Queen Emma (of Normandy) (c.985/7-1052) wife of King Ethelred II and King Canute
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Measurements
230 x 155 mm
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Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 452899
Summary
Print, engraving, Queen Emma (of Normandy) (c.985/7-1052) wife of King Ethelred II and King Canute. She was Queen consort of England by successive marriages: first as second wife to Æthelred the Unready of England (1002–16); and then second wife to Canute the Great of Denmark (1017–35). She acted as regent in Wessex in 1040. Two of her sons, one by each husband, and two stepsons, also by each husband, became kings of England, as did her great-nephew, William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy..