Issue
Not more than a year before his death, Canute married Helena of Sweden, but they had no children. Canute fathered a number of children out of wedlock:
- Saint Niels of Aarhus (died 1180); he lived as monk
- Knud
- Valdemar; he was Bishop of Schleswig and Prince-Archbishop of Bremen
- Brigitte (or Jutta); she married Bernhard, Count of Anhalt
- Hildegard; she married Jaromar I, Prince of Rugia
- Ingerd; she married Casimir II, Duke of Pomerania
- Another daughter; she married Bogislaw III of Schlawe
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