Queen Of England TWICE - And A Cause Of The Norman Invasion? | Emma of Normandy

Emma of Normandy is one of the most famous Anglo-Saxon queens, and she certainly left plenty for historians to go over. She was Queen of the English not once, but twice, as well as becoming queen of Denamrk and Norway through her second husband, Cnut. Emma was a politically prominent figure in the later years of the Anglo-Saxon period, and her first marriage, to Aethelred the Unready, along with her push to keep a son of hers on the English throne, may even have contributed to the later Norman invasion of England's shores...


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Women in Anglo-Saxon England by Christine Hall - https://amzn.to/3JLfNQY

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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Emma of Normandy) - https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10....

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