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3 days ago · King Olaf Haraldsson was unable to put up a serious fight, both as his nobles had been bribed by Cnut and (according to Adam of Bremen) because he tended to apprehend their wives for sorcery. [72] Cnut was crowned king, now of England, Denmark and Norway as well as part of Sweden. [29]
5 days ago · This amiable King of Denmark, third son of Canute, succeeded to the English crown on the death of his brother, Harold Harefoot, whose body, it is related, he caused to be dug up from its tomb at Winchester, and afterwards to be beheaded and thrown into the Thames.
4 days ago · In 1040, King Harold I Harefoot was buried at Westminster, but his body is said to have been disinterred by his successor and half-brother, Harthacnut.
1 day ago · Harold Harefoot became king of England after Cnut's death, and Viking rule of England ceased. [clarification needed] The Viking presence declined until 1066, when they lost their final battle with the English at Stamford Bridge.
2 days ago · His sons, Harold Harefoot and Harthacnut, succeeded him in parts of his empire, but were unable to maintain the unity and strength that their father had established. By 1042, with the death of Harthacnut, the personal union of these kingdoms dissolved, and the North Sea Empire ceased to exist.
4 days ago · Alfred the Great was King of Wessex from 871-899, Edmund Ironside was King of England for a short period in 1016, and Harold Harefoot reigned from 1035-1040.
3 days ago · Harold Harefoot succeeded his father Canute as king. Emma's son by Aethelred, Alfred, was cruelly killed on Harold Harefoot's orders (or so it was suspected). Feeling threatened, Emma left England until her son Hardicanute could come and claim the throne for himself.
2 days ago · Stephen (1092 or 1096 – 25 October 1154), often referred to as Stephen of Blois, was King of England from 22 December 1135 to his death in 1154. He was Count of Boulogne jure uxoris from 1125 until 1147 and Duke of Normandy from 1135 until 1144.
4 days ago · Upon accession to the English throne, he styled himself "King of Great Britain" and was so proclaimed. Legally, however, he and his successors held separate English and Scottish kingships until the Act of Union of 1707, when the two kingdoms were united as the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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