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Frankish king Charlemagne conquered Saxony and integrated it into the Carolingian Empire. In the later 9th century, power began to shift from the (Eastern) Frankish king to the local Saxon rulers, resulting in the emergence of the Younger stem duchy. Independent Saxony. Hadugato (fl. c. 531) Berthoald (fl. c. 622) Theoderic (fl. c. 743–744)
Magnus I took control of Norway, but Harthacnut succeeded as King of Denmark and became King of England in 1040 after the death of his half-brother Harold Harefoot, king of England. Harthacnut himself died suddenly in 1042 and was succeeded by Magnus in Denmark and Edward the Confessor in England.
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Magnus's precise date of birth is unknown, but can be estimated from the fact that his elder brother is thought to have been born in the mid- or late 1040s. [1] [2] His family was one of the most powerful in Anglo-Saxon England: his paternal grandfather was Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and his father was Harold Godwinson, who at about this time ...
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- Æthelstan (927-39) Æthelstan ruled first as King of the Anglo-Saxons, before becoming the first King of England after conquering York and therefore unifying the kingdom for the first time.
- Edmund I (939-46) Although Æthelstan had unified the kingdoms of England to become the first king of all England, on his death England became partially fragmented again, with Viking rule in York and north-east Mercia resuming: something of an initial set back.
- Eadred (946-55) Relatively little is known about Eadred’s reign: his crowning achievement was to bring the kingdom of Northumbria firmly under the control of the English crown, expelling the Norwegian ruler Eric the Bloodaxe from the region in the process.
- Eadwig (955-9) Eadwig became king aged just 15: despite, or perhaps because of, his youth, he feuded with his nobles and clergy, including the powerful archbishops Dunstan and Oda.
Magnus’s father, King Harold left London at the head of the Saxon army. He ordered that his men should muster at Caldbec Hill just north of Hastings. 1066 (14th October)
Charlemagne, portrait by Albrecht Dürer. Charlemagne (742 or 747 – January 28, 814) (also Charles the Great; [1] from Latin, Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus ), son of King Pippin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, was the king of the Franks from 768 C.E. to 814 C.E. and king of the Lombards from 774 C.E. to 814 C.E.
Aug 23, 2022 · Vikings season 3 introduced Magnus (Dean Ridge), the son of Kwenthrith (Amy Bailey), queen of Mercia, who was later revealed to be Ragnar’s illegitimate child – or so Kwenthrith claimed, as this was never confirmed. So, was Magnus really one of Ragnar Lothbrok’s sons?
