Thy bleeding corse, requiring at his hand, Th' indignant King assented with a frown, And placed the traitor's head high o'er the regal town. So the Amalekite, who Saul had slain, DANISH DANISH SOVEREIGNS. SUMMARY OF THE REIGN OF CANUTE THE GREAT. Crowned sole Monarch, 1017. Married, first to Alfwena, daughter of an Earl of Hampshire, by whom he had issue, Sweyn and Harold, afterwards Kings of Sweden and England: secondly to Emma, of Normandy, widow of Ethelred II. by whom he had Hardicanute, (King of Denmark and afterwards of England,) and Gunilda; the latter married Prince Henry, eldest son of Conrad, Emperor of Germany. Reigned 18 years. Died 1036. Buried at Winchester. PRINCIPAL EVENTS. A war with the Danes of two hundred years duration ended by Canute's accession. Scotland rendered tributary. The Church and Town of St. Edmundsbury, built in honour of Edmund, King of East Anglia, who had been killed by the Danes. Ashdon Priory, and St. Bennet's, Norfolk, founded by the King. EMINENT PERSONS. Elnothus, Archbishop of Canterbury. Edmond and Edward, sons of the late King Edmond, who were sent, with intent to have them murdered, to the King of Sweden, that Monarch, however, permitted them to retire to Hungary. COTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS. Popes. Benedict VIII. 1012. John XVIII. 1024. Benedict IX. 1033. Emperors. Of the East.--Basil II. 975, Constantine X. 1025. Romanus III. 1028. Michael IV. 1034. Of the West.-Henry II. 1002. Conrad II. 1024. Kings. Of France-Robert II. 997. Henry I. 1031. Of Scotland.-Malcolm II. 1014. CANUTE "When Canute the King was passing by ; WRITTEN BY CANUTE.-Vide STURT. EDMUND by EDRIC thus unjustly slain, The Sons of EDMUND most unjustly sent * The story of Canute's reproof of his flatterers, is too generally known to need insertion here, CANUTE Canute in four the British state divides, And needless homage to the Pontiff makes. Gave to the useful arts protection meet; Some wholsome laws the British Monarch made, Encouraged genius, and assisted trade. It has been said, that, "Like AUGUSTUS, he "Shou'd never have been born." We also see In the same sentence it has been replied, That, "being born, he never shou'd have Unjustly tho' the English crown he gain'd, A Sovereign respected, and beloved. * A. D. 1036. A tribute levied by the Danish invaders on the English, in arrear for several preceding reigns, and called Danegelt. + Vide the reign of Ethelred the Second, page 105. SUMMARY OF THE REIGN OF HAROLD, SURNAMED HAREFOOT. Began to reign, A. D. 1036. Reigned three years. Died without issue, 1039, at Oxford; was buried at Westmin ster. PRINCIPAL Events. Prince Alfred, son of Etheldred II. invited to England by the King, and murdered, as it is supposed, by Earl Godwin. EMINENT PERSONS. Godwin, Earl of Kent, whose estates being afterwards swallowed by inundations of the sea, are now denominated the Goodwin Sands. Elnothus, Archbishop of Canterbury. COTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS. Pope. Benedict IX. 1033, Emperors. Of the East-Michael IV. 1034. Of the West.-Conrad II. 1024. Kings. Of France.-Henry I. 1031. Of Scotland.-Malcolm II. 1014. Duncan I. 1034. VOL. I. H HAROLD |