The Fleet That Went Home and Drowned Canute's Plan
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The Fleet That Went Home and Drowned Canute's Plan
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Nearly a thousand ships sat anchored in the Limfjord through the summer of 1085, waiting for a king who had gone somewhere else. Denmark's peasant soldiers had assembled for what would become the last serious Viking attempt to conquer England, but as the harvest crept closer, their commander was hundreds of miles away managing a different threat entirely. What happened when that fleet finally went home would set in motion a chain of decisions no one could undo.
In this episode, we trace the five-year reign of Canute the Fourth of Denmark, from his marriage alliance against William the Conqueror and his sweeping domestic reforms to the fatal miscalculation that turned an exhausted army into a mortal enemy, asking whether he was a tyrant who provoked his own downfall or a reformer whose vision outpaced the age he ruled.
Person: Canute the Fourth of Denmark
Location: Odense, Denmark
Date: July 10, 1086
Case: the killing of a Danish king inside the wooden church of Saint Alban's Priory
Status: canonized as a saint by Pope Paschal the Second on April 19, 1101
- In May 1085, Canute signed a donation letter to Lund Cathedral that survives today as the oldest comprehensive written text from Denmark
- Nearly a thousand ships gathered at the Limfjord in 1085 for an invasion of England, prompting William the Conqueror to order the Domesday survey
- Canute had his brother Olaf arrested and sent to Flanders after Olaf carried the fleet's request to disband for the harvest
- The Chronicon Roskildense confirms that fines were levied against the peasants who left the leding to bring in their crops
- A 2008 CT scan of Canute's remains in Saint Canute's Cathedral found the fatal wound was a thrust through the abdomen into the sacrum, contradicting Ælnoth of Canterbury's account of a lance through the flank
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