Emma the Twice-Crowned Queen.
Emma The Twice-Crowned Queen
Isabella Strachan
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Emma The Twice-Crowned Queen: England In The Viking Age Viking Age is the term denoting the years from about 800 to 1066 in Scandinavian History[1][2][3]. The vikings explored Europe by its oceans and rivers through trade and warfare. is the first full biography of Queen Emma Emma is the name of several wives of monarchs throughout history. They include: - Emma of Hawaii (1836-1885), Queen Consort of Kamehameha IV
- Emma of Normandy (c.988-1052), Queen Consort both to Ethelred the Unready of England and later Canute the Great
, mother of Edward the Confessor Edward the Confessor, d. 1066, king of the English (1042–66), son of Æthelred the Unready and his Norman wife, Emma. After the Danish conquest (1013–16) of England, Edward grew up at the Norman court, although his mother returned to England and and Hardecanute. The half-Danish sister of the Duke of Normandy and a descendant of Vikings, she would be Queen to two kings, Ethelred the Unready Noun 1. Ethelred the Unready - king of the English who succeeded to the throne after his half-brother Edward the Martyr was murdered; he struggled unsuccessfully against the invading Danes (969-1016)
Ethelred, Ethelred II (who needed to ally with the Normans against Viking raiders) and later, the Danish Canute. She was a noteworthy political figure of her day, and her writings indicate she was a Danish nationalist who wished to see England join with Viking Denmark. Yet her great-nephew William the Conqueror William the Conqueror: see William I, king of England. would be the one to drastically alter the future of England. Drawing from primary sources, the work of scholars, contemporary writings
and more, Emma The Twice-Crowned Queen is at once both scholarly and readily accessible. A must-have for British history and biography reference shelves.
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