Daily Medieval

Widukind (seen here as a memorial in Hereford, Germany) was a Saxon leader who organized the chief opposition to Charlemagne's conquest...

The Saxon Wars (see Part 1 ) were a series of campaigns led by Charlemagne to incorporate and Christianize Saxony. A first phase was complet...

In January of 772CE, a church in Deventer in the Netherlands was sacked and burned by Saxons who objected to missionary work in their lands....

Charlemagne is a known and respected figure in history, his reign establishing a re-birth of arts and education among the Franks, uniting mu...

Much is made of Charlemagne and his unification and christianization of much of Western Europe. What is the other side of the story, however...