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Apr 10, 2024 · Sweyn Forkbeard. Danish: Svend Tveskaeg. Norwegian: Svein Tjugeskjegg, or Tviskjegg. Died: February 3, 1014, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England. Title / Office: king (987-1014), Denmark. king (1013-1014), England. Notable Family Members: father Harald I. son Canute I.
Oct 27, 2016 · Sweyn Forkbeard or Tiugeskaeg, known as such due to his long cleft beard was the son of Harald Bluetooth and was born around 960 AD; he would be the first Danish King of England. Sweyn formed imposing Danish North Sea empire. His father was King of Denmark from 940 to 985 AD, and while it is unknown who his mother was, he may have been his ...
Dec 25, 2013 · On Christmas Day 1013, Danish ruler Sweyn Forkbeard was declared King of all England and the town of Gainsborough its capital. But why is so little known of the man who would be England's...
Sweyn Forkbeard 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 father of King Harald II of Denmark, King Cnut the Great, and Queen Estrid Svendsdatter.
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.
Dec 25, 2023 · 25 December 2023. British Library. Legend has it Sweyn Forkbeard was killed by the ghost of St Edmund. By David McKenna. BBC News. Forty days after he was crowned king of England, Sweyn...
Jun 28, 2017 · The son of a Danish king, Sweyn 'Forkbeard' began conquering territory in England in 1003, effectively devastating much of southern and midland England. The English nobility became so disillusioned with their existing king, Ethelred 'The Unready', that they acknowledged Sweyn as king in 1013.
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