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I've got that humans have presumably been in Narnia prior to the reign of Jadis, as per Frank and Helen being there. We know that there were plenty of humans after her reign, as we can see in other books.
What I'd like to know is, where were the humans DURING her reign, and what had happened to them? Obviously, with the Pevensie siblings being crowned, a human dynasty is reinstated following the defeat of Jadis, but what about between The Magician's Nephew and that happening?
From later books in the series, most notably The Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle, it explained that Narnia is both the name of the fantastical world The Chronicles of Narnia mostly takes place in, as well as the name for the country/empire we're first introduced to.
The other countries that we see the most of are Archenland, a Kingdom to the south of Narnia, and the Calormene Empire, south of the Great Desert, which was also south of Narnia.
From the events of The Horse and His Boy, it's clear that there were Humans still living in both Archenland and Calormene during Jadis's conquest of the country of Narnia. Presumably the humans we meet later in the series were descended from those, since it's made clear that none of the Pevensies had children of their own.
Not a lot of information is given about the time period following the rule of King Frank and Queen Helen, and leading up to the day that Lucy Pevensie first steps through the magical wardrobe and into the land of Narnia. Approximately 1,000 years passes between these two events, so what happens in-between?
We don't have information about this history, quite simply because C.S. Lewis did not write any books about it. Indeed C.S. Lewis personally stated when he wrote the books, he had no pre-conceived plans that he would write anything beyond "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." He said the same thing after he penned "Prince Caspian," and then again following publication of "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader." One book led to the next, and he had seven books by the time he was done. He could easily have written more if he had chosen to do so.
I was curious to learn whether additional information had been written by Lewis, in a like way, perhaps, to what J.R.R. Tolkien wrote with his historical book of Middle Earth, called "The Silmarillion" Although Tolkien never developed it beyond an early draft (subsequently rejected by his publisher), Tolkien's son collaborated with another writer of fantasy.
Hoping that Lewis had created a history of his own, I learned that he had created his own timeline covering major historical events of Narnia, and the surrounding countries and kingdoms of Archenland and Calormen. While I do not have my own copy of this text, it does include a number of references that does supply additional information, though it doesn't offer many details regarding the period of their reign.
Here are some of the dates that C.S. Lewis provided, and edited by Walter Hooper [LINK][1] :
There may be additional texts and unpublished stories from C.S. Lewis, but I am not aware of any.
