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Jun 8, 2020 · Sweyn Forkbeard, England’s shortest reigning king, is killed by King Edmund the Saint. Illustration from The Life of King Edward the Confessor in a manuscript from around 1250. (Public domain) As a result of Sweyn’s sudden death, the empire that he created disintegrated almost immediately.
Dec 25, 2013 · BBC News. 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...
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.
Dec 25, 2023 · 25 December 2023. By David McKenna,BBC News. British Library. Legend has it Sweyn Forkbeard was killed by the ghost of St Edmund. Forty days after he was crowned king of England, Sweyn...
views 3,821,847 updated. 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.
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.
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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