Cnut The Great - Family Tree

Family Tree

Harald Bluetooth Mieszko Dubrawka William Sprota
Sweyn Gunhilda Gunnora Richard
Ælfgifu of Northampton Cnut Emma of Normandy Æthelred the Unready Ælfgifu, 1st wife Richard Judith
Sweyn Knutsson Harold Harefoot Gunhilda of Denmark Alfred Ætheling Edmund II Ealdgyth Robert Herleva
Gytha Thorkelsdóttir+ Godwin, Earl of Wessex Harthacnut Edward Agatha William "the Conqueror" Matilda
Sweyn Harold II Tostig Edith Edward the Confessor Edgar Ætheling Cristina
Gyrth, Gunnhilda, Ælfgifu, Leofwine & Wulfnoth Malcolm III Margaret
Other children Edith of Scotland Henry

+Said to have been a great-granddaughter of Cnut's grandfather Harald Bluetooth, but this was probably a fiction intended to give her a royal bloodline.


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