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...
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important trade route. Verden is famous for a massacre of Saxons in 782, committed on the orders of Charlemagne (the Massacre of Verden), for its cathedral...
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Charlemagne (redirect from Charles I of France)
over a large part of Europe. Charlemagne spread Christianity to his new conquests (often by force), as seen at the Massacre of Verden against the Saxons...
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Widukind (category Year of birth unknown)
500 Saxons executed at the Massacre of Verden. Widukind allied himself with the Frisians but Charlemagne's winter attacks of 784/785 were nevertheless...
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Geschichte der Alamannen (Wege der Forschungen), Darmstadt, 1979 Blood court Stockholm Bloodbath (similar event in Swedish history) Massacre of Verden v t e...
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Donar's Oak (redirect from Oak of Thor)
death for Saxon pagans refusing to convert to Christianity Massacre of Verden, a massacre of 4,500 captive pagan Saxons ordered by Charlemagne in 782 Caill...
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Saxon Wars (category History of North Rhine-Westphalia)
Frisian–Frankish wars Massacre of Verden Saxony Duchy of Saxony Germanic peoples Jennifer R. Davis (2015), Charlemagne's Practice of Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge...
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Carolingian Empire (redirect from List of Lands of the Carolingian Empire)
804, with such events as the Massacre of Verden in 782 and the codification of the Lex Saxonum in 802. Prior to the death of Charlemagne, the Empire was...
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contemporary definitions of religious persecution typically do not include actions taken during war, the Massacre of Verden represents an event that is...
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several uprisings against the occupants, avenged by Charlemagne at the Massacre of Verden in 782. Widukind allegedly had to pledge allegiance in 785, having...
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to the Aller River, making camp near Verden. Massacre of Verden: Charlemagne executes 4,500 rebel Saxons at Verden for practicing paganism. He issues the...
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an incomplete list of massacres that have occurred in present-day Germany and its predecessors: The following is a list of massacres that have occurred...
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way of warfare, and law upon conquest. Examples are the Massacre of Verden in 782, when Charlemagne reportedly had 4,500 captive Saxons massacred for...
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Christianity (section Qualities of Scripture)
instituted the death penalty for practicing pagans (see the Massacre of Verden, for example), Catholicism also spread among the Hungarians, the Germanic...
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More specifically, the scenario covers the Battle of Süntel and the Massacre of Verden in the year 782. The player controls the Franks against the Saxons...
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Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae (category History of Lower Saxony)
"terror capitulary" and notes that the Massacre of Verden, in which Charlemagne ordered 4,500 imprisoned Saxons massacred in 782, may be seen as a preface to...
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Schleswig-Holstein (redirect from List of honorary citizens of Schleswig-Holstein)
execution of 4,500 Saxons, an atrocity that became known as the Massacre of Verden. Following this brutal act, Charlemagne was nicknamed the "Butcher of Saxons"...
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ordered for a memorial of 4,500 standing stones to be placed near Verden an der Aller, the scene of the infamous Massacre of Verden in 782, calling the place...
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to the Aller River, making camp near Verden. Massacre of Verden: Charlemagne executes 4,500 rebel Saxons at Verden for practicing paganism. He issues the...
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Wannenburgh (section Wa(h)nebergen of Verden (Aller))
instance of someone bearing this family name as early as 1162—namely the ministerialis and advocatus ('Vogt zu Verden'), Conrad I von Wanebergen, of Verden an...
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these events, see History of Germany. See also the list of German monarchs and list of chancellors of Germany and the list of years in Germany. Centuries:...
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leading to the massacre of Verden. The Amelungsburg was not a battlefield - few weapons have been found here - but could have been part of the Saxon's overall...
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2011 Norway attacks (redirect from Holiday Islands Massacre)
the newspaper Verdens Gang as considering himself a conservative nationalist. According to The Australian, Breivik was highly critical of Muslim immigration...
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Süntel (category Forests and woodlands of Lower Saxony)
annihilated part of the Frankish occupation troops, a defeat which was avenged in the same year by Charlemagne at the Massacre of Verden. The Hohenstein...
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Hermann Gauch (category Proponents of scientific racism)
by Charlemagne in the Massacre of Verden, which was erected in Verden an der Aller in 1935. Gauch enlisted on the outbreak of World War II, serving initially...
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an event sometimes known as the Verden Massacre. "Süntel, Battle of, Germany, 782 – LC Linked Data Service (Library of Congress)". Id.loc.gov. Retrieved...
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East Prussia some 30 km (19 mi) south of Königsberg, today Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia and the scene of a massacre of German civilians on 29 August 1914....
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Christianity and paganism (category Persecution of Pagans)
variety of draconian measures" beginning with the massacre at Verden in 782 when he ordered the decapitation of 4500 Saxon prisoners offering them baptism as...
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Christianization (redirect from Christianization of Europe)
variety of draconian measures" beginning with the massacre at Verden in 782 when he ordered the decapitation of 4500 Saxon prisoners offering them baptism as...
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George III (redirect from List of titles and honours of King George III)
1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain...
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