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(below).
    4   Santslaue
    Alternatively called Svantoslava, she was born and died in Denmark. No dates are recorded.
    5   Thyra
    She is said to have been born in c .993 in Denmark – probably the eldest child of Sweyn and Gunhilda, although this is open to doubt. She married Godwine, later Earl of Wessex ( see here , under Harold II), and had issue, but no details of them are recorded. She died in 1018.
    6   Daughter
    Her name is not known. She married Wytgeorn, King of Wendland, and had issue:
    1  Gunhilda; she married firstly Haakon, Earl of Worcester ( d .1029/30) (above), and secondly, Harold ( d .1042), son of Edith, the daughter of Ethelred II.
    Sweyn married secondly , probably before 1000 (although no record exists as to where):
    Sigrid
    Alternatively known as Sigrith or Syritha, and called ‘the Haughty’,she was the daughter of Skogul Toste of Sweden, and was born in Sweden. She married firstly Eric VI, King of Sweden ( d .995), and had issue:
    1  Olaf Svenski, King of Sweden ( d .1022), who married a lady called Astrid, and had issue.
    One source gives the date of Sigrid’s death as 995, but this is impossible. It is likely that she died before 1013, as she has never been referred to as Queen of England.
    Issue of marriage:
    1   Astrid
    Alternatively called Estrith, or Margaret. She married either Richard II, Duke of Normandy ( d .1027), or Robert II, Duke of Normandy ( see here , under William I), between 1017 and 1027. If her husband was Robert, then he repudiated her shortly after the marriage took place. She married secondly Ulf Thorgilson, a Danish Earl in England ( d .1035; he was the brother of Gytha, mother of Harold II), and had issue:
    1  Sweyn Estrithson, King of Denmark ( d .1074/6), who married a lady called Gunhilda. He left illegitimate issue only.
    2  Beorn, Earl of Danish Mercia. He was murdered in 1049.
    3  Osbeorn ( d .1086?).
    Sigrid may also have been the mother of Sweyn’s four other daughters (above).
    KING SWEYN
    He died on 3 February, 1014, at Gainsborough, Lincs., and was buried in England (location unknown). His remains were later moved to Roeskild Cathedral, Denmark.
    He was succeeded by Ethelred II (preceding chapter), who was in turn succeeded by Edmund, the son of Ethelred.

    Edmund II
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    F ATHER : Ethelred II ( see here ).
    M OTHER : Elgiva ( see here , under Ethelred II ).
    S IBLINGS : ( see here , under Ethelred II ).
    EDMUND II
    Known as ‘Ironside’, he was born between c. 988 and 993. He succeeded his father as King of England on 23 April, 1016, and was crowned during the same month at Old St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
    Edmund II married , in late summer (August?), 1015, at Malmesbury, Wiltshire:
    Edith
    Her origins are unknown. She married firstly Sigeferth (son of Earngrim), a Thane in East Anglia (he was murdered in 1015). The date of her death is not known.
    Issue of marriage (who may have been twins):
    1   Edward
    He was born in 1016: he was aged 41 at his death. He was styled ‘Atheling’, but spent the greater part of his youth in exile in Hungary. He died in 1057, in London, where he was buried in Old St Paul’s Cathedral.
    Edward married (no record exists of the date), in Hungary:
    Agatha
    She was probably the daughter of Bruno, Bishop of Augsburg, and brother of Henry III, Emperor of Germany. With less probability, she was the daughter of Stephen, King of Hungary, by Gisela, daughter of Conrad II, Emperor of Germany, and sister of the Emperor Henry III. She is described as ‘a kinswoman’ of the Emperor Henry III. Upon reaching old age, she became a nun at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, probably after the death of her daughter, Queen Margaret of Scotland, in 1093.
    Issue of marriage:
     (i)    Edgar
    He was born in c. 1053 (certainly by 1058) in Hungary, and was styled ‘Atheling’. In October, 1066, the Witan in London elected him King of England upon hearing of the death of Harold II at Hastings. He was not crowned, and by December,