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Also Known As Knut den Mektige • Knut den Store • Canute the Great • Knud den Store • Canute II
Died November 12, 1035
Title / Office king (1028-1035), Norway • king (1019-1035), Denmark • king (1016-1035), England
Notable Family Members father Sweyn I • son Hardecanute • son Harold I

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King of Denmark
Sweyn I
king of Denmark and England
Margaret I
Margaret I
queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
John of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden; detail from a plaster cast of his tombstone, original sculpture by Claus Berg, c. 1513; in the Cathedral of St. Canute, Odense, Den.
John
king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
Frederick I
Frederick I
king of Denmark and Norway
Hannibal Sehested
Hannibal Sehested
Danish statesman
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Erik VII
king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
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Christopher III
king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
Valdemar IV Atterdag
Valdemar IV Atterdag
king of Denmark
Valdemar II, coin, 13th century; in the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen
Valdemar II
king of Denmark
Canute VI
Canute VI
king of Denmark
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Haakon IV Haakonsson
king of Norway
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Harald III Sigurdsson
king of Norway
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Magnus I Olafsson
king of Norway and Denmark
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Erik VI
king of Denmark
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Christian Günther, count von Bernstorff
Danish diplomat
Hardecanute
Hardecanute
king of Denmark and England
Carl Christian Hall, detail of an oil painting by J.V. Gertner, 1864; in Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark
Carl Christian Hall
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J.H.E., count von Bernstorff
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Peter Rochegune Munch
Danish politician
Alfred the Great
Alfred
king of Wessex

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