edmund ironside and canute meeting on isle of alney Great Old Norse: Knūtr inn rīki. 985 or 995 – 12 November 1035 king of Den
edmund ironside and canute meeting on isle of alney Great Old Norse: Knūtr inn rīki. 985 or 995 – 12 November 1035 king of Denmark, England, Norway Sweden. Norman conquest of England Polish Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark which gave Cnut the patronym Sweynsson Cnut's mother was the daughter of Mieszko I, the first ruler of Poland; her name may have been Świętosława (see: Sigrid Storråda), but the Oxford DNB article on Cnut states that her name is unknown prince of Denmark, Cnut won the throne of England in 1016 in the wake of centuries of Viking activity throughout the British Isles. His accession to the Danish throne in 1018 brought the crowns of England and Denmark together. Cnut held this power-base together by uniting Danes and Englishmen under cultural bonds of wealth and custom, rather than sheer brutality. After a decade of conflict with opponents in Scandinavia, Cnut claimed the crown of Norway in Trondheim in 1028. The Swedish city Sigtuna was held by Cnut. He had coins struck which called him king there, but there is no narrative record of his kingship of England of course lent the Danes an important link to the maritime zone between Great Britain and Ireland, where Cnut like his father before him had a strong interest. In light of the struggles of the Danes for preeminence within Scandinavia, Cnut's rule was definitely felt by the sea-kingdoms of the Viking settlers among the Celtic nations; known as the Gall Gaidel. Chief among these were the Kingdom of the Isles (probably under direct overlordship through one of his lieutenants in the Sea of the Hebrides, and the Kingdom of Dublin, Irish Sea. The chief goal here was to control the western seaways to and from Scandinavia, and to check the might of the Earls of Orkney. possession of England's archdioceses and the continental diocese of Denmark – with a claim laid upon it by the Holy Roman Empire's Hamburg-Bremen archdiocese – was a source of great leverage within the Church, gaining
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