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The Frisian Kingdom (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ən /; West Frisian: Fryske Keninkryk) is a modern name for the post-Roman Frisian realm in Western Europe in the period when it was at its largest (650–734). This dominion was ruled by kings and emerged in the mid-7th century and probably ended with the Battle of the Boarn in 734 when the Frisians were ...
The Frisian Realm during its great expansion The Frisian Kingdom, 6th–8th century AD. Frisian presence during the Early Middle Ages has been documented from North-Western Flanders up to the Weser River Estuary.
The Frisian Realm during its great expansion. The 8th-century historian Bede also used the term 'Frisians' for Franks in the south of Frisia. [1] [2] East Anglian sources called the inhabitants of 'Frisia' Warnii instead of Frisians. In the 7th and 8th centuries, the Frankish chronologies mention this area as the kingdom of the Frisians ...
Radbodus II, 749-775. He was, according Hamconius, a heathen and grew up in the court of the King of Denmark. He was supposed to have participated in the Saxon rebellion and thought to have fled back to Denmark, after which the Kingdom of Frisia was dissolved. Medieval chivalric romances contain the names of other fictitious Frisian kings ...
By the end of the sixth century, Frisian territory had expanded westward to the North Sea coast and, in the seventh century, southward down to Dorestad. This farthest extent of Frisian territory is sometimes referred to as Frisia Magna. Early Frisia was ruled by a High King, with the earliest reference to a 'Frisian King' being dated 678. [21]
While his predecessor, Aldgisl, [1] had welcomed Christianity into his realm, Radbod attempted to extirpate the religion and gain independence from the kingdom of the Franks. In 689, however, Radbod was defeated by Pepin of Herstal in the battle of Dorestad [ 2 ] and compelled to cede Frisia Citerior (Nearer Frisia, from the Scheldt to the Vlie ...
A print of Friso, the legendary founder of Frisia, by Pieter Feddes van Harlingen (c. 1619). According to a medieval Frisian historiographical work, the Gesta-cycle, [b] after Thomas the Apostle traveled to Christianize India, God led three Christian brothers – Friso, Saxo, and Bruno – from their native home, called Fresia, [c] in northern India to northern Europe.
This extended Frisian territory is sometimes referred to as Frisia Magna (or Greater Frisia). Dorestad and main traderoutes. In the 7th and 8th centuries, the Frankish chronologies mention this area as the kingdom of the Frisians. This kingdom comprised the coastal provinces of the Netherlands and the German North Sea coast. During this time ...