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Facts

Also Known As Svend Tveskaeg • Svein Tjugeskjegg • Sweyn Forkbeard
Died February 3, 1014 • Gainsborough • England
Title / Office king (987-1014), Denmark • king (1013-1014), England
Notable Family Members father Harald I • son Canute I

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Canute
Canute (I)
king of England, Denmark, and Norway
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
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Erik VII
king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
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Christopher III
king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
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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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Anton Frederik Tscherning
Danish politician
Hardecanute
Hardecanute
king of Denmark and England
Alfred the Great
Alfred
king of Wessex
Vidkun Quisling
Vidkun Quisling
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Anker Jørgensen
prime minister of Denmark
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
prime minister of Denmark
King Frederik of Denmark
Frederik X
king of Denmark
An Australian queen
Queen Mary of Denmark
queen of Denmark
Mette Frederiksen
Mette Frederiksen
prime minister of Denmark
Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.
Johannes Ewald
Danish poet
Margrethe II
Margrethe II
queen of Denmark

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