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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]
The battle was victory for the Danes, led by Canute the Great, who triumphed over the English army led by King Edmund Ironside. In the midst of battle, Eadric Streona, whose return to the English side had perhaps only been a ruse, withdrew his forces from the fray, bringing about a decisive English defeat. [11]
Political power or office often gives those who possess it the illusion that they control events. That, after all, is the reason why the story of King Canute retains, and will always retain, its relevance to the current political situation. [6] Warren Burger, the Chief Justice of the United States, mentions Canute in the 1980 decision Diamond v.
The government crushed the rebellion in a bloody battle and deported or imprisoned 10,000 insurgents. A third insurrection occurred in 1848. Although it was as violent and was motivated by almost identical worker exploitation, 1848 was a year of revolution all over Europe and it did not acquire the same renown as that of 1831.
Canute, however, was beginning to realise that the imposition of the tithe on Danish peasants and nobles to fund the expansion of monasteries and churches and a new head tax (Danish: nefgjald) had brought his people to the verge of rebellion. Canute took weeks to arrive where the fleet had assembled at Struer, but he found only the Norwegians ...
Canute the Great. Sweden Norway. Anund Jacob Olaf II of Norway. Victory. The Swedish and Norwegian attack to conquer Denmark while Canute is busy in England fails and Canute retains power; Norway becomes a part of the North Sea empire and parts or the whole of Sweden are conquered by troops from England and Denmark including the capital, Gamla ...
Both Canute and Sweyn sought the support of Conrad III of Germany. In 1152, Frederick I was crowned King of Germany , and he brokered a deal in Merseburg later that year. [ 2 ] The deal made Sweyn "premier king", with Canute eligible to receive a substantial portion of Denmark, and Valdemar keeping the Duchy of Schleswig. [ 3 ]
Covering the reigns of Æthelred the Unready, Edmund Ironside, Sweyn Forkbeard, and Canute. The story is told in diary form by a fictional narrator. The main events take place in Carisbrooke, Dorchester on Thames, Dorchester Abbey, and Abingdon Abbey. [1] [2] The Ward of King Canute (1903) by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz. Covers events of the years ...