Cnut’s victory in the Battle of Ashington…
1017 CE
Cnut’s victory in the Battle of Ashington has won him acceptance by the English nobility, to whom he pledges strong government.
Regarding himself as a successor to previous English kings, Cnut in 1017 marries Æthelred's widow, Emma of Normandy.
Cnut subdivides England into the earldoms of Wessex, …