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Danish attacks on Norman England

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158: 357: 461:, together with those earls who remained loyal, were able to smother the rebellion without much difficulty. A Danish fleet of 200 ships under the command of Sweyn's son Cnut and a certain Earl Hakon sailed to Norfolk, but arrived to find they were too late to help the earls. The fleet then turned north, pillaging the lands on the Lincolnshire coast and sacking York, before turning south again and making for 227: 518:, claimed that William's wide-ranging precautions extended even to ordering that Englishmen dress, shave and arm themselves in a French manner, "in order to delude the eyes of the invaders". However, on the other side of the North Sea Cnut's attention was increasingly turning to other problems, such as dealing with his rebellious brother 192:; he could not rule his Danish kingdom in peace until 1064. So far as is known there were no supporters for his claim to the English crown when Edward the Confessor died childless in January 1066, and he may not have taken any steps to intervene during the resulting succession crisis. A 13th-century source, 489:, consisted of 1000 ships from Denmark, 600 from Flanders, and 60 from Norway, dwarfing both the 1069 and 1075 fleets; on the other side, William had no serious navy to oppose it, and could not have prevented it from landing. Instead, he brought over large numbers of mercenaries from 530:, thereby decisively ending the threat of a Danish invasion, probably the last such threat England was ever to face. Arguably, this crisis had important results in motivating William to strengthen his ties with his more prominent subjects by exacting from them an 218:. In 1067, after William's coronation but before he had gained effective control of the whole country, English leaders appealed to Sweyn to intervene, and though he made no move he was certainly considered a dangerous threat by the Norman regime. 149:), and maintained by later Danish kings until as late as the 13th century, but neither of the two realised attacks succeeded in making Sweyn's claim good, or indeed gained anything for the Danes apart from a certain amount of plunder. 184:, given a promise that he would succeed to the English throne after Edward's death. For many years he was distracted from English concerns by a series of wars in Denmark, where he disputed the throne with first 509:
claims that "the king gave orders for the coastal districts to be laid waste, so that if his enemies landed they would find nothing which could be quickly seized", but little evidence for this can be found in
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of a portion of the Danish army, forced a crossing of the River Aire and by Christmas had reoccupied York. After Christmas he proceeded to lay the northern counties waste in a brutal campaign known as the
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when he learned of the Danish fleet's landing, but he marched north. On learning of this the Danes abandoned the city, either to retreat to their ships or to establish a line of defence along the Humber,
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In August 1069 Sweyn finally launched an invasion fleet whose strength was variously estimated at 240 or 300 ships. The army it carried had been recruited not just in Denmark but reportedly in Norway,
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to raise a rebellion against the king. Each returned to his own earldom, and messengers were sent to Denmark asking for help. Hostilities broke out while William was in
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Sweyn's son Cnut, a leader in both the 1069 and 1075 attacks and now king of Denmark as Cnut IV, had by the beginning of 1085 brought about an alliance with both
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that "rumours abounded in England that the Danes were preparing to invade the kingdom". These fears were probably groundless. There is no other evidence that
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on the throne. They were disappointed in any such hopes, Sweyn's recent experiences not disposing him to launch another invasion on someone else's behalf.
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became king of England, but when Sweyn visited Edward shortly thereafter he was, according to his own rather implausible claim reported by the later writer
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and Norwegian vessels was gathered, but it never sailed. All three attacks were motivated by a claim on the English throne asserted originally by
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The claim to the English throne was not renounced, and was revived occasionally through the 12th century. A Flemish continuator of
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to Denmark seems to have secured a promise of neutrality in any Norman attempt on the English throne, though a contemporary writer,
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before the Danes finally accepted a bribe to leave the country. The second was a large-scale raid in 1075, intended to support the
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that included England, Denmark and Norway, and the first cousin of Harthacnut, king of England and Denmark. On Harthacnut's death
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coast and York were both ravaged. A third attack was planned in 1085, and a large invasion fleet comprising Danish,
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says that these nobles were accompanied by "all the people of the country", which suggests a general uprising in
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The various claims to the English throne in the mid-11th century, with kings of England named in bold
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and, effecting a successful landing there, were joined by various English leaders, including
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came to meet them, thinking that they were sure to conquer the whole land"; among these was
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asserted it by launching an attack on England's borders in 1138, before being defeated by
412: 270: 189: 185: 49: 1310:. The Oxford History of England, 3 (2nd ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 271. 1924: 605:, mentioned the continuing existence of the Danish claim, and in 1193 the French king, 332: 294: 181: 206:, sought military help from Sweyn, but without success. A diplomatic mission sent by 2086: 2052: 1888: 1838: 1628: 1604: 622: 511: 430: 639:'s weakness in the face of foreign threats rather than on any concrete Danish plan. 273:, Poland and even Lithuania, and was commanded not by Sweyn himself but by his sons 1960: 1344:
The History of the Norman Conquest of England, Its Causes and Its Results. Volume 5
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invaded England in that year, or to Danish soldiers attached to that army, and
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In the spring of 1070 Sweyn Estridson himself joined the fleet, sailed it to
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It is believed that some time thereafter he was visited by his cousins
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simply denied the existence of any such Danish attack. The historian
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treated it as a confused reference to the Scottish army with which
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made over the casting of a skull taken at the opening of his grave
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and his brother Asbjørn. Following the coast of the
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Index

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Norman Conquest
Fulford
Stamford Bridge
Hastings
Southwark
Exeter
Harrying of the North
Danish attacks
Revolt of the Earls
York
Ely
Revolt of the Earls
Lincolnshire
Flemish
Cnut the Great
Sweyn II

Sweyn Estridson
Cnut
an empire
Edward the Confessor
Adam of Bremen
Magnus the Good
Harald Hardrada
Heimskringla
Tostig
Harold Godwinson

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