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.

1016 ), married first to Eric the Victorious, King of Sweden and later to Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark.

A son of Sweyn Forkbeard, and grandson of Harold Bluetooth, he was a member of the dynasty that was key to the unification and Christianisation of Denmark.

Father of Sweyn Forkbeard ; grandfather of Cnut the Great.

* Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark, Norway, and England, as well as founder of Swansea (" Sweyn's island ").

* February 3 – Sweyn I Haraldsson Forkbeard, king of Denmark

* Sweyn Forkbeard becomes King of Denmark.

* Sweyn Forkbeard marries Sigrid the Haughty.

In the year 1013 King Æthelred II fled the country from Sweyn Forkbeard, who then had the witan proclaim him king.

During his childhood aliens were the target of Viking raids and invasions under Sweyn Forkbeard and his son, Cnut.

Sweyn I Forkbeard ( Old Norse: Sveinn Tjúguskegg ; c. 960 − 3 February 1014 ) was king of Denmark and England, as well as parts of Norway.

On the northern edges of the relatively recent Holy Roman Empire, with its roots in Charlemagne's conquests about two hundred years prior to Sweyn's time, Sweyn Forkbeard had coins made with an image in his likeness.

Eiríkr Hákonarson ruled the purple area as a fiefdom from Sweyn Forkbeard.

His father was Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark ( which gave Cnut the patronym Sweynsson, Old Norse Sveinsson ).

Cnut was a son of the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard, and the heir to a line of Scandinavian rulers central to the unification of Denmark.

#* Sweyn Forkbeard.

When Sweyn Forkbeard seized the throne at the end of 1013 and Æthelred fled to France, the brothers do not appear to have followed him, but stayed in England.

# REDIRECT Sweyn Forkbeard

In retaliation for the St. Brice's Day massacre of Danes in England, the son of Harald, Sweyn Forkbeard mounted a series of wars of conquest against England.

Leofric may have gone into exile either in 1013 when Sweyn Forkbeard, the king of Denmark invaded England or in 1016, when Sweyn's son Cnut became king of England.

By the late 9th century, Danish invasions prompted at least a partial reoccupation of London by the Saxons ; the bridge may have been rebuilt around 990 under the Saxon king Æthelred the Unready, to hasten Saxon troop movements against Sweyn Forkbeard, father of Cnut.

She was responsible for introducing the bloodline of England's first Danish monarch King Sweyn Forkbeard into the Scottish Royal blood line, and after James VI of Scotland ascended to the English throne in 1603, into the English royal bloodline as well.

In 994 the Danes, under King Sweyn Forkbeard and Olav Tryggvason, returned and laid siege to London.

Later Haithabu was burned by Swedes, and first under the reign of King Sweyn Forkbeard ( Svend Tveskæg ) ( 986-1014 ) the situation was stabilised, although raids against Haithabu would be repeated.

The latter meaning has given the interpretation " tributary king " and one English scholar speculates about a tributary relationship to the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard, who was his stepfather.

Absalon first appears in Saxo Grammaticus's contemporary chronicle Gesta Danorum at the end of the civil war, at the brokering of the peace agreement between Sweyn III and Valdemar at St. Alban's Priory, Odense.

* Sweyn I of Denmark begins his first invasion of England.

According to Adam of Bremen, an 11th-century historian, Harald's son Sweyn was baptised Otto, in tribute to the German king Otto I, who was the first Holy Roman Emperor.

But since Adam is the only source to state the identity of Cnut's with Olof Skötkonung's mother, this is often seen as an error of Adam, and it is often assumed that Sweyn had two wives, the first being Cnut's mother, and the second being the former queen of Sweden.

Their first military exploit consisted of raiding the Danish coast, in an effort to impress the natives by demonstrating that Magnus offered them no protection, and thus leading them to submit to Harald and Sweyn.

Sweyn is often considered to be Denmark's last Viking king as well as the first medieval one.

Sigrid the Haughty, also known as Sigríð Storråda, is a queen appearing in Norse sagas as wife, first of Eric the Victorious of Sweden, then Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark.

Sweyn and Cnut then are the first two monarchs in a completely new succession, which was destined to be short-lived.

His character is first seen defending London from the Danish Invasion, but he later aligns himself with Prince Canute in an effort to dethrone Sweyn Forkbeard.

In the first book, John, wanting to get the mumps before Tom and Sweyn and expose them, sneaks into Howard's bedroom when he is quarantined with mumps and begs him to breathe on him, which Howard eventually does reluctantly.

Absalon probably did not take part in the following battle of Grathe Heath in 1157, in which Sweyn was defeated and slain and led to Valdemar ascending the Danish throne.

The pirates had raided the Danish coasts during the civil war of Sweyn III, Canute V, and Valdemar, to the point where at the accession of Valdemar one-third of Denmark lay wasted and depopulated.

Mieszko decided on the alliance with Sweden probably in order to help protect his possessions in Pomerania from the Danish King Harald I and his son Sweyn.

Even though Gospatric and Siward's son Waltheof submitted by the end of the year, the arrival of a Danish army under Sweyn Estridsson seemed to ensure that William's position remained weak.

* Sweyn I establishes Danish control over part of Norway.

* December – King Sweyn I leads a Danish invasion of England.

Beorn's elder brother, Sweyn of Denmark " submitted himself to Edward as a son ", hoping for his help in his battle with Magnus for control of Denmark, but in 1047 Edward rejected Godwin's demand that he send aid to Sweyn, and it was only Magnus's death in October that saved England from attack and allowed Sweyn to take the Danish throne.

Adam of Bremen's claim regarding Otto I and Harald appears to have been inspired by an attempt to manufacture a historical reason for the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen to claim jurisdiction over Denmark ( and thus the rest of Scandinavia ); in the 1070s, the Danish King was in Rome asking for Denmark to have its own arch-bishop, and Adam's account of Harald's supposed conversion ( and baptism of both him and his " little son " Sweyn, with Otto serving as Sweyn's godfather ) is followed by the unambiguous claim that " At that time Denmark on this side of the sea, which is called Jutland by the inhabitants, was divided into three dioceses and subjected to the bishopric of Hamburg.

Canute's nephew Sweyn Estridson ( 1020 – 74 ) re-established strong royal Danish authority and built a good relationship with Archbishop Adalbert of Hamburg-Bremen — at that time the Archbishop of all of Scandinavia.

In 1046, he joined forces with Magnus's rival in Denmark ( Magnus had also become king of Denmark ), the pretender Sweyn Estridsson, and started raiding the Danish coast.

Deciding to also press his claim to the Danish throne, Harald spent nearly every year until 1064 raiding the Danish coast and fighting his former ally, Sweyn.

After the death of Harthacnut, which had left the Danish throne vacant, Magnus had in addition been selected to be the king of Denmark, and thereafter also managed to defeat the Danish royal pretender Sweyn Estridsson.

In 1069 or 1070 the Danish king Sweyn Estrithson sent a small army to try to establish a camp on the Isle of Ely.

But according to Adam of Bremen, Sweyn Forkbeard was forced to defend his Danish kingdom from attacks by Olof who claimed the Danish throne.

Sweyn won great reputation at Lyrskov Heath, and had the Danish nobles crown him king in Viborg in Jutland.