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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 ...
This chronology presents the timeline of the Northern Crusades beginning with the 10th century establishment of Christian churches in northern Europe. These were primarily Christianization campaigns undertaken by the Christian kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden together with the Teutonic Knights, primarily against the pagan Baltic, Finnic and West Slavic peoples around the southern and ...
Conversion was slow, however, and most Scandinavian lands were only completely Christianised at the time of rulers such as Saint Canute IV of Denmark and Olaf I of Norway in the years following 1000. The Roman emperor encouraged missionary expeditions to nearby nations including the Muslim caliphate, the Turkic Khazars , and Slavic Moravia .
Canute IV of Denmark (Knute) 1043 1086 Sisebutus 1086 Arnold of Soissons (Arnoul) 1040 1087 Bishop of Soissons: Gebizo (Gerizo) 1087 Blessed Pope Victor III: 1026 1087 Pope Benno: 1010 1088 Bishop of Osnabrück: Blessed Peter Igneus ("The Fiery") 1089 Bishop of Albano: Isaias of Rostov 1090 Adalbero of Würzburg: 1010 1090
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]
Christian IV's expeditions to Greenland. First expedition (1605) Second expedition (1606) Third expedition (1607) 1605-1607 Mostly unsuccessful expeditions to Greenland: Jens Munk expedition to the Barents Sea [8] 1609 Failure to find the Northeast Passage: Kalmar War. Siege of Kalmar (1611) Storming of Kristianopel (1611) Battle of Vittsjö (1612)