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Emma receiving the Encomium, in The Encomium Of Queen Emma, British Library MS 33241.

Queen consort of England

Tenure 1002 – summer 1013

3 February 1014 – 23 April 1016

July 1017 – 12 November 1035

Queen consort of Denmark

Tenure 1018 – 12 November 1035

Queen consort of Norway

Tenure 1028 - 12 November 1035

Born c.?985

Normandy

Died 6 March 1052 (aged 66–67)

Winchester, Hampshire, England

Burial Old Minster, Winchester. Bones now in Winchester Cathedral

Spouse Æthelred the Unready

Cnut the Great

Issue with Æthelred

Edward, King of England

Goda, Countess of Boulogne

Alfred Ætheling

with Cnut

Harthacnut

Gunhilda, Holy Roman Empress

House Normandy

Father Richard the Fearless

Mother Gunnora

Religion Roman Catholicism

Emma fleeing England with her two young sons following the invasion by Sweyn Forkbeard (1013). Detail of a 13th-century miniature (Fugit emma regina cum pueris suis in normanniam cum pueris suis ut ibidem a duce patre suo protegatur).

Queen Emma and her sons being received by Duke Richard II of Normandy. Cambridge University Library.

Mortuary chest from Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, England. This is one of six mortuary chests near the altar in the Cathedral, this one purports to contain the bones of Cnut and his wife Emma, along with others

The Ordeal of Queen Emma by William Blake.