Swein Forkbeard, King of England and Denmark

Abt 960 - 1014  (~ 54 years)

• Name	Swein Forkbeard
  Suffix	King of England and Denmark
  Born	Abt 960  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	3 Feb 1014	Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England   [1, 2]
  Buried	Roskilde, Zealand, Denmark   [2]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Tyre Haraldsdatter ,   d. 18 Sep 1000 + 2. Swein Forkbeard, King of England and Denmark ,   b. Abt 960,   d. 3 Feb 1014, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England  (Age ~ 54 years)
  Person ID	I2181	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	6 Jun 2019

  
  

  Father	Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark and Norway,   b. Abt 910,   d. Abt 986  (Age ~ 76 years)
  Mother	Gunhild
  Family ID	F1227	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Canute, King of England, Denmark, and Norway,   d. 12 Nov 1035, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England   2. Harald II, King of Denmark,   d. 1018 + 3. Gyda Svendsdatter + 4. Estrid, Queen of Denmark,   b. Abt 990,   d. Between 1057 and 1073  (Age ~ 67 years)
  Last Modified	6 Jun 2019
  Family ID	F1219	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Sveinn Haraldsson, Sveinn Tjúguskegg. "He died at Gainsborough on 3 February 1014 and was buried initially at York but, according to Thietmar of Merseburg, an unnamed English woman, fearing that Æthelred would, on his return from exile, destroy the body, had it exhumed and sent to Denmark, where it was reburied in Roskilde." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  
  

• Sources

  [S49] Genealogics, by Leo Van de Pas. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.