Having invaded England in 1013 with his father, Sweyn, king of Denmark, he was acclaimed king on Sweyn's death in 1014 by his Viking army. Canute defeated Edmund (II) Ironside at Assandun, Essex, in ...

Succeeded by: by Canute son of Sweyn who claimed the throne by conquest King of England in 1016, the son of Aethelred II 'the Unready' . He led the resistance to Canute's invasion in 1015, and on ...

Gytha was the sister of Ulf, a Danish earl who was King Canute's brother-in-law. Godwin was the son of Wulfnoth Cild, thegn of Sussex, a direct male line descendant of King Alfred the Great's elder ...

King Canute can command the tides to recede all he likes, but the rising tide pays no attention to his royal wishes. But the perhaps apocryphal story of the actual ancient English king ...

Edward's crown...is much heavier and taller. So there's always that feeling slightly anxious in case it wobbles," the King told the ladies per People, explaining the difference between the 5-pound St.

An American map showing the rapid increase in average winter temperatures across the United States published last week showed us by doing the numbers what we gardeners know in our bones: It’s ...

The King joked about “feeling slightly anxious” about the weight of the crown and it wobbling, as he spoke to women who attended his mother’s coronation in a new documentary. The film ...

A king, or a president, can have no effect on global warming and other examples of climate change by commanding the atmosphere and the oceans to stop heating up. The laws of chemistry, and of ...