Died 1O35
King Of Denmark

Respect. Canute or Cnut I (Canute the Great) was the king of England from 1016—1035 and king of Denmark from 1018—1035. (At the time the kingdom of Denmark comprised present-day Norway and parts of Sweden, Germany, and England, as well as Denmark.) A powerful political figure of the eleventh century, Canute I was respected by both the Holy Roman emperor and the pope.

England. In 1013 Canute I accompanied his father, Danish king Sweyn I Forkbeard, on his invasion of England. When he assumed the English crown, Canute I began to rule over a Christian maritime kingdom. Canute I did not create the Viking interest in extended territory, but his ruthlessness encouraged his people, and through a series of battles at Penselwood (Somerset), Sherston (Wiltshire), Brentford (Middlesex), Otford (Kent), and Assandun (Ashington), they conquered the British Isles.

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