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After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century the Old Saxons who remained in Germany were loosely associated with the Merovingian Kingdom of the Franks, but practically remained independent and maintained their old pagan religion.
Establishment
January 532: After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century the Old Saxons who remained in Germania were loosely associated within a confederation. Hadugato was the first documented duke of the Saxons.
Chronology
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After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century the Old Saxons who remained in Germania were loosely associated with the Merovingian kingdom of Franks, but practically remained independent and maintained their old pagan religion.
Was a war between Frankish subking Chlothar and the Saxons.
January 556: Between 555 and 556, the Saxons revolted again, perhaps instigated by Childebert. Faced with the Saxon revolt and threat of a massacre, Chlothar preferred peace talks. He offered to forego battle if they would accept his demand to continue to pay him tribute, despite a previous rejection. But his men, aggressive, eager for battle, contested the decision.
February 556: After an incredibly bloody battle, the Saxons and Franks made peace.
Were a series of conflict between the Kingdom of Frisia and the Frankish Kingdom. Frisia was finally inglobated into the Frankish domains.
3.1.Establishment of the Kingdom of Frisia
The Kingdom of Frisia emerged in ca. 600 AD.
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.
Were a series of revolts by the Kingdom of Thuringia against Frankish overlordship.
4.1.Independance of the Kingdom of the Thuringians
Was the secession of Thuringia after the death of the Frankish king Dagobert I.
January 639: In 641 he took part in the war against Duke Radulfo, to whom his father, Dagobert I had entrusted the defense of Thuringia, a frontier territory threatened by the Saxons, but who had rebelled after the death of Dagobert, in 639, creating an independent duchy .
Were a series of military campaigns by Frankish ruler Charles Martel.
5.1.Campaign of Charles Martel against the Saxons
Was a military campaign by Frankish ruler Charles Martel agains the Saxons.
January 719: Between 718 and 723, Charles secured his power through a series of victories: he won the loyalty of several important bishops and abbots by donating lands and money for the foundation of abbeys and subjugated Bavaria and Alemannia. Having unified the Franks under his banner, Charles was determined to punish the Saxons who had invaded Austrasia. Therefore, late in 718, he laid waste their country to the banks of the Weser, the Lippe, and the Ruhr. He defeated them in the Teutoburg Forest and thus secured the borders in the name of King Clotaire.
February 719: Between 718 and 723, Charles secured his power through a series of victories: he won the loyalty of several important bishops and abbots by donating lands and money for the foundation of abbeys and subjugated Bavaria and Alemannia. Having unified the Franks under his banner, Charles was determined to punish the Saxons who had invaded Austrasia. Therefore, late in 718, he laid waste their country to the banks of the Weser, the Lippe, and the Ruhr. He defeated them in the Teutoburg Forest and thus secured the borders in the name of King Clotaire.
Were a series of invasions of Saxony by the Frankish Kingdom to impose them the Christian faith.
January 744: Carloman, sub-king of Austrasia, conquered the castle of Hoohseoburg and defeated the Saxons led by Duke Theodoric forcing them to peace.
February 744: Carloman, sub-king of Austrasia, conquered the castle of Hoohseoburg and defeated the Saxons led by Duke Theodoric forcing them to peace.
January 745: Then, still in 744, Carloman and Pippin intervened with the army to put down the rebellion in Saxony and, after having captured the duke Theodoric once again, having made a large number of prisoners and ascertaining that they were of similar stock to the inhabitants of his reign, Carloman acquired them as subjects and many of them converted to the Christian faith and asked to be baptized.
February 745: Then, still in 744, Carloman and Pippin intervened with the army to put down the rebellion in Saxony and, after having captured the duke Theodoric once again, having made a large number of prisoners and ascertaining that they were of similar stock to the inhabitants of his reign, Carloman acquired them as subjects and many of them converted to the Christian faith and asked to be baptized.
January 749: In 748, the Saxons, as was their custom, had broken their oaths, so Pippin was forced to intervene, with the help of the Frisians. After many of them had already been killed or taken prisoner and their lands burned, the Saxons, seized with fear, sued for peace, promising to be tributaries.
February 749: In 748, the Saxons, as was their custom, had broken their oaths, so Pippin was forced to intervene, with the help of the Frisians. After many of them had already been killed or taken prisoner and their lands burned, the Saxons, seized with fear, sued for peace, promising to be tributaries.
January 750: Seeing, moreover, that they could not oppose the Franks, having dismissed their commanders, they converted to the Christian faith. But then, due to pressure from the Bavarians, they abjured their faith and did not keep their word, so in 749, Pepin returned with the army to Saxony.
February 750: Seeing, moreover, that they could not oppose the Franks, having dismissed their commanders, they converted to the Christian faith. But then, due to pressure from the Bavarians, they abjured their faith and did not keep their word, so in 749, Pepin returned with the army to Saxony.
January 759: In 758, Pepin the Short, King of the Franks, led a campaign to the Tribal Confederation of the Saxons, where he defeated and massacred the Saxons in Sitnia. This brutal act helped to subdue the Saxons' resistance to Frankish rule for several years.
February 759: In 758, Pepin, the King of the Franks, led a campaign in Saxony and defeated the Saxons at Sitnia, crushing their resistance for years. Pepin was the son of Charlemagne and a powerful ruler in the Frankish Empire. The Saxons were a tribal confederation in the region.
Military campaigns initiated by the Frankish emperor Charlemagne.
7.1.Saxon Wars
Were a series of wars and revolts in Saxony during the reign of Charles the Great.
January 774: 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 to the Saxons. 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.
January 776: Charlemagne crossed Engria, where he defeated the Saxons.
January 776: Charlemagne's second campaign came in the year 775. Then he marched through Westphalia, conquering the fort of Sigiburg.
January 779: By 778 AD the Saxons were moreor less independent again.
September 779: In summer 779, Charlemagne again went into Saxony and conquered Eastphalia, Engria, and Westphalia.
January 783: Charlemagne conquerd Saxony.
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.
January 724: In 723 Charles Martel suppressed the Saxons again.
February 724: End of Frankish raid in Saxony.
Disestablishment
January 783: Charlemagne conquerd Saxony.
Tribal Confederation of the Saxons
