Sweyn II (c. 1019 – 28 April 1076), also known as Sweyn Estridsson (Old Norse: Sveinn Ástríðarson, Danish: Svend Estridsen) and Sweyn Ulfsson, was King...
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Sweyn III Grathe (Danish: Svend III Grathe; c. 1125 – 23 October 1157) was the king of Denmark between 1146 and 1157, in shifting alliances with Canute...
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Sweyn Forkbeard (Old Norse: Sveinn Haraldsson tjúguskegg [ˈswɛinː ˈhɑrˌɑldsˌson ˈtjuːɣoˌskeɡː]; Danish: Svend Tveskæg; 17 April 963 – 3 February 1014)...
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Great. Sweyn II of Denmark (1019–1074/76), King of Denmark Sweyn the Crusader (1050–1097), son of Sweyn II Svend Tronkræver (d. 1104), son of Sweyn II, potential...
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1018) was King of Denmark (being Harald II) from 1014 until his death in c. 1018. He was the youngest son of Sweyn Forkbeard and Gunhild of Wenden, and was...
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was a Danish crusader. Sweyn was born in Denmark, a son of King Sweyn II of Denmark, and husband of Florine of Burgundy. He is famous for his participation...
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as Eric the Good (Danish: Erik Ejegod), was King of Denmark following his brother Olaf I Hunger in 1095. He was a son of Sweyn II. His mother's identity...
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on information from Gorm's descendant, Sweyn II of Denmark. Adam states that a king Helge was deposed and Denmark was conquered by Olof the Brash who came...
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the King of Denmark from 1104 to 1134. Niels succeeded his brother Eric Evergood and is presumed to have been the youngest son of King Sweyn II Estridson...
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as Sweyn I Sweyn or Svein Knutsson (c. 1016–1035), King of Norway as Sweyn II Sweyn II of Denmark (1019–1076), King of Denmark Blot-Sweyn or Sweyn the...
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the Holy. He was a son of king Sweyn II Estridsson, and the third of Sweyn's sons to rule. He married Ingegard, the daughter of Harald Hardråde, but did...
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c. 1042, one of the many sons of Sweyn II Estridsson by an unknown mistress. He is first noted as a member of Sweyn's 1069 raid on England, and the Anglo-Saxon...
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Battle of Niså (Slaget ved Niså) was a naval battle fought on 9 August 1062 between the forces of Norwegian king Harald Hardrada and king Sweyn II of Denmark...
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Harald III of Norway Sweyn II of Denmark List of English monarchs Dobat, Andres Siegfried (2015). "Viking stranger-kings: the foreign as a source of power...
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King Sweyn II of Denmark. There is little information about Gyda;[citation needed] our main source being the German ecclesiastic chronicler Adam of Bremen...
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III of Denmark abdicated and a civil war erupted. Valdemar was a possible contender to the throne. The other pretenders to the throne were: Sweyn III...
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Norman Conquest (redirect from Norman Conquest of England)
Brian, a son of Eudes, Count of Penthièvre. In August or September 1069 a large fleet sent by Sweyn II of Denmark arrived off the coast of England, sparking...
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wife of King Sigurd I of Norway. With his concubine Thunna, Eric had the illegitimate son Sweyn, who would later become king as Sweyn III of Denmark. Monarkiet...
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Magnus the Good (redirect from Magnus I (of Norway and Denmark))
split between Harald Hardrada in Norway and Sweyn Estridsson in Denmark. Magnus was an illegitimate son of King Olaf Haraldsson (later Saint Olaf) by his...
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Harold Godwinson (redirect from Harold II of England)
sister of King Cnut the Great of England and Denmark. Ulf and Estrid's son would become King Sweyn II of Denmark in 1047. Godwin was the son of Wulfnoth...
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Harthacnut (redirect from Harthacnut II of Denmark)
Harthacnut (Danish: Hardeknud; "Tough-knot"; c. 1018 – 8 June 1042), traditionally Hardicanute, sometimes referred to as Canute III, was King of Denmark from...
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Ulf Jarl (category 11th-century Danish people)
Earl Ulf, was a Danish jarl of Skåne and regent of Denmark. Ulf was the son of Thorgil Sprakling and the father of King Sweyn II of Denmark and thus the...
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Gyrd and Gnupa (redirect from Gnupa of Denmark)
and Gnupa were kings of Denmark in the 10th century according to Sweyn II of Denmark and Adam of Bremen. They were the sons of the Swedish chieftain...
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Harald Bluetooth (redirect from Harold I of Denmark)
few years in the 970s. Some sources say his son Sweyn Forkbeard forcibly deposed him from his Danish throne before his death. Harald's name is written...
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Events from the 11th century in Denmark. Sweyn Forkbeard, 986–1014 Harald II of Denmark, 1014–c. 1018 Cnut the Great, 1018–1035 Harthacnut, 1035–1042...
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Haroldson, and certainly he was a relation of the Danish royal family through his greatuncle Ulf, father of King Sweyn II. This interpretation was taken seriously...
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Sigrid Svendsdatter (category Illegitimate children of Sweyn II)
a Danish princess, the illegitimate daughter of King Sweyn II of Denmark. She married Obotrite Prince Gottschalk (died 1066), who was in service of Canute...
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the body of a woman entombed near Sweyn II of Denmark in Roskilde Cathedral is that of his mother Estrid, mtDNA from pulp of teeth from each of the two...
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account of a poor Icelander from the Westfjords, the harshest region of the country, who decides to take a polar bear as a present to Sweyn II of Denmark (reigned...
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Svend Tronkræver (redirect from Sweyn Tronkræver)
(died 1104) was a Danish prince, one of the illegitimate sons of king Sweyn II of Denmark. He shared the same name with his brother Sweyn the Crusader and...
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