Emma of Normandy

Emma of Normandy (born v. 976 - died the March 6th 1052 with Winchester) was a Princesse Norman, girl of the duke of Normandy Richard Without-Fear and of its “ bubbled ” Gunnor.

In 1000 an English maritime forwarding against the Cotentin fails. The peace negotiations which follow succeed and the treaty is sealed by engagement of Emma to the sovereign of England. By its marriage in 1002 with the Anglo-Saxon King Ethelred II, it becomes Reine of a England in prey with the Danish ambitions. Indeed, dice the November 23rd, Ethelred had started again the conflict with Svein Ier of Denmark by starting the Massacre of the Saint-Brice. The raids then will follow one another.

End 1013, it owes a time to find refuge in Normandy with her husband and his children, whereas the Viking S Danish devastate England. Recalled by the population, they go back there the next year to dead Sven Barbe fourchue. Shortly after the death of Ethelred in 1016, it marries the new Danish king of England and Norway Knut Large the (1017).

Mother of the future kings Edouard the Confessor, born from his union with Ethelred, and Hardiknut, born from its union with Knud the Large one. At the end of the Danish domination of England, it will support the descent of Knud to the detriment of that of Ethelred. Arrived at the capacity in 1042, his/her Edouard son will remember it and will definitively draw aside it from the capacity. It is however by its relationship with Emma that its great nephew, William the Conqueror, will be able to claim with the English crown in 1066.

She dies in Winchester the March 6th 1052.

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