Cnute Swainson
Also known as: Cnute · Family: Danes · Role: captain · First appears: A.D. 1074–1082
Life events
- 1075 · Cnute Swainson and Hacco's Danish fleet broke into St. Peter's minster at York and took treasure.(A.D. 1074–1082 · 📍 York)
- With: Hacco
- “They went rather to York, and broke into St. Peter's minster, and took therein much treasure, and so went away.”
A.D. 1074–1082
- with Hacco (They are identified as captains in the same fleet; mere co-presence does not establish an alliance.) “Soon after that came east from Denmark two hundred ships; wherein were two captains, Cnute Swainson, and Earl Hacco; but they durst not maintain a fight with King William.”
A.D. 1083–1086
- parent: Sweyne, King of Denmark (d. 1076) “that Cnute, King of Denmark, son of King Sweyne, was coming hitherward”
A.D. 1117–1122
- child: Charles (earl of Flanders) “And after him succeeded to the earldom Charles, the son of his uncle by the father's side, who was son of Cnute, the holy King of Denmark.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Made with Rho MD.