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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 .
By the early 11th century, certainly during the reign of Canute IV, Denmark can be said to be a Christian country. Later known as St. Canute, Canute IV was murdered inside St. Albans Church in 1086 after nobles and peasants alike rebelled at his enforcing the tithe to pay for the new monasteries and other ecclesiastical foundations which were ...
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 ...
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]
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, Duke of Estonia (1205–1260), bastard son of Valdemar II of Denmark; Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1900–1976), son of king Christian X of Denmark
The death of Canute IV of Denmark in the Church of Saint Albanus (1086), Christian Albrecht von Benzon, 1843. List of canonised Danish saints within the Catholic Church: Saint Canute (Knud IV den Hellige) Nicolas Steno (Niels Steensen) Charles the Good (Karl den Danske) Willehad of Denmark (Villehad af Danmark) Canute Lavard (Knud Lavard) Saint ...
St. Canute's Cathedral (Danish: Odense Domkirke or Sankt Knuds Kirke), also known as Odense Cathedral, is named after the Danish king Canute the Saint (Danish: Knud den Hellige), otherwise Canute IV. It is a fine example of Brick Gothic architecture. The church's most visited section is the crypt where the remains of Canute and his brother ...
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