Denmark
One Gorm "the Old" became King of Denmark (935-ca 950), +ca 950; m.Thyra Dannebod (+ca 935), dau.of Harald, Ct of Holstein. He left issue:

• A1. Knut Danaast, Ct of Holstein, +murdered ca 940
  • B1. Gold-Harald, +murdered ca 970
• A2. Harald "Bluetooth-Blaatand", King of Denmark and Norway (970-991), *ca 910, +before 988/991; 1m: Gunhild N; 2m: Tove (possibly a dau.of Pr Mistiwoj of the Wends)
  • B1. Svend I Tjugguskegg "Fork-beard", King of Denmark (ca 986-1014), Norway (1002-14) and England (1013-14), +Gainsborough 3.2.1014; m.998 Swietoslawa-Gunhild of Poland (+after 1014)
    • C1. Knud II "the Great", King of England (1016-35) as Canute "the Great", King of Denmark (1018-35), and of Norway (1028-35), *995, +Shaftesbury 12.11.1035; 1m: Alfifa N; 2m: 1017 Emma of Normandy (*ca 985 +1052)
      • D1. Knud III "the Hardy" (Hardeknud III), King of Denmark (1035-42) and England (1042), +Lambeth 8.6.1042
      • D2. Gunhild=Kunigunde, *1019, +Italy 18.7.1038; m.Nimeguen 1036 Emperor Heinrich III (*28.10.1017 +5.10.1056)
      • D3. [illegitimate by Aelfgifu Aelfhelmsdotter] Svend, King of Norway (1030-35), +1036
      • D4. [illegitimate by Aelfgifu Aelfhelmsdotter] Harald I "Harefoot", King of England (1037-42), *ca 1016, +Oxford 1040/42
    • C2. King Harald II of Denmark (1014-18), +1018
    • C3. Gyda; m.ca 996 Erik Hakonson Jarl, Reichsverweser of Norway (+1024)
    • C4. Estrid Svenssdotter; 1m: 1017 Duke Richard II of Normandy (*996 +28.8.1026); 2m: Ulf Jarl, Reichsverweser of Denmark (+1026)
    • C5. Thyra Svenssdotter, *ca 993, +1018; m.Earl Godwine of Wessex and Kent (+15.4.1053)
  • B2. Gunhild, +murdered 13.11.1002; m.Pallig, an Ealdorman in Devonshire (+murdered 1002)
    *** Harald Bluetooth may also have been father of the following two kids:
  • B3. Haakon, who settled in Northumbria
  • B4. Thyra, +1000; 1m: Bjorn of Sweden (+985); 2m: Pr Borislaw of the Wends; 3m: 998 King Olaf Tryggveson of Norway (+1000)
  *** King Gorm may also have been father of the following two kids:
• A3. Gunhild, +after 970; m.King Erik "Bloodaxe" of Norway and Northumbria (+954)
• A4. Toke Gormson, +k.a.985
  • B1. Asbjorn Tokeson, +k.a.985

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