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Canuto II, o Grande (em nórdico antigo: Knútr inn ríki; Dinamarca, c. 990 – Shaftesbury, 12 de novembro de 1035) foi rei da Dinamarca, Inglaterra e Noruega, juntos muitas vezes referidos como o Império do Mar do Norte. No entanto, após a morte de seus herdeiros dentro de uma década após a sua própria morte, e havendo o evento da ...
May 4, 2015 · There is very little historic information on King Cnut even though he was the most powerful king in northern Europe in the early eleventh century. He was King of Denmark and England, for a time King of Norway and possibly lord of part of Sweden. England had suffered from the weak and ineffectual reign of King Aethelred the Unready for nearly ...
Mar 29, 2017 · Cnut’s invasion, like that of his father’s before him, was quite different from previous raiding and sought not ready cash and valuables but political control. To the English sources of his mature reign he was a perfect English monarch, ruling by the model of his predecessors, but again a few small facts suggest that this is not the whole ...
The status of Cnut's two 'marriages' and their social context in England and Scandinavia has been discussed recently by Timothy Bolton. Emma's sons, Edward and Ælfred by Æthelred and Harthacnut by Cnut, were also claimants to the throne of her husband. Exactly how the second marriage affected Ælfgifu's status as Cnut's first consort is ...
Dec 24, 2023 · Cnut the Great and the Tide The anecdote of Cnut the Great commanding the tide to halt is one of the most enduring legends about his reign, encapsulating the king’s wisdom and humility. This story, which first appears in historical texts several generations after Cnut’s death, is notably chronicled in Henry of Huntingdon’s 12th-century ...
King Cnut (Canute) (1016 - 1035) King of England from 1016, Denmark from 1018, and Norway from 1028. Having invaded England in 1013 with his father, Sweyn, king of Denmark, he was acclaimed king on Sweyn's death in 1014 by his Viking army. Canute defeated Edmund (II) Ironside at Assandun, Essex, in 1016, and became king of all England on Edmund ...
Nov 13, 2017 · By ThePostgradChronicles onNovember 13, 2017•( 4 Comments ) In 1016, the young Danish prince who was to become Cnut the Great, King of England, Denmark, and Norway, laid siege to the city of London as part of the campaign that saw him crowned King of England by 1017. London was one of very few English cities of European significance – a ...
