However, Æthelred's son Edmund II Ironside died shortly afterwards, allowing Canute, Sweyn's son, to become king of England.

* Battle of Brentford: Edmund II gains a temporary victory over Canute the Great.

* Canute of Denmark and Edmund II divide England.

* Canute the Great becomes king of Denmark ( or 1019 ), succeeding Harald II.

* April 19 – Canute II of Denmark is canonized.

The best-known examples of the questionable advice given by the English witenagemot are when on January 5, 1066 it approved the succession to the kingship of Harold Godwinson ( Harold Godwin ) following the death of Edward the Confessor, and 50 years earlier, in 1016, it had approved the splitting of the kingdom between the Saxon Edmund II and the Danish king Canute.

* Skuli Tostisson Kongsfostre ( born 1052 )-Whose great-great-granddaughter Helena Guttormsdotter was the mistress of Valdemar II of Denmark and mother of Valdemar's son Canute, Duke of Reval.

Canute was canonized in 1101 by Pope Pascal II.

In 1247, royal troops led by Birger at the Battle of Sparrsätra ( Slaget vid Sparrsätra ) fought with Folkung forces led by pretender Holmger Knutsson, son of King Canute II.

Coin bearing the effigy of Canute II

Canute II Holmgersson, called the Tall (), was King of Sweden from 1229 until his death 1234.

Knut Holmgersson was crowned King Canute II of Sweden in 1231 but his time in office was short and he died 1234.

Canute was born, one of the many illegitimate sons of Sweyn II Estridsson.

On 19 April 1101, persuaded by the envoys from Eric III of Denmark, Pope Paschal II confirmed the " cult of Canute " that had arisen, and King Canute IV was canonized as a saint under the name San Canuto.

* Canute II of Sweden ( Swedish: Knut Långe ) ( r. 1229 – 1234 )

The first Folkung uprising in 1229 was successful, elevating Canute II on the throne.

His court was of an international flavour, receiving ambassadors from the Emperor Henry II, Alfonso V of León, Canute the Great, and even his suzerain, Robert of France.

The forces attacking Dobin included those of the Danes Canute V and Sweyn III, Archbishop Adalbert II of Bremen, and Duke Henry the Lion of Saxony.

Canute II may refer to:

* Thietmar of Merseburg mentions that the daughter of Mieszko I of Poland and sister of Boleslaw I of Poland married Sweyn Forkbeard and gave him two sons, Canute the Great and Harold II of Denmark, but he does not mention her name.

* Adam of Bremen writes almost a century later that a Polish princess-the sister or daughter of Boleslaw I of Poland-was the wife of Eric the Victorious and by this marriage the mother of Olof Skötkonung of Sweden, before she became mother of Canute the Great and Harold II of Denmark in her second marriage with Sweyn.

King Eric I of Denmark went to Rome on a pilgrimage and secured two important concessions from Pope Pascal II: sainthood for his murdered brother, Saint Canute IV and the creation of an archdiocese that included all of Scandinavia.

Their sole historically attested child was Sverker Karlsson, a young boy when Charles died, and who later became the chosen king Sverker II of Sweden ( 1195 – 1208 / 10 ) after the death of Charles ' rival king Canute I.

1016 ), perhaps married firstly with Eric the Victorious, King of Sweden, and later wife of Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, by whom she is said to have been mother of Canute the Great, King of Denmark, Norway and England.

* 1085: the Katedralskolan, Lund school of Sweden is established by Canute IV of Denmark

* Canute the Great, ruler of England, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

* November 12 – Canute the Great, king of England, of Denmark, of Norway, part of Sweden, and the territories near the legendary Jomsviking stronghold Jomsburg

Cnut the Great ( Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki ; c. 985 or 995 – 12 November 1035 ), also known as Canute, was a king of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden.

Canute did the same in Scania ( southern Sweden ).

King Canute ( Knútr in Old Norse ) was the king of England ( 1016 – 1035 ) and later king of Denmark, Norway and parts of Sweden as well.

His mother, an important heiress, descended from Jarl Charles the Deaf and consequently from some ancient Folkunge earls of Sweden, as well as from a daughter of Canute IV of Denmark and Adela of Flanders.

Canute was a member of the council that ruled Sweden from 1222 to 1229, during the early reign of Eric XI.

In 1150, Richeza's oldest son, King Canute V of Jutland, took refuge in Sweden after he was expelled from Denmark by Sweyn III Grathe, King of Zealand.

When Sweyn died, Canute's brother Harald III was elected King, and as Canute went into exile in Sweden, he was possibly involved in the active opposition to Harald.

In Sweden and Finland he is historically, however, partially associated with St. Knut's Day, which in reality was celebrated in the memory of the death of his nephew, Canute Lavard.

* Canute I of Sweden ( Swedish: Knut Eriksson ) ( r. 1173 – 1195 )

# Canute I of Sweden, King of Sweden 1167 – 1196.

Also known as Eric the Survivor ( Swedish: " Erik som överlevde ") when he became King, he was the only remaining son of King Canute I of Sweden and his queen of an undetermined name, who probably was Cecilia Johansdotter.

# Redirect Canute I of Sweden

When his father Karl had been murdered in Visingsö in 1167, apparently by minions of the next king Canute I of Sweden, Sverker was taken to Denmark while a boy and grew up with his mother's clan of Hvide, leaders of Zealand.

When King Canute I of Sweden died in 1196, his sons were only children.