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	King Cnut: Emperor of the North
		Cnut was in charge of the Danish army at Gainsborough, north of Lincoln, when Svein died suddenly on February 3, 1013.
		Cnut was still young when he became king of England, but he had either been well trained in statesmanship, or more likely, he listened to the advice of his more experienced counsellors.
		In 1026 Cnut was in Denmark again to face a threat from an alliance between King Onund-Jakob of Sweden and King Olaf Haraldsson of Norway.
	members.aol.com /bakken1/angsax/cnutaut.htm (2410 words)

	King Cnut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Cnut was in charge of the Danish army at Gainsborough, north of Lincoln, when Svein died suddenly on February 3, 1013.
		Cnut was still young when he became king of England, but he had either been well trained in statesmanship, or more likely, he listened to the advice of his more experienced counsellors.
		Cnut died at Shaftesbury on November 12, 1035 and was buried at Old Minster in Winchester.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/vikings/cnutaut.html (2410 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Cnut kept direct control of Wessex, where most of the royal estates and therefore royal wealth was located.
		Cnut made a more important commitment the next year, when he was on expedition to Denmark.
		Cnut had made a big splash while he lived, but he spent all of his energies building up a ramshackle empire that had little chance of surviving him.
	the-orb.net /textbooks/muhlberger/canute.html (2090 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		EirÃkr HÃ¡konarson, Cnut's brother-in-law, as Trondejarl, the Earl of Lade, and ruler of Norway, under Swegen, as well as, Forkbeard's sons, as his was a liege and lord alliance, was left in Denmark as the commander of the reserves, probably with men still to gather after the dispersal of the previous campaign's fleet.
		Cnut's invasion force purportedly brought each of the battles to their end with retreats, although it is likely it was simply darkness which meant the blood shed could not continue.
		Cnut's attempt to rule Norway through Aelgifu of Northampton and his second son by her, Sweyn, was to be put to an end, with his death, in rebellion, and the restoration of the former Norwegian dynasty under Olaf's son Magnus the Good.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Canute_the_Great (4067 words)

	Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Cnut was joined by his Norwegian brother-in-law, Earl Erik of Lade, whose long experience in warfare and government made him an ideal advisor for the ambitious, but inexperienced young prince.
		Cnut was still young when he became king of England, but he had either been well trained in statesmanship, or more likely, he listened to the advice of his more experienced counselors.
		The Emperor Conrad's son, Henry, was betrothed to Cnut's daughter Gunnhild and Conrad ceded Schleswig and territory north of the River Eider to Denmark as a token of their friendship.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/vikings/cnutemp.html (2568 words)

	CNUT (Canute) @ Archontology.org: presidents, kings, prime ministers, biography, database
		Cnut was the son of Sweyn Haroldson, king of Denmark, who briefly seized the English crown (1013) after a series of Viking raids, which he successfully led.
		Cnut was again in Denmark in 1025 and his fleet was driven away in a battle at Holy River in southern Sweden in 1026.
		Cnut introduced the laws drafted into a legal code by Archbishop Wulfstan, which were mainly based on previous legislation of King Eadgar.
	www.archontology.org /nations/england/anglosaxon/canut.php (699 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Cnut kept direct control of Wessex, where most of the royal estates and therefore royal wealth was located.
		Cnut made a more important commitment the next year, when he was on expedition to Denmark.
		Cnut had made a big splash while he lived, but he spent all of his energies building up a ramshackle empire that had little chance of surviving him.
	www.the-orb.net /textbooks/muhlberger/canute.html (2090 words)

	History Bookshop.com: Cnut
		Cnut's marriage to Aethelred's widow Emma of Normandy in July 1017 can also be seen as a reconciliatory gesture.
		But Eadric's position was short-lived because in December 1017 Cnut had him killed, knowing his double-dealing had done much to weaken Aethelred and Edmund.
		Cnut had three sons: Harthacnut by his wife Emma, and Sweyn and Harold "Harefoot" by his English mistress Aelfgifu.
	www.historybookshop.com /articles/people/monarchs/cnut.asp (453 words)

