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Charlemagne orders the death of 4500 Saxons as punishment for revolting.

Related Conflict :Saxon Wars of Charlemagne
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Army of Charlemagne Origin: Frankish Gender: Male, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
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    Victim (Group) :
  • Origin: Saxon Gender: Male, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed, Direct Consequence: death
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    Third Party (Person) :
  • Charlemagne Karolus Magnus Origin: Frankish, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler
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    Level :intersocial
    Source :Annales Regni Francorum 782 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Visurgis (Weser), Alera (Aller)
    Time Periode :Carolingian Period
    Century :A.D. 8
    Year :A.D. 782
    Speed :Fast
     
    Context :revolt
    jurisdictional
    Motivation :political
    social
     
    Original Text :Hoc audiens domnus Carolus rex una cum Francis, quos sub celeritate coniungere potuit, illuc perrexit et pervenit usque ad locum, ubi Alara confluit in Wisora. Tune omnes Saxones iterum convenientes subdiderunt se sub potestate supradicti domni regis et reddiderunt omnes malefactores illos, qui ipsud rebellium maxime terminaverunt, ad occidendum; quod ita et factum est, excepto Widochindo, qui fuga lapsus est partibus Nordmanniae.
     
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    Edition :F. Kurze, Annales regni Francorum inde ab a. 741 usque ad a. 829, qui dicuntur Annales Laurissenses maiores et Einhardi (MGH SS rer. Germ., 6), 1895, 1-178.
     
    Remark :titel: This event is also often called the Massacre of Verden.
     
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    Created at :2021-01-01 : 01:39:57
    Last changed :2022-04-04 : 11:16:09
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00007192
    Static URL :https://ml-s-eris.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/receive/Antiquity_violence_00007192