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Birth:          ABT 1043 Denmark
Death:          10 Jul 1086 St. Albans Church, Odense, Denmark
Cause of Death: assassinated

Notes
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Canute IV, byname CANUTE THE HOLY, OF SAINT CANUTE, Danish KNUT, or 
KNUD, DEN HELLIGE, or SANKT KNUT, or KNUD (b. c 1043 - d. 10 July 1086, 
Odense, Denmark; cannonized 1101; feast days January 19, July 10), martyr, patron 
saint, and king of Denmark from 1080 to 1086.

The son of King Sweyn II Estrithson of Denmark, Canute succeeded his brother Harold 
Hen as king of Denmark. Canute opposed the aristocracy and kept a close 
association with the church in an attempt to create a powerful and centralized 
monarchy.

In ecclisiastical matters, Canute generously patronized several churches, including the 
Cathedral of Lund, Denmark's archbishopric; established a Benedictine abbey at 
Odense; and supported apstolic preaching throughout Denmark. In temporal matters, 
he attempted an administrative reform, paricularly an enforcedlevying of tithes that 
incurred the wrath of the rural aristocracy. In 1085 he reasserted the Danish claims to 
England and, with the count of Flanders and King Olaf III of Norway, prepared a 
massive invasion fleet that alarmed the Norman-English king William I the Conqueror.

Canute's plan, however, had to be abandoned suddenly, for those aristocrats who 
opposed his tax policy revolted as he was preparing to embark for England. He fled 
from the rebels, led by his brother Prince Olaf, to St Alban's Church, Odense, which he 
had founded and was assassinated there with the entire royal party.

Canute was buried in St Alban's, renamed c 1300 St. Canute's Cathedral. Miracles 
were recorded at his tomb, and at the request (1099) of King Erik III Evergood of 
Denmark, he was cannonized (1101) by Pope Paschal II. [Encyclopaedia Britannica]

Parents
ULFSSON Svend (Sweyn) II (ABT 1020 - 28 Apr 1074)
TORBERGSDOTTIR Tora (ABT 1020 - AFT 1048)

Siblings
SVENDSSON Canute IV (ABT 1043 - 10 Jul 1086)

Marriage To OF FLANDERS Adela (ABT 1064 - 1115)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Robert (Robrecht) I "de Fries" ("the Frisian") (ABT 1033 - 3 Oct 1093)
OF SAXONY Gertrude (ABT 1028 - 4 Aug 1113)

Children by OF FLANDERS Adela ABT 1064 - 1115
KNUTSDOTTIR Ingegerd (Ingegard) (ABT 1083 - )

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