Welcome to Litsy!

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Cnut the Great, Jane Austen, William II of England, Egbert of Wessex, Harthacnut, Emma of Normandy, thelwulf of Wessex, Eadwig, Eadred, Godwin, Earl of Wessex, Henry Beaufort, Izaak Walton, Swithun, William of Wykeham, lfgifu, wife of Eadwig, Stephen Gardiner, William Waynflete, Samuel Wilberforce, Richard Foxe, Elizabeth Montagu, Henry of Blois, Cenwalh of Wessex, Cynegils of Wessex, Thomas Thetcher, Charles Sumner, Godfrey de Luci, Henry Woodlock. Excerpt: Cnut the Great (Old Norse: Kn tr inn r ki; c. 985 or 995 - 12 November 1035), also known as Canute, was a king of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden. Though after the death of his heirs within a decade of his own and the Norman conquest of England in 1066, his legacy was largely lost to history, Norman F. Cantor has made the paradoxical statement that he was "the most effective king in Anglo-Saxon history." Cnut was of Danish and Polish descent. His father was Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark (which gave Cnut the patronym Sweynsson). Cnut's mother was the daughter of Mieszko I, the first ruler of Poland; her name may have been wi tos awa (see: Sigrid Storr da), but the Oxford DNB article on Cnut states that her name is unknown. As a prince of Denmark, Cnut won the throne of England in 1016 in the wake of centuries of Viking activity in northwestern Europe. His accession to the Danish throne in 1018 brought the crowns of England and Denmark together. Cnut held this power-base together by uniting Danes and Englishmen under cultural bonds of wealth and custom, rather than sheer brutality. After a decade of conflict with opponents in Scandinavia, Cnut claimed the crown of Norway in Trondheim in 1028. The Swedish city Sigtuna was held by Cnut. He had coins struck which called him king there, but there is no narrative record of his occupation. The kingshi...