Hardecanute King of Denmark & England 
Hardecanute King of Denmark & was born about 1019 in London, Middlesex, England. Hardecanute King of Denmark &'s father was Canute "The Great" King of England and his mother was Emma of Normandy. His maternal grandparents were Richard I "The Fearless" Duke of Normandy and Gunnora (Gundra) de Crepon. He had a sister named Gunhilda Princess of. He was the older of the two children. He had two half-brothers and two half-sisters, named Edward "The Confessor" King of, Edred Prince of, Godgifu Princess of and Goda of. He died on June 8th, 1042.General Notes
Hardecanute, also spelled HARDICANUTE, or HARTHACNUT, Danish HARDEKNUD (b. c 1019 - d. 8 June 1042), king of Denmark from 1028 to 1042 and of England from 1040 to 1042.
Son of King Canute and Emma, daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normandy, Hardecanute was made king of Denmark by Canute in 1028. On Canute's death in 1035, a party wished to elect Hardecanute king of England, but Leofric, earl of Mercia, with the Londoners and the northern thanes obtained the appointment of Canute's illegitimate son Harold as regent of England, while Emma and her son'e retainers stayed at Winchester to guard Hardecanute's interests. Hardecanute's delaying in Denmark resulted in Harold's recognition as king of England in 1037 and in Emma's exile. After Harold's death in 1040 Hardecanute became an unpopular king in England. He had Harold's body dug up and thrown into a fen; and when two officials collecting a tax were killed at Worcester, he sent an army that burned the city. The murder of Eadwulf, earl of Northumbria, while under Hardecanute's safe-conduct caused Hardecanute to be described as a pledge breaker in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. [Encyclopaedia Britannica]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0995 in Denmark d.12 Nov 1035 in Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire, England
- b.~ 1019 in London, Middlesex, England d.08 Jun 1042
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.0986 in Normandy, France d.6 MAR 1051/52 in Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire, England
- b.0911 in Arque, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0942 in Arque, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1031 in France
- b.0923 in Sweden
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