The Genealogy of Sweyn Forkbeard and Cnut

 

The family tree showing the relationship of Sweyn Foprkbeard and Cnut to the Godwinsons and Edward the Confessor

 

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The Farndale Story

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The story of one family’s journey through two thousand years of British History

The Farndale Lineages

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The 83 family lines into which the family is divided. Meet the whole family and how the wider family is related

The Farndale Directory

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Members of the historical family ordered by date of birth

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Harald Blutetooth (or Knut Danaást)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweyn Forkbeard

 

Died 3 February 1014

 

Married Świętosława; Sigrid; Gunhild

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harald II of Denmark

 

c 996 to c 1018

Cnut

 

C 990 to 12 November 1035

 

King of England, 1016 to 1035

King of Denmark, 1018 to 1035

King of Norway, 1028 to 1035

 

Married Ælfgifu of Northampton and

Emma of Normandy

 

Estrid Svendsdatter

 

Married Ulf Jarl, son of Thorgils Sprakelegg, and brother of Gytha Thorkelsdóttir who later married Godwin of Wessex

Gytha

 

Gunnhild

 

Santslaue

 

Thyra

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With Ælfgifu

 

Svein Knutsson

 

c 1016 to 1035

 

King of Norway 1030 to 1035

 

With Ælfgifu

 

Harold Harefoot

 

Died 17 March 1040

 

King of England 1037 to 1040

 

 

With Emma of Normandy

 

Harthacnut

 

c 1018 to 8 June 1042

 

King of Denmark 1035 to 1042

 

King of England 1040 to 1042

With Emma of Normandy

 

Gunhilda

 

Queen of the Germans

 

C 1020 to 18 July 1038

 

Married Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor

Surviving steps sons of Æthelred and Emma of Normandy

 

Edward later the Confessor

 

c 1003 to 5 January 1066

 

 

Alfred Ætheling

 

c 1012 to 1036

 

 

 

 

Surviving step daughter of Æthelred and Emma of Normandy

 

Godgifu

 

c 1004 to c 1049 or 1056

 

Countess of the Vexin and Boulogne

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beatrice of Franconia

 

Abbess of Quedlinburg

 

1037 to 13 July 1061