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Also Known As	Knut den Mektige • Canute II • Knud den Store • Canute the Great • Knut den Store
Died	November 12, 1035
Title / Office	king (1028-1035), Norway • king (1019-1035), Denmark • king (1016-1035), England
Notable Family Members	father Sweyn I • son Hardecanute • son Harold I

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Sweyn I, coin, 10th century; in the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen.

Sweyn I

king of Denmark and England

Margaret I

Margaret I

queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

John of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden; detail from a plaster cast of his tombstone, original sculpture by Claus Berg, c. 1513; in the Cathedral of St. Canute, Odense, Den.

John

king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

Frederick I

Frederick I

king of Denmark and Norway

Hannibal Sehested

Hannibal Sehested

Danish statesman

Erik VII

king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

Magnus I Olafsson

king of Norway and Denmark

Christopher III

king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

Valdemar IV Atterdag

Valdemar IV Atterdag

king of Denmark

Valdemar II, coin, 13th century; in the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen

Valdemar II

king of Denmark

Canute VI

Canute VI

king of Denmark

Haakon IV Haakonsson

king of Norway

Harald III Sigurdsson

king of Norway

Erik VI

king of Denmark

Christian Günther, count von Bernstorff

Danish diplomat

Hardecanute

Hardecanute

king of Denmark and England

Carl Christian Hall, detail of an oil painting by J.V. Gertner, 1864; in Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark

Carl Christian Hall

Danish politician

J.H.E., count von Bernstorff

Danish statesman

Peter Rochegune Munch

Danish politician

Alfred the Great

Alfred

king of Wessex

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