Cnut the Great and his queen Aelfgifu of Northampton. Cnut the Great, c. 995 - 1035, aka Canute. King of Denmark, England and Norway. Aelfgifu of Northampton,c. 990 - after 1036. First wife of King Cnut of England and Denmark, mother of King Harold I of England and Queen regent of Norway from 1030 to 1035. From Old England: A Pictorial Museum, published 1847.