William of Normandy, Harald III of Norway ( aided by Harold Godwin's estranged brother Tostig ) and Sweyn II of Denmark all asserted claims to the throne.

The chronicler also claimed that the duke secured the support of Emperor Henry IV and King Sweyn II of Denmark, but as Henry was still a minor and Sweyn was more likely to support Harold, who could then help Sweyn against the Norwegian king, these claims should be treated with caution.

* Following the death of Sweyn I, Ethelred II returns to England and reclaims the English crown.

* Hedeby is sacked by King Harald Hardråde of Norway during the course of a conflict with Sweyn II of Denmark.

* Sweyn II is crowned king of Denmark.

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

Harold was a son of Godwin, the powerful Earl of Wessex, and his wife Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, whose supposed brother Ulf Jarl was the son-in-law of Sweyn I and the father of Sweyn II of Denmark.

However, the latter made no recorded effort to entrench his grand-nephew's position as heir to a throne which was being eyed by a range of powerful potential contenders including England's leading aristocrat Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex and the foreign rulers William, Duke of Normandy, Sweyn II Estrithson, King of Denmark and Harald Hardrada, King of Norway.

1069 Sweyn II of Denmark lands with an army, in much the same way as Harald Hardrada.

In the late summer of 1069 a large fleet sent by Sweyn II of Denmark arrived off the coast of England, sparking a new wave of rebellions across the country.

In 1069 he, along with Robert Malet and Ralph de Gael ( the then Earl of Norfolk ), defeated Sweyn Estrithson ( Sweyn II ) of Denmark near Ipswich.

Coin of Sweyn II.

Sweyn II Estridsson Ulfsson (, ) ( – 28 April 1074 or 1076 ) was King of Denmark from 1047 until his death in 1074.

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

The donation might have had the aim of establishing the Danish Archdiocese of Lund according to Sweyn II Estridsson's wishes, which was finally achieved in 1104.

When Sweyn II invaded Northern England in 1069, Waltheof and Edgar Ætheling joined the Danes and took part in the attack on York.

He took part in a failed uprising to support the 1069 invasion by Sweyn II of Denmark and Edgar Ætheling ( including an attack on York ), but then once again submitted to the William and was granted Judith, the King's niece, to marry.

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Adam had heard the story from King Sweyn II of Denmark.

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.

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.

In 1003, King Sweyn invaded England and in 1013, Æthelred fled to Normandy and was replaced by Sweyn, who was also king of Denmark.

Svend Aagesen's history of Denmark, Brevis Historia Regum Dacie ( circa 1186 ), states that Saxo had decided to write about " The king-father and his sons ," which would be King Sweyn Estridson, in Books 11, 12, and 13.

Æthelred ruled a long reign but ultimately lost his kingdom to Sweyn of Denmark, though he recovered it following the latter's death.

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

The Heimskringla tells that her father Finn had been an adviser to Harald Hardraade and, after falling out with Harald, was then made an Earl by Sweyn Estridsson, King of Denmark, which may have been another recommendation for the match.

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.

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

Although William returned to York and built another castle, Edgar remained free and in the autumn joined up with King Sweyn of Denmark.

* Sweyn III of Denmark

* Sigrid the Haughty, wife of Sweyn I of Denmark

* Sweyn I of Denmark, king of Denmark, Norway, and England

* Sweyn I of Denmark

* Sweyn I of Denmark recovers his throne.

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

* Sweyn I of Denmark destroys Norwich.

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

Towards the end of July 1013, the Dane Sweyn Forkbeard, together with his son Canute, arrived in Gainsborough with an army of conquest.

To complicate the matter, Heimskringla and other Sagas also have Sweyn marrying Eric's widow, but she is distinctly another person in these texts, by name of Sigrid the Haughty, whom Sweyn only marries after Gunhild, the Slavic princess who bore Cnut, has died.

One of the legacies of King Sweyn was a fundamental change in Danish society which had been based on whether a person was free or a bondsman.

He fulfilled his promise by sailing to Zealand where he sent the message to Sweyn Forkbeard that he had important tidings, but had fallen ill and could not come in person to bring them to him.