Canute VI of Denmark
…from 1182 to 1202. Contemporary sources describe Canute as an earnest, strongly religious man. Canute VI was the eldest son of King Valdemar I and Sophia of Polotsk. His younger brother Valdemar was born in 1170. On 25 June 1170, at age 7, Canute was proclaimed and crowned co-king of Denmark with his father. Canute…