Canute VI of Denmark

Canute VI (1163–1202), eldest son of Valdemar the Great, was made co-king in 1170 and ruled Denmark alone from 1182. When Emperor Frederick Barbarossa demanded homage in 1184, Canute defied him; Absalon's fleet shattered the invasion fleet of Bogislaw I of Pomerania, and by 1185 Bogislaw acknowledged Canute as overlord, after which Danish kings bore the title King of the Wends.

Canute crusaded against the pagan Estonians in 1197. He died childless in 1202 and the crown passed to his brother Valdemar II.