The
Earls of East Anglia were an Anglo-Danish institution of
Canute the Great. His conquest meant he had to divide the Kingdom of England into easily manageable regions, and he made
Thorkell the Tall the first Earl of East Anglia in
1016. His four
Earldoms were the first such division of England, and the others were the Earldoms of Mercia, Northumbria and Wessex.
Canute the Great
King of England, Denmark and Norway, as well as some of Sweden
Reign England: 1016 - 1035
Denmark: 1018 - 1035
Norway: 1028 - 1035
Predecessor Edmund Ironside (England)
Harald II (Denmark)
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Thorkell the Tall, also known as Thorkell the High in the Anglo-Saxon chronicles (Old Norse: Ãorke(ti)ll inn hávi; Norwegian: Torkjell Høge; Swedish; Torkel Höge: Danish: Torkild den Høje) was a Jomsviking, a son of the Scanian chieftain Strut-Harald, a brother of
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10th century - 11st century - 12nd century
980s 990s 1000s - 1010s - 1020s 1030s 1040s
1013 1014 1015 - 1016 - 1017 1018 1019
Lists of leaders
State leaders - Sovereign states
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Earl or Jarl was an Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian title meaning "chieftain" and referring especially to chieftains set to rule a territory in a king's stead. In Scandinavia, it became obsolete in the Middle Ages and was replaced with duke (hertig/hertug
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