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In mid-January 772, the sacking and burning of the church of Deventer by a Saxon expedition was the casus belli for the first war waged by Charlemagne against the Saxons. It began with a Frankish invasion of Saxon territory and the subjugation of the Engrians and destruction of their sacred symbol Irminsul near Paderborn in 772 or 773 at Eresburg.
This is an incomplete list of the wars and battles between the Anglo-Saxons who later formed into the Kingdom of England and the Britons (the pre-existing Brythonic population of Britain south of the Antonine Wall who came to be known later by the English as the Welsh), as well as the conflicts between the English and Welsh in subsequent centuries.
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c. 520: Saxons took control of Sussex, Kent, East Anglia and part of Yorkshire, West Saxons founded a Kingdom in Hampshire under Cerdic. 535 & 536: The extreme weather events of 535–536 likely caused a great famine and thus population loss. In or before 547: Bernicia established by Angles taking over part of a British area called Bryneich.
The Danelaw (/ ˈ d eɪ n ˌ l ɔː /, Danish: Danelagen; Norwegian: Danelagen; Old English: Dena lagu) [2] was the part of England between the early tenth century and the Norman Conquest under Anglo-Saxon rule in which Danish laws applied. [3]
Historian Nick Higham calls this the "War of the Saxon Federates". It ended after a Romano-British victory at the siege at "Mount Badon", the location of which is no longer known. [25] Writing generations later Gildas, unlike much later Anglo Saxon writers, didn't mention any ongoing conflict against "Saxons".
Consequently, in the War of 1866, when Prussia was successful, the independence of Saxony was once more in danger; only the intervention of the Austrian Emperor saved Saxony from being entirely absorbed by Prussia. The kingdom, however, was obliged to join the North German Confederation of which Prussia was the head. In 1871 Saxony became one ...
Saxon war, Saxon revolt or Saxon rebellion may refer to: War of the Saxon Federates, part of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain around AD 500; Saxon Wars (772–804), a series of wars between the Saxons and the Franks under Charlemagne; Saxon revolt of 1073–1075, a rebellion against Emperor Henry IV; Saxon revolt of 1077–1088, a ...