SweyntheCrusader (Danish: Svend Korsfarer); c. 1050 – 1097 at Philomelium (modern-day Akşehir, Turkey) was a Danish crusader. Sweyn was born in Denmark...
Sweyn Estridsson Ulfsson (Old Norse: Sveinn Ástríðarson, Danish: Svend Estridsen; c. 1019 – 28 April 1076) was King of Denmark (being Sweyn II) from 1047...
was a French crusader. Florine was the daughter of Duke Odo I of Burgundy and Sybilla of Burgundy. Supposedly, she married SweyntheCrusader. According...
Anglo-Saxon king of England SweyntheCrusader (c. 1050-1097), Danish participant in the First Crusade, son of Sweyn II of Denmark Sweyn Asleifsson (c. 1115–1171)...
Battle of Gvozd Mountain) SweyntheCrusader, Danish nobleman and crusader Abels, Richard Philip; Bernard S. Bachrach (2001). The Normans and their adversaries...
husband Sweyn in the First Crusade. Humberge of Le Puiset traveled with her husband Walo II of Chaumont-en-Vexin. Humberge was the sister of theCrusader Everard...
(1016–1035), son of Cnut the Great. Sweyn II of Denmark (1019–1074/76), King of Denmark SweyntheCrusader (1050–1097), son of Sweyn II Svend Tronkræver (d...
of Hebron. The Danish Army of SweyntheCrusader. Sweyn and his wife Florine of Burgundy fielded an estimated 1500 Danish knights in the siege of Jerusalem...
Sweyn III Grathe (Danish: Svend III Grathe; c. 1125 – 23 October 1157) was the king of Denmark between 1146 and 1157, in shifting alliances with Canute...
The Danish royal family traces its descent from the 10th century to the present monarch, King Frederik X. Note: This chart also includes the kings from...
Demmin. The forces attacking Dobin included those of the Danes Canute V and Sweyn III, Archbishop Adalbert II of Bremen, and Duke Henry the Lion of Saxony...
the 11th century in Denmark. Sweyn Forkbeard, 986–1014 Harald II of Denmark, 1014–c. 1018 Cnut the Great, 1018–1035 Harthacnut, 1035–1042 Magnus the Good...
II, king of Croatia (see Battle of Gvozd Mountain) SweyntheCrusader, Danish nobleman and crusader 1098 January 3 – Walkelin, Norman bishop of Winchester...
sagas also have Sweyn marrying Eric's widow, but she is distinctly another person in these texts, named Sigrid the Haughty, whom Sweyn only marries after...
A Tale of the First Crusaders (1855). A historical novel of French Crusader Florine of Burgundy (1083–1097), the wife of SweyntheCrusader. Thomas Wright...
Roskilde in August 1157. Sweyn was defeated by Valdemar in the Battle of Grathe Heath (Slaget på Grathe Hede) on 23 October 1157. Sweyn was killed during flight...
king of Denmark), the pretender Sweyn II of Denmark, raiding the Danish coast. Magnus, unwilling to fight his uncle, agreed to share the kingship with Harald...
Sweyn III on Zealand for complete control over Denmark. In 1147, Canute and Sweyn united to undertake the Wendish Crusade, which however ended in the...
for the Danish forces, after which the rest of Rügen surrendered. During the Danish civil war, the King Sweyn III was said to have allied with the pagan...
the 12th century, the Norwegian king Sigurd theCrusader undertook a crusade against Småland, the south-eastern part of the Swedish kingdom, in the early...
nominally as earls under Sweyn. Eric is generally held as the de facto ruler of Norway from 1000 to 1015, together with his brother Sweyn, a lesser known figure...
also known as Eric the Good (Danish: Erik Ejegod), was King of Denmark following his brother Olaf I Hunger in 1095. He was a son of Sweyn II. His mother's...
apparent. At the end of the same year, England was conquered by Sweyn Forkbeard, who died shortly thereafter. Æthelred was able to reclaim the throne, despite...
Sweyn Forkbeard. His stay in Normandy (until 1016) influenced him and his sons by Emma, who stayed in Normandy after Cnut the Great's conquest of the...
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