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Knut II Sveinsson King of England

Male 995 - 1035  (40 years)


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  • Name Knut II Sveinsson King of England  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Born 995  Denmark Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1014 
    Withdrew from England to Denmark after his father's death where he gathered his forces 
    Occupation 1015 
    Returned to England and took control of virtually the whole country (except for the city of London) 
    Occupation 1016 
    King of England 
    Occupation 6 Jan 1017 
    First Dane to be crowned King of England (in London) 
    Occupation 1018 
    King of Denmark 
    Occupation 1028 
    King of Norway 
    Died 12 Nov 1035  Shaftesbury, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried St. Peter's, Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4063  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Sweyn I Tjugguskegg of Denmark,   b. Abt 960, Denmark Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Feb 1014, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 54 years) 
    Mother Gunhilde Piast de Pologne,   b. 967, Poland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1014  (Age 47 years) 
    Married 993 
    Divorced 1000 
    Family ID F2064  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Ælfgifu of Northampton,   b. Abt 996, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Dec 1044  (Age ~ 48 years) 
    Married 1014 
    Divorced 1015 
    Children 
     1. Harald I King of England,   b. Abt 1015, Denmark Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Mar 1040, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 25 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2201  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Emma Regina de Normandie Queen of England,   b. Abt 982, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Mar 1052, Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years) 
    Married 2 Jul 1017 
    Children 
     1. Hardeknut King of England,   b. Abt 1018, Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Jun 1042, Lambeth (London Borough), England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 24 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2057  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S576] Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, Anselme de Sainte-Marie, augustin déchaussé, (Troisième Édition, la Compagnie des Libraires, Paris, 2 août 1726-1733), Volume 2, p. 466.

    2. [S577] Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, Peter Townend and Hugh Massingberd, (One Hundred and Fifth Edition, Burke's Peerage Limited, London, 1970), 1.

    3. [S639] Domesday Descendants. Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum, Katharine S. B. Keats-Rohan, (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 2002), 1101.

    4. [S633] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis. Edited with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 7th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992), 2:1-19.