British Monarch.
Cause of death: cancer
Legitimate son of King Canute & his second wife, Emma, Hardicanute became King of Denmark on his father's death in 1035 & was in Denmark when his half-brother, Harold Harefoot, claimed the throne. He was in the process of invading England when news of Harefoot's death reached him. After a brief reign, his step-mother's son Edward was named his successor.
Cause of death: Convulsions at a marriage feast for Tostig the Proud.
British Monarch. He was king of England from 1216 to 1272, most of which time was spent at war with his barons. He became very unpopular due to his patronage of French favorites. Though he was considered a poor and inept king, his reign saw much progress in many areas.
British Monarch, son of King Henry VII. Henry VIII ruled from 1509 to 1547. He was both ruthless and brilliant leading his nation into the Renaissance age. He is famed not for his brilliant leadership qualities but for his bloody ruthlessness. He desperately wanted a male heir, and married six times to secure this objective. He had two of his wives executed and divorced two more. He refused to let anyone stand in his way, including the Pope. When the Pope refused the divorce of Catherine of Aragon, Cardinal Wolsey, a close aid of Henry's who had run England for him for twenty years, failed to change the Pope's views, and Henry ordered the execution of Wolsey in 1530, saving him from being put on trial. Henry later made himself head of the English church instead of the Pope, pronouncing his own divorce. Between 1536 and 1539, Henry, along with minister Thomas Cromwell, closed England's monasteries and took their wealth.
British Monarch. Ruled England from 1413 to 1422, he distinguished himself in the wars with France, his victory at Agincourt on the 25th October 1415, being his greatest triumph.