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Cnut the Great[2] (Old English: Cnut se Micela, Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki[3] c. 995[4] – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute—whose father was Sweyn Forkbeard (which gave him the patronym Sweynsson, Old Norse: Sveinsson)—was King of Denmark, England and Norway; together often referred to as the North Sea Empire. Yet after the deaths of his heirs within a decade of his own, and the Norman conquest of England in 1066, this legacy was lost. He is popularly invoked in the context of the legend of King Canute and the tide, which usually misrepresents him as a deluded monarch believing he has supernatural powers, contrary to the original legend which portrays a wise king who rebuked his courtiers for their fawning behaviour.
As a Danish prince, Cnut won the throne of England in 1016 in the wake of centuries of Viking activity in northwestern Europe. His latter accession to the Danish throne in 1018 brought the crowns of England and Denmark together. Cnut sought to keep this power-base by uniting Danes and English under cultural bonds of wealth and custom, as well as through sheer brutality. After a decade of conflict with opponents in Scandinavia, Cnut claimed the crown of Norway in Trondheim in 1028. The Swedish city Sigtuna was held by Cnut (he had coins struck there that called him king, but there is no narrative record of his occupation).[5]
Dominion of England lent the Danes an important link to the maritime zone between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, where Cnut, like his father before him, had a strong interest and wielded much influence among the Norse–Gaels.[6] Cnut's possession of England's dioceses and the continental Diocese of Denmark—with a claim laid upon it by the Holy Roman Empire's Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen—was a source of great prestige and leverage within the Catholic Church and among the magnates of Christendom (gaining notable concessions such as one on the price of the pallium of his bishops, though they still had to travel to obtain the pallium, as well as on the tolls his people had to pay on the way to Rome). After his 1026 victory against Norway and Sweden, and on his way back from Rome where he attended the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor, Cnut, in a letter written for the benefit of his subjects, deemed himself "King of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes".[7] The Anglo-Saxon kings used the title "king of the English". Cnut was ealles Engla landes cyning—"king of all England". Medieval historian Norman Cantor called him "the most effective king in Anglo-Saxon history".[8]
"Cnut the Great (995-1035)"
King of England, King of Norway, King of Denmark
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Query: SELECT tng_medialinks.medialinkID, tng_medialinks.personID as personID, people.burialtype, people.living as living, people.private as private, people.branch as branch, tng_medialinks.eventID,
tng_families.branch as fbranch, tng_families.living as fliving, tng_families.private as fprivate, people.lastname as lastname, people.lnprefix as lnprefix, people.firstname as firstname, people.prefix as prefix, people.suffix as suffix, people.nameorder, people.title, altdescription, altnotes, tng_medialinks.gedcom,
people.birthdate, people.birthdatetr, people.altbirthdate, people.altbirthdatetr, people.deathdate, people.deathdatetr, familyID, people.personID as personID2, wifepeople.personID as wpersonID, wifepeople.personID as wife, wifepeople.firstname as wfirstname, wifepeople.lnprefix as wlnprefix, wifepeople.lastname as wlastname,
wifepeople.prefix as wprefix, wifepeople.suffix as wsuffix, husbpeople.personID as hpersonID, husbpeople.personID as husband, husbpeople.firstname as hfirstname, husbpeople.lnprefix as hlnprefix, husbpeople.lastname as hlastname,
husbpeople.prefix as hprefix, husbpeople.suffix as hsuffix, tng_sources.title as stitle, tng_sources.sourceID, tng_repositories.repoID, reponame, linktype
FROM tng_medialinks
LEFT JOIN tng_people AS people ON tng_medialinks.personID = people.personID AND tng_medialinks.gedcom = people.gedcom
LEFT JOIN tng_families ON tng_medialinks.personID = tng_families.familyID AND tng_medialinks.gedcom = tng_families.gedcom
LEFT JOIN tng_people AS husbpeople ON tng_families.husband = husbpeople.personID AND tng_families.gedcom = husbpeople.gedcom
LEFT JOIN tng_people AS wifepeople ON tng_families.wife = wifepeople.personID AND tng_families.gedcom = wifepeople.gedcom
LEFT JOIN tng_sources ON tng_medialinks.personID = tng_sources.sourceID AND tng_medialinks.gedcom = tng_sources.gedcom
LEFT JOIN tng_repositories ON (tng_medialinks.personID = tng_repositories.repoID AND tng_medialinks.gedcom = tng_repositories.gedcom)
WHERE mediaID = "3152" ORDER BY people.lastname, people.lnprefix, people.firstname, hlastname, hlnprefix, hfirstname LIMIT 101
Got error 28 from storage engine
995 - 1035 (~ 40 years)