Harthacnut, however, was unable to travel to his coronation in England because his Danish kingdom was under threat of invasion by King Magnus I of Norway and King Anund Jacob of Sweden.

Having heard of Sweyn's defeat by Magnus, Harald met up with his fellow exile in Sweden ( who was also his nephew ), as well as with the Swedish king Anund Jacob, and the three joined forces against Magnus.

The youngest of six siblings, his elder siblings are actor Ralph Fiennes, filmmakers Sophie Fiennes and Martha Fiennes, composer Magnus Fiennes, and conservationist Jacob Fiennes, his twin brother.

She had returned to England ( at least ) by 1036, while Emma's son Harthacnut was away in Denmark, at war with the Norwegian king Magnus I, and the Swedes under their king Anund Jacob.

He is the eldest of six children, his siblings being actor Joseph Fiennes ( Shakespeare in Love, Luther, FlashForward ); Martha Fiennes, a director ( in her film Onegin, he played the title role ); Magnus Fiennes, a composer ; Sophie Fiennes, a filmmaker ; and Jacob Fiennes, a conservationist.

Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten

Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten depicted by Carl Friedrich Bender

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Count Georg Magnus Sprengtporten, or Göran Magnus Sprengtporten as he preferred to call himself, ( December 16, 1740-October 13, 1819 ) was a Swedish, Finnish and Russian politician, younger brother of Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten.

When the Prussians began to worry about their borders, he sent Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten with light troops ( the so-called Sprengtportenska ) to Mecklenburg and on 23 December defeated a Prussian force at Malchin on 23 December.

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Augustine of Hippo, Pope Innocent VIII, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Peter of Paluda, Martin of Arles and Ludovico Maria Sinistrari believed that demons could fecundate women, but Ulrich Molitor, Heinrich Kramer, Jacob Sprenger and Nicholas Remy disagreed.

The famous Danish archaeologist Professor Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae ( 1821 – 85 ) promoted the attribution to St Magnus of Orkney during his visit to the British Isles in 1846-7, when he was formulating the concept of the ' Viking Age ', and a history of London written in 1901 concluded that " the Danes, on their second invasion ... added at least two churches with Danish names, Olaf and Magnus ".

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He was a court poet to King Olaf II of Norway, as well as Canute the Great, Magnus the Good and Anund Jacob, by whose reigns his floruit can be dated to the earlier eleventh century.

A number of famous Swedes have descended from Marcus and his wife Fredrika Isaksdotter ( 1760-1826, originally Freideh Isaac ), such as historian Hugo Valentin, TV producer Gunilla Marcus-Luboff, Judge Stig Marcus, the Bonnier publishing dynasty, opera star Isa Quensel, industralist Stefan Anderson, photographer Mattias Klum, pop entertainer Magnus Uggla, TV journalist Jens von Reis, writer-impresario Jacob Truedson Demitz, banking attorney Biörn Riese and drama director Annabelle Rice.

Hans Egede's Hope Colony was organized under the auspices of the Bergen Greenland Company prior to its bankruptcy in 1727 ; it was succeeded by the merchant Jacob Severin ( 1733 – 1749 ), the General Trade Company ( Det almindelige Handelskompagni ; 1749 – 1774 ), and finally the Royal Greenland Trading Department ( KGH ; 1776 – 1908 ).

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Third Volume of a 1727 edition of Plutarch's Lives printed by Jacob Tonson.

Jacob Tonson printed several editions of the Lives in English in the late 17th century, beginning with a 5-volume set printed in 1688 and subsequent editions printed in 1693, 1702, 1716, and 1727.

Poleni described his machine in his Miscellanea in 1709, but it was also described by Jacob Leupold in his Theatrum Machinarum Generale, (" The General Theory of Machines ") which was published in 1727.

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa

* 1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam.

* 1962 – Jacob Matlala, South African boxer

Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.

* 1955 – Jacob Lew, American politician, 25th White House Chief of Staff

* 1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.

* 1489 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer ( d. 1553 )

* 1996 – Jacob Latimore, American singer and actor

* 1978 – Jacob Burns, Australian footballer

* 1876 – Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher and politician ( d. 1958 )

The element was isolated independently by two chemists, Carl Jacob Löwig and Antoine Jerome Balard, in 1825 – 1826.

Prince Eugene of Savoy ( 1663 – 1736 ) by Jacob van Schuppen.

* Project Gutenberg's The Balkan Wars: 1912 – 1913, by Jacob Gould Schurman

Hans ' great-great grandson, David Jacob Eisenhower ( 1863 – 1942 ), was Dwight's father, and was a college-educated engineer, despite his own father Jacob's urging to stay on the family farm.

* 1654 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician ( d. 1705 )

Edvard Munch was related to painter Jacob Munch ( 1776 – 1839 ) and historian Peter Andreas Munch ( 1810 – 1863 ).

* 1973 – Jacob M. Appel, American bioethicist

* 1761 – Jacob Kimball, Jr., American composer ( d. 1826 )

* 1927 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch pilot ( d. 1977 )