king canute the great Cnut Norse: Knūtr inn rīki;. 985 995 – 12 November 1035 Denmark, England, Norway Sweden. Norman conquest
king canute the great Cnut Norse: Knūtr inn rīki;. 985 995 – 12 November 1035 Denmark, England, Norway Sweden. Norman conquest of England 1066, Polish father Sweyn Forkbeard, patronym Sweynsson Mieszko I, Świętosława: Sigrid Storråda centuries of Viking activity British Isles. Trondheim 1028. Sigtuna The 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,[11] in the 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. Cnut's 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 notable concessions from the Pope, such as one on the price of the pallium of his bishops. Cnut also gained concessions on the tolls his people had to pay on the way to Rome from other magnates of medieval Christendom, at the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor. After his 1026 victory against Norway and Sweden, and on his way to Rome for this coronation, Cnut styled himself in a letter written for the benefit of his subjects king of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes.[
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