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1066: Sailing Into the Storm

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Emma of Normandy and Canute of England - Why Would Cnute Want to Marry Her?

Emma of normandy and canute were then married in ten 17. Canute also had a previous anglo saxon wife from england, whom he likewise threw over in favor of this more advantageous marriage to emma. So as knute kills off his rivals, including many members of this wessex dynasty, he spared edward and alfred and basically allowed them to live safely, for the time being, in normandy.

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