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 US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : List of Danish monarchs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This house appears to have been a branch of the Swedish House of Munsö, as Sweyn's father was Ulf Jarl, who was the son of Thorgils Sprakalägg, the son of the disinherited Swedish prince Styrbjörn the Strong.
Sweyn had Danish Royal Blood in him through his mother, a daughter of Sweyn I. Picture
Sweyn III (Svend III Grathe), Canute V (Knud V) and Valdemar the Great (Valdemar I den Store)
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Niels of Denmark
He was presumably the youngest son of king Sweyn Estridson and married Margaret, princess of Sweden, with whom he had Magnus the Strong.
Finally king Niels himself was felled, and thus ended the reign of the last of Sweyn Estridson's sons.
He and his brothers had ruled Denmark for a total of sixty years, and while all of them were remarkable in their own way, Niels was perhaps the best one, a skilled administrator and pragmatician who finished what his father had started and brought Denmark all the way into the Middle Ages.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Niels_of_Denmark   (559 words)

  
 Northvegr - Saxo's The History of the Danes
Sweyn speaks of Saxo with respect; he not obscurely leaves him the task of filling up his omissions.
Sweyn Aageson is known to have had strong family connections with the monastery of St. Laurence; but there is only a tolerably strong probability that he, and therefore that Saxo, was actually a member of it.
But about 1185 we find Sweyn Aageson complimenting Saxo, and saying that Saxo "had `determined' to set forth all the deeds" of Sweyn Estridson, in his eleventh book, "at greater length in a more elegant style".
www.northvegr.org /lore/saxo/000_01.php   (1900 words)

  
 Claim to The English Throne
e was the grandson of Sweyn Forkbeard and nephew of Canute.
Sweyn Forkbeard and Canute took England by force, were not Saxon.
Sweyn Estridson (Sweyn Estrithson) had problems in his own country with the threat of invasion from Norway, so he never made a claim for the English throne.
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 A Brief History of Denmark
Sweyn became king of Denmark about 985 and in 1000 he conquered Norway.
In 1047 Sweyn Estridson became king of Denmark.
Sweyn was followed by 5 of his sons in turn.
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 alians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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 SWEYN ESTRIDSON
Was the son of Sweyn I "Forkbeard"s daughter Estrid.
After that Sweyn begun to build a strong foundation for royal power through cooperation with the church.
However after capturing York Sweyn accepted a payment from William to desert Edgar, who returned into exile in Scotland.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/SWEYN+ESTRIDSON   (116 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Edgar Atheling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The next year Malcolm married Edgar's sister Margaret, and agreed to support Edgar in his attempt to claim the English crown.
Edgar now made common cause with Sweyn Estridson, the king of Denmark and nephew of Canute, who believed he was the rightful king of England.
They captured York, but did not proclaim the independence of Northumbria.
www.internet-encyclopedia.org /wiki.php?title=Edgar_Atheling   (672 words)

  
 Saints
The illegitimate son of King Sven II Estridson of Denmark, Canute succeeded his brother Harald III Hen in 1081.
He returned to Norway in 1015, captured most of Norway back from the Danes and Swedes, defeated Earl Sweyn at the battle of Nesjar in 1016, and became king.
He set about unifying and Christianizing his realm, but the harshness of his rule precipitated a revolt of the nobles in 1029, and aided by Canute of Denmark, they defeated him and forced him to flee to Russia.
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 History of Denmark at AllExperts
After the death of Canute the Great in 1035, England broke away from Danish control and Denmark fell into disarray for some time.
Canute's nephew Sweyn Estridson (1020-1074) re-established strong royal authority and built a good relationship with the Archbishop of Bremen, who was at that time the Archbishop of all of Scandinavia.
In the early 12th century Denmark became the seat of an independent church province of Scandinavia.
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 [EMLS 2.1 (April 1996: 5.1-51)] Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, and Martin Luther.
Until the 11th century, the kingship of Denmark was settled by violence.
In 1047, Sweyn Estridson was elected king, and his dynasty reigned until 1319.
However, when King Erik Glipping was murdered in 1286, his 12-year-old son was forced to sign a charter by the so-called "hof" comprising bishops and magnates.
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 Gesta Danorum - Wikipedia Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It is then believed that Saxo wrote Book 11, 12 and 13.
We know from Svend Aagesen's history of Denmark, Brevis Historia Regum Dacie, ca 1186, were it is stated that Saxo had decided to write about "The king-father and his sons" which would be King Sweyn Estridson, which is book 11, 12, 13.
He would then later add the 10 first books.
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 Monarch
his brother-in-law and Sweyn I's grand-nephew, Harold II (1066)
died 1014 : Sweyn I Forkbeard (or maybe Svein I Doublebeard) (Svend I Tveskæg)
1146-1157 : Sweyn III (Svend III Grathe), Canute V(Knud V) and Valdemar the Great (Valdemar I den Store)
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/MONARCH   (7975 words)

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