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Canute's headaches came to a head in 1085-86, when he decided to invade England and try to take the throne from William I who was old and by some reports failing.
As a close relative of Canute the Great, Canute's claim was easily as valid as that of William of Normandy's.
With the co-operation of Robert I, Count of Flanders, his father-in-law, Canute ordered an armada of 1, 000 Danish ships and 60 Norwegian ships to assemble at Struer in the Limfjord, northern Jutland, in the summer of 1085.
As had been the tradition since the first Viking raid on England, local chiefs gathered ships, supplies, sailors, and warriors for a share of the profits, loot, slaves, and treasure taken during the raid.
Canute in the meantime travelled from assembly to assembly in southern Jutland ordering his people to pay tithes, a tenth of all their produce for the church.
The tithes and new tax were not well received, and when his brother, Olaf, protested, Canute had him arrested and exiled to Flanders in chains, believing that Olaf was responsible for the growing unrest.
They told themselves that the weather would turn bad before they could complete a successful raid, and that such a late start would spell disaster.
The order to assemble had not been made at an assembly, and was therefore unlawful in the popular view.
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