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      • His attempt to govern Norway through Aelgifu (his concubine) and his other son by her, Sweyn, ended in rebellion and the restoration of the former Norwegian dynasty under Magnus I.
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    On the death of Sweyn Forkbeard after a few months as king, on Candlemas (Sunday 3 February 1014), Harald succeeded him as King of Denmark, while the Vikings and the people of the Danelaw immediately elected Cnut as king in England.

  3. Mar 29, 2024 · After over 250 years of Viking raids, conquests, and battles, Cnut the Great finally seized the English throne after his victory over the Anglo-Saxon King Edmund Ironside. This victory marked a new era of Viking dominance on the British Isles and would lay the foundations for the Norman Conquest.

  4. Apr 16, 2024 · Cnut the Great’s 1026 victory against Norway and Sweden, and subsequent Rome visit for the Holy Roman Emperor’s coronation, bolstered his claim as “King of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes.”

  5. Mar 8, 2022 · Cnut won the English throne in 1016 after prolonged fighting against the eldest son of King Æthelred of England, Edmund Ironside. Though Cnut and Edmund Ironside agreed to divide England between them, Edmund’s death in 1016 allowed Cnut to take over the whole of England as King.

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  6. Apr 21, 2020 · King Cnut (also known as King Canute) is one of the Anglo-Saxon period's most prominent figures, a fierce Danish warrior king who conquered vast swathes of northern Europe and ruled over England between 1016 and 1035. Here, WB Bartlett charts Cnut's remarkable life.

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  7. On the death of Sweyn Forkbeard after a few months as king, on Candlemas (Sunday 3 February 1014), Harald succeeded him as King of Denmark, while the Vikings and the people of the Danelaw immediately elected Cnut as king in England.

  8. May 4, 2015 · On April 23, 1016, King Aethelred died and the men of the king’s council, along with the citizens of London elected Edmund king. But there were other councillors, bishops, abbots and ealdormen that elected Cnut as king at Southampton.

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