Monthly Archive: November 2025

Emma of Normandy: Twice the Wife of a Reigning King, Twice a Queen Mother

Emma of Normandy: birth late 980s/death March 6, 1052Spouses: Cnut (m. 1017 until his death in 1035) and Æthelred the Unready (m. 1002-1016)House: Father: Richard I (the Fearless) of Normandy/Mother: Danish-descended Gunnor Children: Edward the...

Kings & Queens of England: 1/8: The Saxons Get the Savagery Started is the first in a series of eight videos providing an overview of the lives and the interesting and scandalous stories of the Kings and Queens of England. This video covers the early Anglo Saxon kings and the conquering Viking kings of Denmark up to the Norman conquest of 1066. Kings included are Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, Æthelstan, Edmund I, Eadred, Eadwig, Edgar the Peaceful, Edward the Martyr, Æthelred the Unready, Sweyn Forkbeard, Edmund Ironside, Cnut, Harold Harefoot, Harthacnut, and Edward the Confessor.

Monthly Archive: November 2025

Emma of Normandy: Twice the Wife of a Reigning King, Twice a Queen Mother

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