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King of Kings - by Lewis Lavoie
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| Wikipedia: A Viking king of England, Denmark and Norway. His successes as a statesman, politically and militarily, prove him to be one of the greatest figures of medieval Europe. With his kingship over England's archdioceses, and the continental diocese of Denmark - with a claim lain upon it by the Holy Roman Empire's Hamburg-Bremen archdiocese - and the high status he found among medieval Christendom's magnates, Cnut enjoyed considerable leverage within the Church, winning a number of concessions for his people from the Pope at the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor. On a journey to Rome, after his victory against Norway and Sweden, in a letter, Cnut proclaims himself king of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes. His kingship of England, and the concomitant struggles of the kings of Denmark for preeminence within Scandinavia, though, meant Cnut held a considerable overlordship across other areas of the British Isles too, in line with his Anglo-Saxon predecessors, and the leader of a very strong Viking regime. |
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