The King of England, Edward

After he died in ten 35, there then was a succession dispute. And so knute marries emma as a way of trying to sort of shore up his claim as ruler of england. So the danish realm fell into civil war and dissension between these different claimants. In england, there were periods of war and also of very high taxe. When whenever one of these competing claimants gained a foothold, he would levy very high taxes to fund this continuing warfare. After seven years of this, the kingdom is now very exhausted and really fed up with this constant succession dispute. They invite ed a son of ethelred who had been living abroad in normandy. The main