11th-century King of Denmark, Norway, and England
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He commanded three kingdoms at once — England, Denmark, Norway — and held them by force, diplomacy, and the careful binding of wealth to loyalty. The North Sea became his empire's inner lake.
A Danish prince, Cnut took England's throne in 1016 after centuries of Viking raiding had primed the ground. Two years later he claimed Denmark, yoking the two crowns and spending the next decade crushing rivals across Scandinavia until Norway fell to him in 1028. Malcolm II of Scotland bent the knee in 1031, though that submission proved shallow. He leveraged England's dioceses and his claim on Denmark's to win concessions from the Church — reduced tolls for his people traveling to Rome, a better price on the pallium — and after beating Norway and Sweden in 1026, he returned from the Holy Rom…
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Merie sungen the muneches binnen ElyTha Cnut Ching rew there by: Roweth, cnihtes, noer the lant, And here we thes muneches saeng.
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