Hardicanute, king of England and Denmark, the son of Canute and his successor on the Danish throne; was king of England only in part till the death of his brother Harold, whom he survived only two years, but long enough to alienate his subjects by the re-imposition of the Danegelt; (d. 1642).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hardenberg Prince von * Harding, John