ALPHA Timepoint is in alpha Talk to Us
Sign In Get Started
D

Death of Cnut the Great

Cnut the Great, the powerful ruler of the North Sea Empire, lies dying in Shaftesbury Abbey. His court, including his son Harthacnut and Earl Godwin, surrounds him, each silently calculating the political landscape in the absence of clear succession plans.

Year 1035
Date 11/12
Location Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset, England
Layer 2
Visibility HIDDEN
tax:politics-governance-and-law tax:law-and-justice

Key Figures

Cnut the Great Harthacnut Earl Godwin Abbot of Shaftesbury Royal Physician
Time Travel

Causal neighbors · 548 linked moments

D
Death of King Aldfrith of Northumbria
705 · same figure
D
Death of Edward the Confessor
1066 · same figure
D
Death of Alfred the Great
899 · same figure
D
Death of King Æthelstan
939 · same figure
D
Death of King Æthelstan
939 · same figure
D
Death of Charles VII
1461 · same figure
D
Death of Edward IV
1483 · same figure
D
Death of King Oswiu
670 · same figure
D
Death of King Aldfrith of Northumbria
705 · same figure
D
Death of Elizabeth I
1603 · same figure
D
Death of King Oswiu
670 · same figure
B
Battle of Assandun
1016 · same figure
M
Marriage of Cnut the Great to Emma of Normandy
1017 · same figure
D
Death of Lothair II
869 · same figure
B
Battle of Assandun
1016 · same figure
D
Death of Æthelred the Unready
1016 · same figure
C
Coronation of Cnut the Great
1017 · same figure
D
Death of King Æthelstan
939 · same figure
D
Death of Alexander the Great
323 BC · same figure
D
Death of Cnut the Great
1035 · same figure
M
Marriage of Cnut and Emma of Normandy
1017 · same figure
D
Death of Cnut the Great
1035 · same figure
D
Death of Cnut the Great
1035 · contemporaneous
D
Death of Cnut the Great
1035 · contemporaneous
D
Death of Cnut the Great
1035 · contemporaneous
D
Death of King Cnut the Great
1035 · contemporaneous
D
Death of Cnut the Great
1035 · contemporaneous
D
Death of Cnut the Great
1035 · contemporaneous
D
Death of Cnut the Great
1035 · contemporaneous
D
Death of Cnut the Great
1035 · contemporaneous
D
Death of Cnut the Great
1035 · same location
D
Death of Cnut the Great
1035 · same location
D
Death of Cnut the Great
1035 · same location
B
Battle of Assandun
1016 · same figure
B
Battle of Assandun
1016 · same figure
D
Death of King Athelstan
939 · same figure