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Sweyn Forkbeard (Old Norse: Sveinn Haraldsson tjúguskegg [ˈswɛinː ˈhɑrˌɑldsˌson ˈtjuːɣoˌskeɡː]; Danish: Svend Tveskæg; 17 April 963 – 3 February 1014) was King of Denmark from 986 until his death, King of England for five weeks from December 1013 until his death, and King of Norway from 999/1000 until 1013/14. He was the ...
- 986–1014
- Tove or Gunhild
- Knut Danaást or Harald Bluetooth
- Harald II
The Sigtrygg Runestones of the "House of Olaf" was raised after king Sigtrygg by his mother. 934 AD. King Cnut I (Harthacnut). 17th century engraving.. The exact date of origin of the Kingdom of Denmark is not established, but names of Danish kings begins to emerge in foreign sources from the 8th century and onwards.
NameBirthMarriagesDeathSweyn II Estridsson (Svend Estridsen) ...c. 1019 England son of jarl Ulf ...(1) Gyda of Sweden c. 1048 (2) Gunnhildr ...28 April 1076 Søderup aged 57–58Harald III the Soft (Harald Hén) ...c. 1040 illegitimate son of Sweyn II17 April 1080 aged 40Cnut IV the Holy (Knud den Hellige) ...c. 1042 illegitimate son of Sweyn IIAdela of Flanders c. 1080 three children10 July 1086 St. Alban's Priory aged ...Olaf I Hunger (Oluf Hunger) 1086–1095c. 1050 illegitimate son of Sweyn IIIngegerd of Norway c. 1070 one daughter18 August 1095 aged 44–45People also ask
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Apr 10, 2024 · Sweyn I was the king of Denmark (c. 987–1014), a leading Viking warrior and the father of Canute I the Great, king of Denmark and England. Sweyn formed an imposing Danish North Sea empire, establishing control in Norway in 1000 and conquering England in 1013, shortly before his death.
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Jul 7, 2021 · How Denmark conquered England in 1013. Danish warrior Sweyn Forkbeard is England’s ‘forgotten king’ ... He was the son of Harald Bluetooth, “the first Christian king of Denmark”, ...
Jun 8, 2020 · By the end of 1013, Sweyn was at the height of his power and was the ruler of Denmark, Norway, and England. Having said that, by February of the following year he was dead. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles’ entry for the year 1014 states, “This year King Sweyne ended his days at Candlemas , the third day before the nones of February,” (which ...
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Sweyn Forkbeard (d.1014), king of Denmark ( c. 985–1014), king of England (1013–14). For some 20 years before 1013 Sweyn Forkbeard was involved in sporadic heavy raiding against England, in 994 in the company of Olaf Tryggvason of Norway, later an arch-enemy. Attacks intensified after 1004, some said in revenge for the murder of his sister ...
The North Sea Empire, also known as the Anglo-Scandinavian Empire, was the personal union of the kingdoms of England, Denmark [a] and Norway for most of the period between 1013 and 1042 towards the end of the Viking Age. [1] This ephemeral Norse -ruled empire was a thalassocracy, its components only connected by and dependent upon the sea.
