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== Death and succession == [[File:Knut der Große cropped.jpg|thumb|14th-century portrait of Cnut the Great]] Cnut died on 12 November 1035 in [[Shaftesbury]], [[Dorset]].<ref name="weir" /> In Denmark, he was succeeded by [[Harthacnut]], reigning as Cnut III, although with a war in Scandinavia against [[Magnus I of Norway]], Harthacnut was "forsaken [by the English] because he was too long in Denmark".<ref name="asc">The ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]''</ref> His mother [[Emma of Normandy|Queen Emma]], previously resident at Winchester with some of her son's [[housecarl]]s, was made to flee to [[Bruges]] in [[Flanders]], under pressure from supporters of Cnut's other son, after Svein, by [[Ælfgifu of Northampton]]: [[Harold Harefoot]] – [[regent]] in England 1035–37 (who went on to claim the English throne in 1037, reigning until his death in 1040). Eventual peace in Scandinavia left Harthacnut free to claim the throne himself in 1040 and to regain for his mother her place.{{Citation needed|date=January 2013}} He brought the crowns of Denmark and England together again until his death in 1042. Denmark fell into a period of disorder with a power struggle between the pretender to the throne [[Sweyn Estridsson]], son of Ulf, and the Norwegian king, until the death of Magnus in 1047.{{Citation needed|date=January 2013}} If the sons of Cnut had not died within a decade of his death, and if his only known daughter [[Gunhilda of Denmark|Gunhilda]], who was to marry Conrad II's son [[Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry III]] eight months after his death, had not died in [[Italy]] before she could become empress consort,{{sfn|Lawson|2004|pp=98, 104–105}} Cnut's reign might well have been the foundation for a complete political union between England and Scandinavia, a [[North Sea Empire]] with blood ties to the Holy Roman Empire.{{sfn|Lawson|2004|p=195}} === Bones at Winchester === Cnut was buried in the [[Old Minster, Winchester]].<ref name="weir" /> Following the events of 1066, the new Norman regime was keen to signal its authority with an ambitious programme of grandiose [[cathedral]]s and [[castle]]s, which proceeded throughout the [[High Middle Ages]]. [[Winchester Cathedral]] was built on the old [[Anglo-Saxon]] site and the previous burials, including Cnut's, were set in mortuary chests there.<ref name="weir" /> During the [[English Civil War]] in the 17th century, plundering [[Roundhead]] soldiers scattered the bones of Cnut on the floor and they were spread amongst the various other chests, notably those of [[William Rufus]]. After the [[Stuart Restoration|restoration of the monarchy]], the bones were collected and replaced in their chests, although somewhat out of order.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.astoft.co.uk/Dscn0764-405.jpg |title=Photo of a sign posted in Winchester Cathedral marking Cnut's mortuary chest, posted at the astoft.co.uk web site, retrieved 2009-07-25 |access-date=12 June 2009 |archive-date=21 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621023839/http://www.astoft.co.uk/Dscn0764-405.jpg |url-status=live}}</ref>
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