Cnut the Great

Cnut
Cnut
	A 14t century portrait o Cnut the Great
Keeng o Ingland
Ring	1016–1035
Coronation	6 Januar 1017 (London)
Predecessor	Edmund
Successor	Harold
Keeng o Denmark
Ring	1018–1035
Predecessor	Harald II o Denmark
Successor	Harthacnut
Keeng o Norawa
Reing	1028–1035
Predecessor	Olaf Haraldsson
Successor	Magnus Olafsson
Born	c. 985 – c. 995; Denmark
Dee'd	12 November 1035 (aged 40–50); Shaftesbury, Dorset, Ingland
Buirial	Auld Meenster, Winchester. Bones nou in Winchester Cathedral
Spouse	Ælfgifu of Northampton; Emma o Normandy
Issue	wi Ælfgifu; Svein Knutsson; Harold Harefit; wi Emma; Harthacnut; Gunhilda o Denmark
Hoose	House of Denmark
Faither	Sweyn Forkbeard
Mither	unkent (Świętosława / Sigrid/ Gunhild);
Releegion	Christian

Cnut the Great^[2] (Auld Norse: Knútr inn ríki;^[3] c. 985 or 995 – 12 November 1035), mair commonly kent as Canute, wis a king o Denmark, Ingland, Norawa an pairts o Swaden, thegither iften referred tae as the Anglo-Scandinavian or North Sea Empire.

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↑ Cnut's mither is the subject o heestorical debate. Some soorces identify as her Gunnhilda, ithers say she is apocryphal or that there is insufficient evidence to name her. Accordin tae Medieval chroniclers Thietmar of Merseburg an Adam o Bremen, Cnut wis the son o a Pols princess who wis the dauchter o Mieszko I an sister o Boleslaw I, her name mey hae been Świętosława (see: Sigrid Storråda): this haes been airtit tae Cnut's uise o Pols truips in Ingland an Cnut's sister's Anglicised Slavic name, Santslaue. Encomiast, Encomium Emmae, ii. 2, pg. 18; Thietmar, Chronicon, vii. 39, pgs. 446–447; Trow, Cnut, p. 40. The Oxford DNB article on Cnut states that her name is unknown. M. K. Lawson, Cnut, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2005
↑ Bolton, The Empire of Cnut the Great: Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century (Leiden, 2009)
↑ Modern languages: Dens: Knud den Store or Knud II, Norse: Knut den mektige, Swadish: Knut den Store.

[mother-1] Cnut's mither is the subject o heestorical debate. Some soorces identify as her Gunnhilda, ithers say she is apocryphal or that there is insufficient evidence to name her. Accordin tae Medieval chroniclers Thietmar of Merseburg an Adam o Bremen, Cnut wis the son o a Pols princess who wis the dauchter o Mieszko I an sister o Boleslaw I, her name mey hae been Świętosława (see: Sigrid Storråda): this haes been airtit tae Cnut's uise o Pols truips in Ingland an Cnut's sister's Anglicised Slavic name, Santslaue. Encomiast, Encomium Emmae, ii. 2, pg. 18; Thietmar, Chronicon, vii. 39, pgs. 446–447; Trow, Cnut, p. 40. The Oxford DNB article on Cnut states that her name is unknown. M. K. Lawson, Cnut, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2005

[unnecessarycitation-2] Bolton, The Empire of Cnut the Great: Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century (Leiden, 2009)

[3] Modern languages: Dens: Knud den Store or Knud II, Norse: Knut den mektige, Swadish: Knut den Store.

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