Chapter XXIII: Canute and His Sons

1016. Canute sole King 399

Edwy “King of the Ceorls” 399

Four great earls under Canute 401

Edric killed: Thurkill banished 401

1017. Canute marries Emma, widow of Ethelred 402

Numerous executions 402

Family of Leofwine 402

Godwine, son of Wulfnoth 403

1018. Danish troops dismissed 404

1023. Translation of the body of St. Alphege 405

Northumbrian and Scottish affairs 406

1018. Great Scottish victory at Carham: loss of the
Lothians 408

1031. Malcolm II. owns the supremacy of Canute 409

1026. Canute’s pilgrimage to Rome 410

Alliance with Emperor Conrad II. 413

1025. Canute’s unsuccessful campaign against St. Olaf,
King of Norway 415

Canute orders the murder of Jarl Ulf, his
brother-in-law 414

1028. St. Olaf defeated. Norway conquered 414

Relations with Normandy 415

1035. Death of Canute 416

England divided between his sons Harold Harefoot
and Harthacnut 417

1036. Unsuccessful expedition of the Etheling
Alfred 418

His murder, and cruel treatment of his followers 419

1037. Queen Emma banished to Flanders 420

Disputes between Harold and Archbishop Ethelnoth 420

1040. Death of Harold: accession of Harthacnut 421

Severe tax laid upon the people 421

1041. Edward, son of Ethelred, invited over from
Normandy 421

1042. Death of Harthacnut 422