	Cnut, The Viking King of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Cnut's achievements in England were the result of luck and opportunity more than planning or talent.
		Cnut was the son of Sven Forkbeard, king of Denmark since 985, who had spent much of his reign extorting danegeld (i.e tribute) from king Æthelred II.
		If Cnut was not already a Christian, he must have become one in the next few years, since, according to the Chronicle, he went to Rome in 1031.
	www.dicksonc.act.edu.au /Showcase/ClioContents/legends/cnut.html (1904 words)

	Eadric Streona - Cunnan
		Cnut landed, and Eadric, with 40 ships, deserted the king, and went over to him.
		As Cnut turned south, towards London, after ravaging Northumbria and killing its earl, Ethelred died and Edmund his son was chosen as king.
		Cnut besieged London, but Edmund broke out, harried Cnut's forces, forcing him to break the siege, and caught him at Otford in Kent, doing bloody slaughter.
	cunnan.sca.org.au /wiki/Eadric_Streona (538 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A hitherto unrecorded type for Cnut, as no reference for this period lists a Cnut quatrefoil penny with a dagger to the right of the portrait, which this well-struck coin clearly displays.
		Clearly, the Danish invasions of England saw much bloodshed, but by the time this coin was struck, Cnut had conquered his opponents, and England remained in a fairly peaceful state of existence during the rest of his reign.
		During 1015 and 1016, Cnut returned to do battle, and finally secured the title of king of all England in November, 1016, after both Aethelred II and his son had died.
	www.symbolicmessengers.com /cnut.htm (488 words)

	Piety and Power; King Cnut and the English Church, 1014 to 1035
		Cnut's position in England in 1016 to 1017 was initially based on military force and a rather vague agreement that King Edmund had designated Cnut his heir before his early death in 1016.
		Cnut may have ended any sexual relationship with Ælfgifu once he married Emma as the church required, but he still could have been determined to provide for her and their sons.
		After Cnut died Ælfgifu was powerful enough to cause significant trouble for Emma through her son Harald, but whether that was because of Cnut's favor, or due to the power of her family is difficult to determine.
	members.aol.com /bakken1/angsax/cnutchr.htm (3839 words)

	King Cnut I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1013 Cnut, younger son of Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark, accompanied his father during his invasion of England, when they forced King Æthelred II (the Unready) into exile in Normandy.
		By 1016 Cnut was fighting in England, where the throne had passed to Edmund II earlier that year.
		Cnut won a decisive victory over Edmund at Ashingdon on 18th Oct 1016 and shortly afterwards became king of all England.
	www.chrisbutterworth.com /hist/cnut1.htm (293 words)

	channel4.com - Time Team - Who was King Cnut?
		According to Dr Ken Lawson, the Cnut scholar who appeared in Time Team's Nassington programme, he was, quite simply, 'one of the greatest European figures of his time'.
		The story of Cnut attempting to turn back the tide is one that is meant to demonstrate his piety, rather than the way it is often told as a vainglorious king being shown wanting in an overblown belief in his powers.
		Cnut's reign came to an end on 12 November 1035 with his death at Shaftesbury.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/T/timeteam/snapshot_cnut.html (750 words)

	Malcolm II@Everything2.com
		In 1018 the reigning king of England, Cnut was away in Denmark, and Malcolm together with the support of Eoghain the Bald the king of Strathclyde, took advantage of his temporary abscence to lead another army south, this time to Carham.
		The battle of Carham later came to be seen, along with the battle of Nechtansmere and that of Bannockburn as one of the defining events in the history of Scotland.
		Of course the effect of the battles at Durham and Carham and Cnut's invasion was to establish a border roughly along the lines of the what became the accepted Scotland-England border (once Cumbria is taken into account) but there was a fair bit of fighting to do yet before the matter became settled.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node=Malcolm%20II (1008 words)

