Northmen plunder and devastate the area around Nantes, then sack Angers and Tours, burning down the Abbey of Saint Martin.

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Perpetrator (Group) :	Origin: Northmen/Varangian/Viking Gender: Male, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Frankish Gender: Mixed, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Regino of Prüm, Chronica (Regino) 853Regino of Prüm Chronica (Regino) 853 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Namnetum (Nantes), Juliomagus / Civitas Andecavorum (Angers), Caesarodunum / Civitas Turonorum (Tours)
Time Periode :	Carolingian Period
Century :	A.D. 9
Year :	A.D. 853
Season :	Spring
Context :	plunder sack religious
Motivation :	tactical/strategical economical
Application :	burning
Long-Term Consequence :	destruction/devastation
Original Text :	omnemque circumquaque regionem devastantes primum Andegavensem, deinde Turonicam occupant urbem ac, velut inmanis tempestas cuncta prosternit, ita cuncta consumunt. Templum etiam precellentissimi pontificis Martini incendio cremant.
Translation :	-
Edition :	Reginonis abbatis Prumiensis - Chronica, In: R. Rau, Quellen zur karolingischen Reichsgeschichte 3 (FSGA 7), Darmstadt, 180-318.
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