Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother's name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba. Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the years of Jehoiada the priest.
Jehoash was 7 years old when his reign began, and he reigned for 40 years. (2 Kings 12:1, 2 Chronicles 24:1) He was succeeded by his son, Amaziah of Judah.
Josiah was the grandson of Manasseh, king of Judah, and ascended the throne at age eight after the assassination of his father, Amon, in 641.
How old was Louis XIV when he acceded to the throne? Louis XIV succeeded his father as king of France on May 14, 1643, at the age of four years eight months.
Edward VI became king at the age of nine upon the death of his father, Henry VIII, and a Regency was created. Although he was intellectually precocious (fluent in Greek and Latin, he kept a full journal of his reign), he was not, however, physically robust.
Richard's father died in 1376, leaving Richard as heir apparent to his grandfather, King Edward III; upon the latter's death, the 10-year-old Richard succeeded to the throne.
Murad IV became sultan of the Ottoman Empire at age 11 in 1623. He was determined to quash rebelliousness against the government, so he closed down coffee and wine shops, where he suspected citizens would gather to plot against him.
His coronation will take place at Westminster Abbey in London on May 6. Charles, 73, was born at Buckingham Palace in London in 1948. He was just 3 years old when he became the heir apparent as his mother acceded to the throne as queen, following the death of her father, King George VI.
Son of the Duke of Burgundy and Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, and great-grandson of Louis XIV, Louis XV became heir apparent upon the death of his father in 1712. He then became king in 1715 at just five years of age upon the death of Louis XIV.
Born in Edinburgh Castle on 19 June 1566, James was the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots and her second husband, Lord Darnley. He was less than a year old when he saw his mother for the last time, and thirteen months old when he was crowned King of Scots in Stirling after her forced abdication.
Regarding the Hezekiah/Manasseh coregency, Thiele observes Manasseh began his reign when he was 12 years old (2 Kings 21:1), and then comments, "A Hebrew lad when he reached the age of twelve was a "son of the law" and had become gadol.
The youngest monarch is currently Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 3 June 1980).
The youngest ever monarch, Mary, Queen of Scots, became queen in 1542 when she was just six days old. She was less than a week old at the time that her father, James V of Scotland, died.
"Maher-shalal-hash-baz" (/ˌmeɪhər ʃælæl ˈhæʃ bɑːz/; Hebrew: מַהֵר שָׁלָל חָשׁ בַּז, Mahēr šālāl ḥāš baz – "Hurry to the spoils!" or "He has made haste to the plunder!") was the second prophetic name mentioned in Isaiah chapter 8–9.
Shapur II, who ruled Sasanian Empire of Persia, was a monarch immediately upon his birth in 309 AD because his father had recently died. But legend has it that he was crowned while still in his mother's womb. (Literally: They apparently put a crown on top of his mother's belly.)
His only legitimate son to survive infancy, Edward VI, became king at nine years old and died when he was only 15.
The youngest of them all is King Henry VI, the only son of King Henry V, who died when his son was just eight months old. While he officially took the throne as a baby, the day-to-day rule was headed by his uncle and the former king's brother, John, Duke of Bedford, as the senior regent of the realm.
Youngest. The youngest British monarch at the start of her reign was Mary, Queen of Scots, who became queen aged 6 days in 1542.
On Christmas day 1066 William was crowned king of England and the land became ruled by Normans. So, 1066 was the year when England had three kings: First Edward the Confessor; then Harold Godwinson; Harold the Second of England; and finally, Duke William of Normandy; William the Conqueror.
At present, Harry is fifth in line to the throne and this is a birthright "privilege" that cannot be revoked without an Act of Parliament being in place.
Edward is one of the few English kings of the time period to apparently be faithful to his wife. Eleanor accompanied her husband on Crusade and on other military campaigns. The couple had 14-16 children, but only six survived childhood.
Since 1900, the youngest serving state leader has been 192-day-old Fuad II, King of Egypt (left), while the oldest has been 96-year-old Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms (right).
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, who studied at Magdalen College, was crowned King of Bhutan on 6 November 2008. He becomes the world's youngest monarch.