Canute, King of England, Denmark, and Norway: NH genealogy

Nielsen Hayden genealogy

- 1035

Generation: 1

Canute, King of England, Denmark, and Norway died on 12 Nov 1035 in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England; was buried in Old Minster, Winchester, England.

Notes:

Probably more correctly spelled Cnut.

"Cnut died at Shaftesbury on 12 November 1035 and was buried in the Old Minster, Winchester, perhaps near the relics of St Swithun. His bones, together with those of other pre-conquest monarchs, were later transferred into the new cathedral built by the Normans, and in 1642 were removed from the chest in which they lay and scattered by parliamentarian troops. In 1661 they are said to have been placed in two new receptacles, which are among the six mortuary chests still to be seen in the cathedral. However, it is hardly surprising that examination of all the chests has shown their contents to be thoroughly jumbled: there is now no way of knowing whether Cnut's bones survive in Winchester, and if so which they are." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Family/Spouse: Emma of Normandy, Queen Consort of England; Queen Consort of Denmark and Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

2. Gunhilda of Denmark was born about 1020; died on 18 Jul 1038; was buried in Limburg Abbey, Bad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Family/Spouse: Ælfgifu of Northampton, Queen Consort of England. Ælfgifu was born about 990; died after 1036. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

3. Svein Knutsson, King of Norway was born about 1016; died in 1035.
4. Harold Harefoot, King of England was born about 1016; died on 17 Mar 1040 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; was buried in St. Clement Danes, Westminster, Middlesex, England.

Generation: 2

Gunhilda of Denmark

(1.Canute¹) was born about 1020; died on 18 Jul 1038; was buried in Limburg Abbey, Bad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Gunhilda married Heinrich III, Holy Roman Emperor in 1036 in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Heinrich (son of Conrad II "The Salic", Holy Roman Emperor and Gisele of Swabia) was born on 28 Oct 1016; died on 5 Oct 1056 in Bodfeld, Harz, Germany; was buried in Speyer Cathedral, Speyer, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

3. Svein Knutsson, King of Norway (1.Canute¹) was born about 1016; died in 1035.
4. Harold Harefoot, King of England (1.Canute¹) was born about 1016; died on 17 Mar 1040 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; was buried in St. Clement Danes, Westminster, Middlesex, England.