Editing Emma of Normandy (section)

== Marriage to Cnut ==
[[File:EmmaNormanská.jpg|thumb|right|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'')]]
Cnut gained control of most of England after he defeated Edmund Ironside on 18 October 1016, at the [[Battle of Assandun]], after which they agreed to divide the kingdom, Edmund taking Wessex and Cnut the rest of the country. Edmund died shortly afterwards on 30 November, and Cnut became the king of all England. At the time of their marriage in 1017,{{sfn|Strachan|2004|p=172}} Emma's sons from her marriage to Æthelred were sent to live in Normandy under the tutelage of her brother. At this time Emma became Queen of England, and later of Denmark and Norway.

The ''[[Encomium Emmae Reginae]]'' suggests in its second book that Emma and Cnut's marriage, though begun as a political strategy, became an affectionate marriage.
During their marriage, Emma and Cnut had a son, [[Harthacnut]], and a daughter, [[Gunhilda of Denmark|Gunhilda]].