Cook Family Ancestry Sveyn I Forkbeard Haraldsson King of Denmark [4670] This title is just so we know which tree we are working in, as there are many families represented here.

Gorm the old of Jutland King of Denmark [6922]
(Abt 0840-0958)

Thyri Klacksdottir [6924]
(Abt 0870-Abt 0935)

Olaf of Sweden Bjornsson King of Sweden [4676]
(Abt 0950-)

Ingeberg Thrandotter [60114]

Harald I Bluetooth Gormsson King of Denmark [6921]
(Abt 0910-0986)

Gyrid of Sweden Olafsdottir [6930]

Sveyn I Forkbeard Haraldsson King of Denmark [4670]
(Abt 0960-1014)

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Spouses/Children:
1. Gunhilda of Poland [6913]

2. Sigrid the Haughty [4683]

Sveyn I Forkbeard Haraldsson King of Denmark [4670] ²⁴

Born: Abt 960, Denmark
Marriage (1): Gunhilda of Poland [6913] about 990
Marriage (2): Sigrid the Haughty [4683] about 996
Died: 2 Feb 1014, Gainsborough, Lincoln, England about age 54
Buried: Roeskild Cathedral, Denmark

bullet General Notes:

Acceded: 1 NOV 986

King of England 1013-1014. King of Denmark 986-987 and 1000-1014.

http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal01776

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweyn_Forkbeard

bullet Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded, 1 Nov 986.

Sveyn married Gunhilda of Poland [6913] [MRIN: 2620], daughter of Mieszko (Mieczislaw, Burislaf) I of Poland Duke of Poland [6914] and Dobrawa (Dobravy) of Bohemia [64300], about 990. (Gunhilda of Poland [6913] died about 1015.)

Sveyn next married Sigrid the Haughty [4683] [MRIN: 1359], daughter of Skogul-Tosti [4674] and Unknown, about 996. (Sigrid the Haughty [4683] was born in Sweden and died before 1013.)

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Sveyn I Forkbeard Haraldsson King of Denmark [4670] ²⁴