Guilliame le Batarde claimed the crown of the English as the legitimate heir of Ethelred, so he did not claim to be the first King of England. Why should we disagree with him?

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... the French quiz, which starts in 843, when there was a clear French monarch. (Which, incidentally, is why there are only sixteen Louis', whereas the last one is numbered Louis XVIII)
There was a king of the Franks much earlier. IIRC Clovis is the first. The French enumeration recognises this because there is no Charles I, thats Charlemagne.