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Birth:          ABT  948 Denmark
Death:          3 Feb 1013 Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I02217
d 3 Feb 1013/4
The following article from Encyclopaedia Britannica does not emphasize the fact, as 
the same encycopedia has when listing the "Sovereigns of Great Britain" that Sweyn 
or Svend was King of England from 1013-1014.


Sweyn I, byname SWEYN FORKBEARD, Danish SVEND TVESKAEG, Norwegian 
SVEIN TJUGESKJEGG, or TVISKJEGG (d. 3 Feb 1014, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, 
England), king of Denmark (c 987-1014), a leading Viking warrior and the father of 
Canute I the Great, king of Denmark and England. Sweyn formed an imposing Danish 
North Sea empire, establishing control in Norway in 1000 and conquering England in 
1013, shortly before his death.

The son of the Danish king Harald Bluetooth (Blatand), Sweyn rebelled in 987 against 
his father, who fled to Wendland (in Germany). Sweyn began feuding with Olaf I after 
the latter's accession to the Norwegian throne in 995, and he allied with the Swedish 
king Olaf Skotkonung and the the Norwegian Erik, the earl of Lade. The three allies 
defeated Olaf I in the Battle of Svolder about 1000, with Sweyn becoming virtual ruler 
of Norway, although nominally sharing sovereignty with his allies. Sweyn then turned 
again to England, leading apparently punitive expeditions in 1003 and 1004 in 
retaliation for the St Brice's Day massacre of Danes in England on 3 Nov 1002.

Sweyn did not again return to England until 1013, when he led a highly successful 
campaign and was accepted as king throughout the country, forcing Ethelred II into 
exile; but he died less than a year later. Although Norway returned (1014-16) to 
Norwegian rule under the leadership of Olaf II Haraldsson, Sweyn's Anglo-Danish 
empire continued under his son and grandson until 1042. [Encyclopaedia Britannica]

Note: The above text gives Sweyn's father as Harald "Bluetooth" (c 910 - 987), while 
the chart for the Ancestry of the British Royal House (United Kingdom) clearly shows 
Sweyn's father as Harald II King of Norway (living c 935 - c 970), son of Erik I 
Bloodaxe (d. 954). Clearly one or the other (probably the chart) is in error.

Parents
____ Harold III "Blaatand" ("Blue Tooth") (ABT  910 - 1 Nov  988)
____ Som-Asa (ABT  930 - )

Siblings
____ Sven (Sweyn) ("Forkbeard") (ABT  948 - 3 Feb 1013)

Marriage To OF POLAND Gunnhild (ABT  968 - 1014)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Mieszsko I (ABT  922 - 25 May  992)
____ Daubravka (ABT  931 -  977)

Children by OF POLAND Gunnhild ABT  968 - 1014
SVENSDOTTIR Estrid (ABT  997 - )

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