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Wendland, a granddaughter of King Sweyn. Harold died in 1042.
    10   Elgiva
    She married Uhtred, Earl of Northumbria (who was killed in 1016 or 1018), and had issue:
    1  Edith ( see here , under Malcolm II, King of Scotland). She married Maldred of Scotland, Lord of Allerdale, and had issue.
    11   Wulfhilda
    She married Ulfcytel Snylling, Ealdorman of East Anglia (who was killed in 1016).
    12   Daughter
    Her name is not known. She married one Athelstan (who was killed in 1010).
    13   Daughter
    Her name is not known. She became Abbess of Wherwell, and died after 1051.
    Ethelred II married secondly , on 5 April, 1002, at Winchester Cathedral:
    Emma
    She was the daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normandy, by his wife Gunnora, and she was born in c. 985/7 in Normandy. In 1017, after the death of Ethelred II, she married secondly King Canute, and had issue ( see here , under King Canute). She died on 14 March, 1052, probably at Winchester, and was buried in Winchester Cathedral. Her bones now lie in one of the mortuary chests there.
    Issue of marriage:
    1   King Edward the Confessor ( see here ).
    2   Alfred
    Born before 1012, he was styled ‘Atheling’. He was brutally murdered on 5 February, 1037 (or, less probably, 1036), at Ely, Cambridgeshire, probably on the orders of Earl Godwine ( see here , under Harold II). He was buried in Ely Cathedral.
    3   Goda
    Alternatively known as Godgifu, she was born between 1004 and 1014. She married firstly Drogo (or Dreux), Count of Mantes and the Vexin ( d. 1035), and had issue:
    1  Ralph, Earl of Hereford ( d .1057), who married Gytha, perhaps the daughter of Osgood Clapa, and had issue.
    2  Walter III, Count of Mantes and the Vexin ( d. after 1063), who married Biota, daughter of Herbert, Count of Maine.
    3  Fulk, Bishop of Amiens (1030–1058).
    Goda married secondly Eustace II, Count of Boulogne ( d. 1093), in c .1036. It is possible that there was a child of this union, probably a daughter who married and had issue. The only evidence pointing to this is the fact that Eustace of Boulogne had a grandson who was given as hostage to William I in 1067.
    Goda was dead by 1049.
    ETHELRED II
    He died on 23 April, 1016, in London, and was buried in Old St Paul’s Cathedral, London. His tomb was lost in the Great Fire of 1666.
    He was succeeded by his son Edmund.

    King Sweyn
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    F ATHER : Harold Bluetooth, King of Denmark.
    M OTHER : Gunhilda, first wife of Harold, or Cyrid, his second wife, or Aesa, his concubine.
    S IBLINGS :
    Thyra
    She married Thorgils Sprakalegg, and had issue:
    1 Gytha, mother of Harold II ( see here ).
    KING SWEYN
    Known as ‘Forkbeard’, he was born in c .960 in Denmark. He succeeded his father as King of Denmark on 1 November, 986. He is said by some sources to have been deposed in 987 and restored in 1000. He usurped the throne of England in the autumn of 1013, having defeated and deposed Ethelred II; he claimed the throne by right of conquest, but had no dynastic claim to it. He was never crowned.
    Sweyn married firstly , in c. 990 (although no record exists as towhere):
    Gunhilda
    She was probably the daughter of Mjeczislas I, Duke of Poland, by Dubrawka, daughter of Boleslaw I, Duke of Bohemia, or, less probably, the daughter of Boleslaw, King of Wendland. Sweyn later divorced her, probably before 1000. She died in c. 1015. One source gives the date of her death as 992, but this must be wrong.
    Issue of marriage:
    1   Harold
    He was born in c. 994 in Denmark. He succeeded his father as King of Denmark on 3 February, 1014, and died in 1018/19.
    2   King Canute ( see here ).
    The following were possibly the children of Gunhilda, although they may have been the issue of Sweyn by his second wife (below):
    3   Gytha
    She married Erik Hakonson, a Danish Earl in England, and Earl of Hlathir in Norway in 1013, and had issue:
    1  Haakon, Earl of Worcester ( d. 1029/30), who married Gunhilda, daughter of Wytgeorn, King of Wendland