Encomium Emmae Reginae

Encomium Emmae Reginae
Gesta Cnutonis Regis
Queen Emma receiving the Encomium Emmae Reginae from the author (kneeling), with her sons Harthacnut and Edward the Confessor in the background. This illustration is found in the extant 11th-century copy of the Encomium in the British Library.
Author(s)	"The Encomiast", an anonymous monk of St Bertin's Abbey
Patron	Emma of Normandy
Audience	Harthacnut's court
Language	Latin
Date	1041 / 1042
Manuscript(s)	(1) BL, Add. 33241; (2) NLW, Hengwrt 158 (=Peniarth 281); (3) BL, Add. 6920; (4) Bibliothèque Nationale, Fonds Lat. 6235; (5) Courtenay Compendium (olim Exeter, Devon Record Office)
Personages	Emma, Harthacnut, Thorkill, etc.

Encomium Emmae Reginae or Gesta Cnutonis Regis is an 11th-century Latin encomium in honour of the English queen Emma of Normandy. It was written in 1041 or 1042, probably by a monk of Saint Bertin, which was then in the County of Flanders.