Canute II King Of Denmark 
Canute II King Of's father was Svend I "Forked Beard" Sweyn King of Denmark and his mother was Queen of Sweden, Norway and Denmark. His paternal grandfather was Harald "The Blue Tooth" King of Denmark and his paternal grandmother is Gunhild Queen of Denmark; his maternal grandparents were Mieszko I Prince Of Poland and Dbubravka Princess Of Bohemia. He has a sister named Estrid.General Notes
Canute, the son of Sweyn I Forkbeard, king of the Danes, conquered England in 1013. When his father died the following year, he was proclaimed king of England by his Danish warriors. However, the witenagemot, an advisory body to the Anglo-Saxon kings, reinstated King Ethelred, and Canute fled. He returned in 1015 and soon subjugated all of England, except London. After Ethelred's death in 1016, the Londoners named his son, Edmund II, king. During an ensuing struggle, the Londoners were defeated at Ashingdon, Essex, in October 1016. The following month Edmund died and Canute emerged the undisputed king. A wise and effective ruler, he reconciled with the English and maintained peace with the Continental powers. To that end he married King Ethelred's widow, Emma of Normandy, supported the church, and in 1027 went to Rome for the coronation of Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II. For administrative purposes he divided England into the four earldoms of Mercia, Northumberland, Wessex, and East Anglia.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0814 in Hord, Denmark
- b.0840 in Denmark d.0940 in Jellinge, Denmark
- b.0818 in Denmark
- b.0910 in GORMSSON, <BORN: 910 d.BET. 985 - 1 NOV 987 in probably Denmark
- b.0844 in Denmark d.0935 in Jellinge, Denmark
- b.0960 in Denmark d.2 FEB 1013/14 in Gainsborough, England
- b.0930 in Denmark
- b.0835 in Poznan, Poland d.0892 in Poland
- b.0865 in Poznan, Poland d.0921 in Poland
- b.0840 in Poznan, Poland
- b.0892 in Poznan, Poland d.< 0964 in probably Poland
- b.0869 in Poznan, Poland
- b.~ 0922 in Poznan,Poland d.25 MAY 992 in Poland?
- b.0896 in Poznan, Poland
- b.0970 in Pozan, Poland d. in England?
- b.0842 in Praha, Czechoslovakia d.0894 in Tetin, Czechoslovakia
- b.0877 in Praha, Czechoslovakia d.13 FEB 920/21
- b.0853 in Psov, Czechoslovakia/Slovakia d.16 SEP 921
- b.0900 in Praha, Czechoslovakia d.15 JUL 967
- b.0881 in Praha, Czechoslovakia d.0937
- b.0931 in Praha,Czechoslovakia d.0977 in Poland?
- b.0901 in Praha, Czechoslovakia
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He had a biological son named Harold I.
They had two sons named Hardecanute and Harold I.
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