	Andrew Lownie Literary Agency :: Cnut, Emperor of the North, 2005
		Cnut was born into an age at once harsher and more naïve than ours, where miracles happened and complex politics was decided with the sword.
		Cnut’s own family did not survive and his northern empire disappeared into the welter of European realpolitik which followed 1066.
		Brimming with facts but without being weighty, Cnut is a lively guide to a time when myths and legends all too easily muddied the waters of what was and was not the truth surrounding the history of this land of ours.
	www.andrewlownie.co.uk /books/trow.mei/cnut.shtml (454 words)

	St. Olaf Haraldson
		He is the great Norwegian legislator for the Church, and like his ancestor (Olaf Trygvesson), made frequent severe attacks on the old faith and customs, demolishing the temples and building Christian churches in their place.
		This was willingly given, whereupon Olaf was expelled and Cnut elected King of Norway.
		It must be remembered that the resentment against Olaf was due not alone to his Christianity, but also in a high degree to his unflinching struggle against the old constitution of shires and for the unity of Norway.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/o/olaf_haraldson,saint.html (538 words)

	STEFAN JURASINSKI \| Reddatur Parentibus: The Vengeance of the Family in Cnut's Homicide Legislation \| Law and History ...
		First, Liebermann's conviction that the extant Old English versions of II Cnut 56 are corrupt, along with his consequent emphasis on the Latin versions of the chapter, may have led him to dismiss as evidence of corruption some details of the Old English texts, details that might, in fact, have a rational explanation.
		The rendering of II Cnut 56 from the Leges Henrici Primi offers evidence that at some point during his preparation of the Quadripartitus the author was reliant on a manuscript that had already undergone the scribal corruption that changed amyrdred to amyrred in all but one of the extant vernacular manuscripts.
		II Cnut's treatment of public slaying is described adequately in 48.2: the killer was outlawed (beo he utlah) and was to be expelled with hue and cry; should he be slain during his expulsion, his death was to remain uncompensated (agilde).
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lhr/20.1/jurasinski.html (9227 words)

	Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH King Cnut ENGLAND, I ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH STRUDELL ...
		It was Cnut's unheralded withdrawal which had alienated the Danelaw and made Edmund's intrusion there possible; while in spite of the momentary recovery of Ethelred in 1014 and 1015, there was treachery in the English court, which aided Cnut to overrun Wessex and Mercia.
		Cnut was thus doubly attractive to them: as a Danish overlord and as a man who could restore peace and stable government...Swein had been accepted by a large proportion of the thegns as king; and, as Swein's son, Cnut had some show of legitimacy.
		The pilgrimage was thecharacteristic act of a man of conventional piety, and a distinguished patron of the Church; it also underlined Cnut's determination to act in the tradition of the English kings- and to cut a figure in European society.
	www.geneal.net /1014.htm (2628 words)

	Vikings - A Danish King on the English Throne
		Cnut right away had Eadred, who had once more changed sides at the battle of Ashingdon, executed, along with several important Anglo-Saxon nobles.
		Cnut married Æthelred's widow, the daughter of Richard, Duke of Normandy, and both agreed that the common children of Cnut and Emma should have priority in the line for the English throne.
		Cnut retained forty ships for his personal body guard and to serve as the nucleus of a defence force.
	www.apocalyptic-theories.com /society/vikings/daneking.html (720 words)

	Regia Anglorum - Kingmakers - The Story of the House of Godwin
		Another tale has it that a Danish Jarl named Ulf got lost during Cnut's invasion and was guided back to his ships by a handsome, well-spoken youth to whom he took such a fancy that he married him to his sister.
		Cnut left him as sub regulus whenever he was out of the country.
		When Cnut died at the age of forty in 1035, he was briefly succeeded by his sons Harold and Harthacnut in quick succession.
	www.regia.org /godwins.htm (2835 words)

