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An Engrian rebellion followed closely in 796, but Charlemagne's personal presence and the presence of loyal Christian Saxons and Slavs immediately crushed it. In the battle of Bornhöved in 798, the Obotrite allies of Charlemagne under Thrasco defeated the Nordalbingian Saxons, killing 2,800–4,000 of them. The last insurrection of the Engrian ...
Qays–Yaman war (793–796) S. Saxon Wars; Sack of Lisbon (798) Siege of Trsat; T. Battle of the Burbia River This page was last edited on 19 April 2019, at ...
The Massacre of Verden was an event during the Saxon Wars where the Frankish king Charlemagne ordered the death of 4,500 Saxons in October 782. Charlemagne claimed suzerainty over Saxony and in 772 destroyed the Irminsul , an important object in Saxon paganism , during his intermittent thirty-year campaign to Christianize the Saxons.
The Frisian–Frankish wars were a series of conflicts between the Frankish Empire and the Frisian kingdom in the 7th and 8th centuries. The wars were mainly about control of the Rhine delta. After the death of the Frisian king Redbad , the Franks gained the upper hand.
Saxon War: The Slav Obodrites, under their ruler Witzan, attack the northern Saxons in Liuni. He is killed in an ambush and succeeded by his son Drożko ( Thrasco ), who becomes a Carolingian dux . King Charlemagne leads a Frankish expeditionary force north from Mainz , and marches to the Elbe , where eastern Saxon rebels again surrender.
The Saxons were conquered by Charlemagne after a long series of annual campaigns, the Saxon Wars (772–804). With defeat came enforced baptism and conversion as well as the union of the Saxons with the rest of the Frankish empire. Their sacred tree or pillar, a symbol of Irminsul, was destroyed.
The Saxon Stories (also known as Saxon Tales/Saxon Chronicles in the US and The Warrior Chronicles and most recently as The Last Kingdom series) is a historical novel series written by Bernard Cornwell about the birth of England in the ninth and tenth centuries. The series consists of 13 novels.
Pages in category "Wars involving Saxony" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... Saxon Fratricidal War; Saxon revolt of 1073–1075;