Canute VI of Denmark

Canute VI
Contemporary donor portrait of Canute in Stehag Church, Scania
King of Denmark
Reign1182–1202
Coronation25 June 1170
PredecessorValdemar I
SuccessorValdemar II
King of the Wends
Reign1185–1202
SuccessorValdemar II
Bornc. 1163
Died12 November 1202 (aged 38–39)
Burial
St. Bendt's Church
Spouse
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(m. 1177; died 1197)​
HouseEstridsen
FatherValdemar I of Denmark
MotherSophia of Minsk

Canute VI (Danish: Knud Valdemarsøn; c. 1163 – 12 November 1202) was King of Denmark from 1182 to 1202. Contemporary sources describe Canute as an earnest, strongly religious man.

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