	Winning His Spurs by G. A. Henty: Chapter XVII. An Alpine Storm.
		Cnut was with his feudal chief--for such Cuthbert had now, by his accession to the rank of Earl of Evesham, become--and three or four English archers.
		Cnut and the archers had grumbled much at the change in the colour of the cross upon their jerkins; and, as Cnut said, would have been willing to run greater perils under their true colours than to affect to belong to any other nationality.
		Cuthbert related to Cnut and the archers, how men had there been set to fight, while the great stone benches round were thronged with men and women looking on at their death struggles, and said that not unfrequently British captives were brought hither and made to contend in the arena.
	www.online-literature.com /ga-henty/winning-his-spurs/17 (3692 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Reign of King Cnut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Cnut, a son of the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard (Sveinn tjúguskegg), led an invasion of England and reigned there from 1016 to his death in 1035.
		The stability of Cnut’s early years in England relied on the combined authority of Englishmen who were too powerful to be removed and the military might of Cnut’s own overly-powerful Scandinavian allies, but after 1021 these had all been executed or expelled and the gaps in the administration were filled by Cnut’s “new men”.
		These were drawn both from Cnut’s English followers (as in the case of Earl Godwine) and Scandinavians imported into the English administration (as in the case of Earl Siward of Northumbria and the royal minister Tovi pruða), and they formed an Anglo-Scandinavian social-group who remained a significant force in English politics until the Norman Conquest.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1665 (746 words)

	Monarchy - Cnut
		Cnut (also known as Knut Sveinsson) came to the English throne as a consequence of sustained Viking attacks by his father, the Danish king Swein Forkbeard (died 1014), from the late 10th century.
		In 1016, Cnut agreed to share the kingdom with Edmund Ironside, son of Ethelred the Unready by his first wife, but seized it all when Edmund died soon afterwards.
		The story of Cnut trying to hold back the tide appeared about a century after his death, in the writings of Henry of Huntingdon.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/M/monarchy/biogs/cnut.html (397 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Reign of King Edward the Confessor
		To aid that claim, Cnut persuaded Emma to return to England in July 1017 and become his wife.
		Cnut was also married to Ælfgifu of Northampton, or had been prior to his marriage to Emma, and they had several children, including Harold Harefoot.
		Cnut’s two marriages may have overlapped or been contemporaneous but, in contemporary ethos, this did not necessarily imply illegitimacy or bigamy.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=620 (649 words)

	Kings of Britain - Ethelred II, Cnut, Edward the Confessor
		Left: King Cnut and his queen, Emma of Normandy, the widow of King Æthelred II, present a gold altar cross to the New Minisiter c.1031.
		Cnut called together a great assembly of nobles and Church leaders.
		Cnut died in 1035, leaving Harold and Harthacnut, his two sons.
	mr_sedivy.tripod.com /engrise9.html (463 words)

	Winning His Spurs by G. A. Henty: Chapter III. The Capture of Wortham Hold.
		After a search of two hours, Cnut decided that the only place in the copse in which it was likely that the entrance to a passage could be hidden, was a spot where the ground was covered thickly with ivy and trailing plants.
		Cuthbert had had some misgivings as to his mother's injunctions to take no part in the fray, and it cannot be said that in accompanying the foresters he obeyed the letter of her instructions.
		The movement was observed from the keep, and Cnut and a few of his men, stationed themselves with their battle-axes at the top of various stairs leading below.
	www.online-literature.com /ga-henty/winning-his-spurs/3 (2814 words)

	BBC - History - Trail Activity
		Fifty years before the Norman Conquest in 1066, England was conquered by a Danish prince, Cnut, who later became King of Denmark and ruled the two kingdoms jointly.
		The coinages in Scandinavia were far less developed than those in England, and it is a tribute to the Anglo-Saxon system of government and administration that Cnut adopted the existing arrangements for the coinage.
		In this, his second coin type, Cnut is depicted wearing a pointed battle helmet, a design which had been experimented with by his predecessor Æthelred II (978-1016).
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/trail/conquest/wessex_kings/coins_cnut_dmk.shtml (377 words)

	Urban Dictionary: cnut
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		cnut is a term used to describe a "conservative nut" (it aLso works for "christian nuts").
		For the English people, King Cnut's reign from 1017 to 1035 was much like the month of March, "in like a lion and out like a lamb".
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=cnut (681 words)

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