Harthacanute

/ ˈhɑːθəkəˌnjuːt /

noun

Harthacanute?10191042MDanishPOLITICS: hereditary ruler ?1019–42, king of Denmark (1035–42) and of England (1040–42); son of Canute

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Leofric put Harthacanute on the throne, and your father, who was a man, helped him.

Ulf and Harthacanute soon retreated to Jutland, and left the islands and Scania to the enemy.

Next he led his son Harthacanute to his own high-seat and gave him the kings-name with the government of the Danish realms.

There can be little doubt that Canute intended to make Harthacanute the heir to all his realms.

The same year Harthacanute joined his mother at Bruges, whither she had fled when exiled from England.

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