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Canute IV (c. 1042 – 10 July 1086), later known as Canute the Holy (Danish: Knud IV den Hellige) or Saint Canute (Sankt Knud), was King of Denmark from 1080 until 1086. Canute was an ambitious king who sought to strengthen the Danish monarchy , devotedly supported the Roman Catholic Church , and had designs on the English throne .
Cnut (/ k ə ˈ nj uː t /; [3] Old Norse: Knútr Old Norse pronunciation:; [a] c. 990 – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, [4] [5] [6] was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. [1]
Ælnoth may have been prior in the Benedictine community founded in Odense as a daughter house of the Abbey at Evesham. [2] According to the Danish historian Hans Olrik, who wrote the biography of Ælnoth in the first edition of the Danish biographical reference work Dansk biografisk lexikon, Ælnoth came to Denmark and Odense about 1100; he there had compatriots called in earlier by King Eric ...
The North Sea Empire, also known as the Anglo-Scandinavian Empire, was the personal union of the kingdoms of England, Denmark [a] and Norway for most of the period between 1013 and 1042 towards the end of the Viking Age. [1]
It has also been called the House of Canute, the House of Denmark, the House of Gorm, or the Jelling dynasty. Under Harald Bluetooth's rule, he is said on a Jelling rune stone to have unified the territory that comprises modern-day Denmark under his rule, as well as Norway. [ 1 ]
Canute VI of Denmark, Canute VI Valdemarsen, (1163–1202), King of Denmark (1182–1202) Six princes of Denmark. Canute Danaást (d. 962), son of king Gorm the Old; Canute Lavard (1090–1131), son of king Eric I of Denmark; Canute Haraldsen (d. 1135), son of Harald Kesja; Canute Eriksen (d. bef. 1250), son of king Eric IV of Denmark; Canute ...
From 1047, Denmark was ruled by the House of Estridsen. Sweyn II of Denmark and his five reigning sons had ruled Denmark for 87 years. [b] The last of these rules, Niels of Denmark, gave his nephew, Canute Lavard, the Duchy of Schleswig as his vassalage in 1115. [1] Canute was to protect the southern border from foreign, and mostly Slavic ...
Canute IV of Denmark; Canute V of Denmark; Canute VI of Denmark; Canute Lavard; Canute, Duke of Estonia; Charles the Good; Christina of Denmark, Queen of Norway; Christina of Denmark, Queen of Sweden; Christopher I of Denmark; Christopher II of Denmark; Christopher, Duke of Lolland