autumn of 1016, the Danish prince Cnut the Great (Canute), supported by Eiríkr Hákonarson, and Thorkell the Tall successfully invaded England. Cnut's father...
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support Cnut in England, too. Cnut's brother Harald may have been at Cnut's coronation, in 1016, returning to Denmark as its king, with part of the fleet...
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Cnut's Invasion of Norway or Cnut's Conquest of Norway (Danish: Knuds invasion af Norge), was an invasion and subjugation of the Kingdom of Norway by...
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led by King Edmund Ironside. The battle was the conclusion to Cnut's invasion of England. On 23 April 1016, King Æthelred the Unready died from an illness...
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forces of King Edmund Ironside and Danish king Cnut as a part of Cnut's invasion of England. The West Saxons, fighting for Edmund, were victorious against...
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Harthacnut (redirect from Hartha-Canute of England)
Swedish invasions, instead waiting for Cnut's assistance. In 1027, Cnut arrived with a fleet. He forgave Harthacnut his insubordination in view of his youth...
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Thorkell the Tall (category Earls and ealdormen of East Anglia)
Forkbeard's 1013 invasion and Cnut's re-invasion a few years later. After the death of Edmund Ironside on 30 November 1016, Cnut became king of England and he divided...
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Harthacnut. When Cnut's brother, Harald II, King of Denmark, died in 1018, Cnut went to Denmark to secure that realm. Two years later, Cnut brought Norway...
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Norman Conquest (redirect from Norman Invasion of England)
11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish, and Breton troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy...
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North Sea Empire (redirect from Empire of the North Sea)
harshly. Cnut's brother Harald became the King of Denmark, but with help from Eric Haakonsson of Norway, Cnut raised a new invasion fleet of his own and...
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Edmund Ironside (redirect from Edmund II of England)
"because of his valour" in resisting the Danish invasion led by Cnut. In summer of 1013 Sweyn Forkbeard launched a full-scale invasion of England, driving...
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2017-04-15. "Cnut's invasion of England: setting the scene for the Norman conquest". History Extra. Retrieved 2017-04-15. "The Norman Conquest of England". www...
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part of a campaign by Cnut to conquer England. The battle was a victory for the English, who nevertheless lost a large number of men. Cnut's invasion continued...
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of Knýtlinga (English: "House of Cnut's Descendants") was a ruling royal house in Middle Age Scandinavia and England. Its most famous king was Cnut the...
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Sweyn Forkbeard (redirect from Sweyn I of Denmark)
wives, the first being Cnut's mother, and the second being the former Queen of Sweden. Cnut's brother Harald was the younger of the two brothers, according...
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Harold Harefoot (redirect from Harold I (of England))
coronation in England because his Danish kingdom was under threat of invasion by King Magnus I of Norway and King Anund Jacob of Sweden. England's magnates...
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son Cnut. As Cnut's wife, she was Queen of England from their marriage in 1017, Queen of Denmark from 1018, and Queen of Norway from 1028 until Cnut died...
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England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and more than 100...
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was the case with the marriage of Ælfgifu to Cnut. The status of Cnut's two 'marriages' and their social context in England and Scandinavia has been discussed...
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King Edmund signed a treaty with Cnut (Canute) under which all of England except for Wessex would be controlled by Cnut. Upon Edmund's death just over a...
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There were two Danish attacks on Norman England. The first was an invasion in 1069–1070 conducted in alliance with various English rebels which succeeded...
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was married to Cnut's sister, Estrid. Cnut died in 1035 and England was disputed between Harold Harefoot, Cnut's son with Ælfgifu of Northampton, and...
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Invasions of the British Isles have occurred several times throughout their history. The British Isles have been subject to several waves of invasion...
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to Sardinia 1015–1016 Cnut's invasion of England 1018 Battle of Vlaardingen 1018 Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria 1024 Battle of Listven 1024 Rus'–Byzantine...
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Harold Godwinson (redirect from Harold II of England)
supporting King Cnut by 1018, when Cnut named him Earl of Wessex. Godwin remained an earl throughout the remainder of Cnut's reign, one of only two earls...
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William the Conqueror (redirect from William I (of England))
and Cnut became king of England. Æthelred and Emma's two sons, Edward and Alfred, went into exile in Normandy while their mother, Emma, became Cnut's second...
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Svein Knutsson (redirect from Svein (son of Cnut the Great))
Håkon Eiriksson, Cnut's vassal ruler of Norway, was lost at sea and Olaf Haraldsson, who had been deposed as king of Norway by Cnut, tried to recapture...
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February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his...
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of the North Sea Empire of Cnut the Great, a personal union between England, Denmark and Norway. The Norman Conquest in 1066 led to the transfer of the...
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membership required.) —— (1864) [First published 1789]. The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution in 1688. London: Longman. OCLC 165459692...
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