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Also Known As Svein Tjugeskjegg • Sweyn Forkbeard • Svend Tveskaeg
Died February 3, 1014 • Gainsborough • England
Title / Office king (987-1014), Denmark • king (1013-1014), England
Notable Family Members father Harald I • son Canute I

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Sweyn I, coin, 10th century; in the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen.
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Canute
Canute (I)
king of England, Denmark, and Norway
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
Harald III Sigurdsson
king of Norway
Anton Frederik Tscherning
Danish politician
Hardecanute
Hardecanute
king of Denmark and England
Alfred the Great
Alfred
king of Wessex
Vidkun Quisling
Vidkun Quisling
Norwegian politician
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
prime minister of Denmark
King Frederik of Denmark
Frederik X
king of Denmark
Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.
Johannes Ewald
Danish poet
Margrethe II
Margrethe II
queen of Denmark
Christian II
Christian II
Scandinavian king
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

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