Encomium Emmae Reginae
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| Genres | Biography |
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| Date | 1041 / 1042 |
| Author(s) | "The Encomiast", an anonymous monk of St Bertin's or St Omer's abbey |
| Editors | Simon Keynes |
| Alistair Campbell | |
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| ID | 2124290 |
About Encomium Emmae Reginae
Encomium Emmae Reginae or Gesta Cnutonis Regis is an 11th-century Latin encomium in honour of Queen Emma of Normandy, consort of Kings Æthelred the Unready and Cnut the Great of England, and mother of kings Harthacnut and Edward the Confessor. It was written in 1041 or 1042, probably by a monk of Saint-Omer.