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Cnut the Great
11th-century King of Denmark, Norway, and England
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 994
- Died
- 12 November 1035
- Conflict
- Battle of Assandun, Battle of Helgeå
- Place of birth
- Denmark
- Place of death
- Shaftesbury
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Knud
- Father
- Sweyn I of Denmark
- Mother
- Gunhild of Wenden
- Position held
- monarch of England, monarch of Denmark, Monarch of Norway
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Denmark, North Sea Empire
- Religion
- Christianity, Old Norse religion
- described by source
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5
- family
- House of Knýtlinga
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Latin
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Knūtr inn rīki
- noble title
- king
- place of burial
- Winchester Cathedral
- topic's main category
- Category:Cnut
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