Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark is proclaimed King of England after the English nobility submits to him. Sweyn had built a strong an imposing Danish North Sea empire, establishing control in Norway in 1000 and conquering England in 1013. He died there on February 3, 1014, having ruled England for only five weeks. Sweyn's cause of death is unknown.
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