Kingdom of Frisia
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Was an independent post-Roman Frisian realm. It was conquered by the Frankish Empire after the Battle of Boarn in 734 AD.
Establishment
January 601: The Kingdom of Friesland, also known as Magna Frisia, was a kingdom in what is now the Netherlands and northern Germany, established around the year 600.
January 601: At the end of the 6th century, the Frisians occupied the coast up to the mouth of the Weser. In doing so, they assimilated or expelled the Chauken tribe. In the south, Frisians founded the settlement of Dorestad in the 7th century and from there they extended the Frisian sphere of influence to Bruges.
Chronology
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Were a series of conflict between the Kingdom of Frisia and the Frankish Kingdom. Frisia was finally inglobated into the Frankish domains.
January 631: By 630 the situation had changed. The Merovingian king Dagobert I brought the Frankish empire under one banner again and conquered the lands south of the Oude Rijn. This time they brought Christianity to the Frisian lands and built a church in Utrecht.
January 651: After Dagobert died the Franks could not hold their position there, and around 650 the central river area, including Dorestad became Frisian again. The manufacturing of Frankish coins stopped and the city of Utrecht became the residence of the Frisian kings.
January 690: In 689, however, Pepin launched a campaign of conquest in Western Frisia. All the land between the Scheldt and the Vlie was incorporated into Francia.
January 717: After Pepin of Herstal, who was the de facto ruler of Francia, died in 714, Redbad of Frisia took advantage of the battle for succession in Frankish lands. He concluded a treaty with the Frankish mayor of the palace Ragenfrid so that in 716 his armies entered Frankish territory as far as Cologne, where they were victorious in the Battle of Cologne. In this way all lands south of the Rhine became Frisian again.
January 720: It is not certain who the successor of Redbad was. It is believed that there were troubles with the succession, because the Frankish opponent Charles Martel easily invaded Frisia and subjugated the territory. The resistance was so weak that Charles Martel not only annexed Frisia Citerior, but he also crossed the Rhine and annexed "farther" Frisia, to the banks of the river Vlie.
January 735: In 734 Charles fought against Eastern Frisia and finally subdued it.
1.1.Establishment of the Kingdom of Frisia
The Kingdom of Frisia emerged in ca. 600 AD.
1.2.Annexation of East Frisia
In 734 at the Battle of the Boarn the Frisians were defeated and the Franks annexed the Frisian lands between the rivers Vlie and Lauwers.
January 735: In 734 at the Battle of the Boarn the Frisians were defeated and the Franks annexed the Frisian lands between the Vlie and the Lauwers.
Disestablishment
January 735: In 734 at the Battle of the Boarn the Frisians were defeated and the Franks annexed the Frisian lands between the Vlie and the Lauwers.
January 735: In 734 Charles fought against Eastern Frisia and finally subdued it.
