Person:Emma of Normandy (1)

Emma of Normandy
m. 5 Apr 1002
  1. Edward "the Confessor" _____Bet 1002 & 1005 - 1066
  2. Goda of EnglandAbt 1004 - Bef 1049
  3. Alfred Aetheling _____Aft 1005 - 1036
m. Jul 1017
  1. Harthacnut _____1018 - 1042
  2. Gunhilda of DenmarkAbt 1020 - 1038
Facts and Events
Name Emma of Normandy
Gender Female
Birth? Abt 982 Normandie, FranceHouse of Normandy
Marriage 5 Apr 1002 Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, Englandto Æthelred II "the Unready" _____, de Wessex
Marriage Jul 1017 to Knud Svendsen "the Great" _____
Death[2] 14 Mar 1052 Winchester, Hampshire, England
Burial[2] Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England
Reference Number? Q40061?
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Emma of Normandy (referred to as Ælfgifu in royal documents; c. 984 – 6 March 1052) was a Norman-born noblewoman who became the English, Danish, and Norwegian queen through her marriages to the Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred the Unready and the Danish prince Cnut the Great. The daughter of the Norman ruler Richard the Fearless and Gunnor, she was Queen of the English during her marriage to King Æthelred from 1002 to 1016, except during a brief interruption in 1013–14 when the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard occupied the English throne. Æthelred died in 1016, and Emma remarried to Sweyn's son Cnut. As Cnut's wife, she was Queen of England[1] from their marriage in 1017, Queen of Denmark from 1018, and Queen of Norway from 1028 until Cnut died in 1035.

After her husbands' deaths, Emma remained in the public eye and continued to participate actively in politics during the reigns of her sons by each husband, Edward the Confessor and Harthacnut. In 1035, when her second husband Cnut died and was succeeded by their son Harthacnut, who was in Denmark at the time, Emma was designated to act as his regent until his return, which she did in rivalry with Harold Harefoot. Emma is the central figure within the Encomium Emmae Reginae, a critical source for the history of early-11th-century English politics. As Catherine Karkov notes, Emma is one of the most visually represented early medieval queens.

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References
  1.   Emma of Normandy, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. 2.0 2.1 EMMA ([985]-Winchester 14 Mar 1052, bur Winchester Cathedral), in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.