10 events with tag "Cnut"
1016
ID: 2568
Cnut becomes King of England - defeats Edmund Ironside, begins Danish dynasty, marries Aethelred's widow Emma of Normandy (1017)
ID: 2568
1016
ID: 3720
Cnut becomes King of England - Danish prince conquers England, later rules Denmark and Norway as North Sea Empire
ID: 3720
1017
ID: 5882
Emma-Cnut marriage agreement - any son by Emma to inherit throne over Cnut's existing sons, sidelining Aethelred's sons
ID: 5882
1017
ID: 5881
July 1017
Emma marries Cnut the conqueror - extraordinary political marriage, former enemy becomes husband, secures her position
ID: 5881
1018
ID: 2638
Cnut's law code issued - synthesis of Anglo-Saxon and Danish law, effective administration
ID: 2638
1018
ID: 5883
Emma bears Harthacnut to Cnut - creates rival line to her sons by Aethelred, complex succession situation
ID: 5883
1020
ID: 5884
Emma at height of power - queen of England, Denmark, and Norway through Cnut, wealthiest woman in Europe
ID: 5884
1027
ID: 2639
Cnut's pilgrimage to Rome - attends Conrad II's imperial coronation, negotiates for English traders
ID: 2639
1028
ID: 2640
Cnut and the tide (legend) - demonstrates limits of royal power by commanding tide to stop, throne gets wet
ID: 2640
1035
ID: 2569
November 12, 1035
Death of Cnut the Great - ruled England, Denmark, Norway, and parts of Sweden, empire divides among sons
ID: 2569