Princess Gunhilda ENGLAND

   Other names for Gunhilda were Gunhild, Kunigunde and ENGLAND Princess.

   General Notes:

Princess of ENGLAND.

BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Gunhild, Daughter of Canute King of England and Emma, Mar Henry III Emperor of Germany, Died 1038."

A History of the English Speaking People Winston S Churchill Vol I The Birth of Britain Dodd Mead & Co p141:
"[Canute's] daughter was married to the Emperor Conrad's eldest son, who ultimately carried his empire across Schleswig to the banks of the Eider..."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Micropaedia, Vol VIII, p759, Henry III Emperor: "...In 1036 Henry married Gunhilda (Kunigunde), the young daughter of King Canute of England, Denmark, and Sweden. Because her father had died shortly before, the union with this frail and ailing girl brought with it no political advantages. She died in 1038..."

Macropaedia, Vol III, Canute the Great of Denmark and England: "...On his pilgrimage to Rome, timed for him to attend the coronation of the Emperor Conrad II in 1027, he secured from the latter and other princes whom he met reductions in tolls for English traders and pilgrims. Denmark benefitted from his friendly relations with the Emperor, who surrendered Schleswig and territory north of the Eider River when negotiations were begun before Canute's death for the marriage of the Emperor's son Henry to Canute's daughter Gunhild."

Vol V, p28, Conrad II Emperor: "...In 1036 Henry was married to Kunigunde, the daughter of King Canute of England..."

   Marriage Information:

Gunhilda married Emperor Henry GERMANY, III, son of Emperor Conrad GERMANY, II and Duchess Gisela SWABIA, in 1036. (Emperor Henry GERMANY, III was born on 28 Oct 1017 in Bodfeld, , Germany and died on 5 Oct 1056 in Bodfeld, , Germany.)