Canute, king of England

(990 c.-1035)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Canute I, King of England, 995?-1035 DNB: Cnut [Canute] (d. 1035), king of England, of Denmark, and of Norway LBT ID: Canut1035 VIAF ID: 76396449 LOC ID: n81097818	B/BAP: 0990 DIED: 1035
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
He was king of England, 1016-35; the story of his overweening attempt to repel the sea is found in Holinshed's Chronicles.
REFERENCES TO Canute, king of England: Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 29 January 1807 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ 13 Catherine Grace Frances Gore to William Harness, [1848?] in Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter X. Found 1: ¶ 58 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter VII. Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1807