On This Day In History: Canute – Cnut The Great – Danish King Of England Died – On Nov 12, 1035
AncientPages.com - On November 12, 1035, King Canute (Cnut The Great) died, a Danish King of England and ruler of one of the largest Nordic empires.
The Viking king had to fight very hard to reach his power.
Cnut reproving the flattery of his courtiers. Cnut the Great (995 - November 12, 1035) was King of Denmark, England, and Norway; often referred to as the North Sea Empire. source
His father, the Danish Viking King Sven Forkbeard (Sven Tveskäg), son of Harald Bluetooth, sailed with his fleet for England in the summer of 1013. He aimed to overthrow the Anglo-Saxon King Aethelred the Redeless and conquer the islands.
Canute proved to be an effective ruler. He divided England into territorial lordships, owing loyalty to the king; he provided a unified governmental system that would last until the Tudors. He stabilized the English coinage by introducing coins of equal weight to Scandinavian currencies, which contributed to thereby encouraging international trade.
He was King of Denmark and England, for a time King of Norway, and possibly lord of parts of Sweden. He was the most powerful king in northern Europe in the early eleventh century.
There is very little historical information about him.
Knut died on November 12, 1035; he was only 40 years old.
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