it's all based on to,
on moral grounds,
refuse to accept the millions/billions they get from the public purse;

but certainly as that is the real basis for Monarchy
I find it moronic and ludicrous that anyone should ever respect the institution of Monarchy.

We would not automatically give ancestors of an ordinary murderer millions/billions from the public purse would we ?

So why on earth do we show so much respect to monarchy and give them so much when its based on land robbery and murder/threats of violence ? Most of the public if they had any brains when monarchies

were built up would never agree to it unless forced to through threats of violence and scared of being killed if they could be seen clearly to argue against it.

Answer 2:

After the barbarian migrations of the fifth and sixth centuries had subdued or displaced the Celtic Britons, the various Anglo-Saxon

peoples formed several kingdoms in England. The kingdom of Wessex became the most powerful and eventually conquered and absorbed all the others. The house of Windsor and all previous English dynasties, except for the Danish kings, can trace themselves back to the kings of Wessex. Michael Montagne

Monarchy origins:The current style of British monarchy, that is to say, a constitutional monarchy, dates from 1660, and the restoration of the monarchy. The previous style, absolute monarchy had been going since the conquest. However, the rules of succession have changed as well. Nowadays, the laws are that of primogeniture, that is to say, the eldest son, then the next son etc, then the eldest daughter, etc. However, the successor in pre-Stuart

rule was much more at the discretion of the previous monarch. For example, Henry I was succeeded by Stephen, his nephew. However, he had a legitimate daughter, Matilda. She then launched a war against Stephen which engulfed most of his reign. Interestingly, Stephen, despite having two legitimate sons, was succeeded by Henry II, son of Matilda. This illustrates the point that, although the monarch had some choice in their successor, there was another power, or Stephen would have chosen his own son. The Witan,

a council of wise men dating back to the height of the Saxon times, had the power to make a king. It was a kind of elected monarchy. They would choose who they thought was the most worthy from a particular family, so there was a limit to the choice. This family claimed descent from the great Celtic hero, Cerdic

or Cerdig,

who, it was claimed was a descendant of Woden

or Odin, the chief of the Saxon deities. This is how kings were made throughout the Saxon period, which is why there were comparatively

few weak kings, Ethelred II being one of the few. Incidentally, his nickname 'Unready' comes from the Saxon word 'Unraed',

meaning 'Ill-advised',

so he may have just been easily influenced rather than unprepared. Sorry for digressing, I just thought it was interesting.