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CANUTE VI . (1163–1202), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Denmark, eldest son of Valdemar I., was crowned in his seventh See also:year (1170), as his See also:father's co-See also:regent, so as to secure the See also:succession. In 1182 he succeeded to the See also:throne. During his twenty years' reign Den-See also:mark advanced steadily along the path of greatness and prosperity marked out for her by Valdemar I., consolidating and extending her dominion over the See also:North Baltic See also:coast and adopting a more and more See also:independent attitude towards See also:Germany. The See also:emperor See also:Frederick I.'s claim of overlordship was haughtily rejected at the very outset, and his See also:attempt to stir up See also:Duke Bogislav of See also:Pomerania against Denmark's See also:vassal, Jaromir of See also:Rugen, was defeated by See also:Archbishop See also:Absalon, who destroyed 465 of Bogislav's 500 See also:ships in a See also:naval See also:action off Strela (See also:Stralsund) in 1184. In the following year Bogislav did See also:homage to Canute on the See also:deck of his See also:long-See also:ship, off Jomsborg in Pomerania, Canute
henceforth styling himself king of the Danes and See also:Wends. This victory led two years later to the voluntary submission of the two Abodrite princes Niklot and Borwin to the Danish See also:crown, where-upon the bulk of the Abodrite dominions, which extended from the See also:Trave to the Warnow, including See also:modern See also:Mecklenburg, were divided between them. The concluding years of Canute's reign were peaceful, as became a See also:prince who, though by no means a See also:coward, was not of an overwhelmingly See also:martial temperament. In 1197, however, See also:German See also:jealousy of Denmark's ambitions, especially when Canute led a See also:fleet against the pirates of See also:Esthonia, induced See also:Otto, See also:margrave of See also:Brandenburg, to invade Pomerania, while in the following year Otto, in See also:conjunction with Duke Adolf of See also:Holstein, wasted the dominions of the Danophil Abodrites. The See also:war continued intermittently till 1201, when Duke Valdemar, Canute's younger See also:brother, conquered the whole of Holstein, and Duke Adolf was subsequently captured at See also:Hamburg and sent in chains to Denmark. North Albingia, as the See also:district between the See also:Eider and the See also:Elbe was then called, now became Danish territory. Canute died on the 12th of See also:November 1202. Undoubtedly he owed the triumphs of his reign very largely to the statesmanship of Absalon and the valour of Valdemar. But he was certainly a prudent and circumspect ruler of blameless See also:life, possessing, as See also:Arnold of See also:Lubeck (c. 116o–1212) expresses it, " the sober See also:wisdom of old See also:age even in his See also:tender youth."
See Danmarks Riges Historie. Oldtiden og den aeldre Middelalder (See also:Copenhagen, 1897-1905), pp. 721-735. (R. N.
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