Deaths on November 12

Canute VI of Denmark

Died on November 12, 1202

Canute VI of Denmark (b. 1163)

Canute VI (Danish: Knud Valdemarsøn; c. 1163 – 12 November 1202) was King of Denmark (1182–1202).

Contemporary sources describe Canute as an earnest, strongly religious man.

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