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After his father's death, he was elected to the Danish throne in 1014, while his brother, the later king Cnut the Great was elected to the throne of England. [6] After his death in 1018(?), he was succeeded by Cnut the Great. Little detail is known about Harald II. [1]
Cnut's brother Harald may have been at Cnut's coronation, in 1016, returning to Denmark as its king, with part of the fleet, at some point thereafter. It is only certain, though, that there was an entry of his name, alongside Cnut's, in confraternity with Christ Church, Canterbury , in 1018. [ 52 ]
One Danish chronicle states that the Danes had previously deposed Harald in favour of Cnut, then brought back Harald because of Cnut's frequent absences, until Cnut finally became king permanently after his brother's death. [14] King Olaf II of Norway and King Anund Jacob of Sweden, seeing the combined Anglo-Danish kingdom as a threat – Cnut ...
The Danish House of Knýtlinga (English: "House of Cnut's Descendants") was a ruling royal house in Middle Age Scandinavia and England. Its most famous king was Cnut the Great, who gave his name to this dynasty. Other notable members were Cnut's father Sweyn Forkbeard, grandfather Harald Bluetooth, and sons Harthacnut, Harold Harefoot, and ...
King of Characene — captured Babylon in the wake of Antiochus VII Sidetes's campaign [163] Artabanus I: Aršakâ: November 127 BC 124 BC King of the Parthian Empire — brother of Mithridates I, conquered Babylonia [164] Mithridates II: Aršakâ: 124 BC 91 BC King of the Parthian Empire — son of Artabanus I [165] Gotarzes I: Aršakâ: 91 BC ...
Cnut wasted no time to prepare for the reconquest, Among the allies of Denmark was Bolesław I the Brave, the duke of Poland, (later crowned king) a relative to the Danish royal house. He lent some Polish troops, [ 4 ] likely to have been a pledge made to Cnut and his brother Harald when, in the winter, they "went amongst the Wends " to fetch ...
The Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars was a long series of battles between the Fairhair dynasty and the Earls of Lade.The conflict started when Harald Greycloak was lured into Denmark by Haakon Sigurdsson, where he was killed in battle at Limfjord in Denmark ca. 970. [1]
Emma of Normandy (referred to as Ælfgifu in royal documents; [3] c. 984 – 6 March 1052) was a Norman-born noblewoman who became the English, Danish, and Norwegian queen through her marriages to the Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred the Unready and the Danish king Cnut the Great.