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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.
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.
Widukind, also known as Wittekind and Wittikund, [1] was a leader of the Saxons and the chief opponent of the Frankish king Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars from 777 to 785. . Charlemagne ultimately prevailed, organized Saxony as a Frankish province, massacred thousands of Saxon nobles, and ordered conversions of the pagan Saxons to Christia
The Saxon Wars (772–804), the conquest of Saxony by Charlemagne. The Swedish invasion of Saxony (1706), during the Great Northern War The Invasion of Saxony in 1756 during the Third Silesian War .
Bernard Cornwell OBE (born 23 February 1944) is a British-American author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign.He is best known for his long-running series of novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe.
An Irminsul (Old Saxon 'great pillar') was a sacred, pillar-like object attested as playing an important role in the Germanic paganism of the Saxons. Medieval sources describe how an Irminsul was destroyed by Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars. A church was erected on its place in 783 and blessed by Pope Leo III.
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;
The Saxons long resisted becoming Christians [49] and being incorporated into the orbit of the Frankish kingdom. [50] In 776 the Saxons promised to convert to Christianity and vow loyalty to the king, but, during Charlemagne's campaign in Hispania (778), the Saxons advanced to Deutz on the Rhine and plundered along the river. This was an oft ...