Widukind, also known as Wittekind and Wittikund, [1] was a leader of the Saxons and the chief opponent of the Frankish king Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars from 777 to 785. Charlemagne ultimately prevailed, organized Saxony as a Frankish province, massacred thousands of Saxon nobles, and ordered conversions of the pagan Saxons to Christianity .

…unity under the leadership of Widukind, who succeeded longer than any other leader in holding together a majority of chieftains in armed resistance to the Franks. Ultimately, internal feuding led to the capitulation even of Widukind.

NARRATOR: Widukind was a very courageous man in the Middle Ages. He lived at the end of the eighth century in what is now northwest Germany and was the leader of the Saxons. During the wars against the Franks, which are called the Saxon Wars, he didn't acquiesce. He was a rebel.

2024年9月30日 · Widukind (Modern German: Widuking or Wittekind) was a Germanic religious as well as the political and military leader of the pagan old Saxons and the chief opponent of the Frankish king Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars from 777 to 785. Charlemagne insisted that the Saxons forcibly convert to Christianity.

Widukind, Saxon leader, one of the heads of the Westphalian nobility, was the moving spirit in the struggles of the Saxons for their independence and heathen faith. The Frankish accounts of the Saxon wars, colored by national feeling, give only an out-line of Widukind’s character.

The name Widukind (VEE-doo-kihnt) first appears in history texts as the leader of a rapidly growing Saxon uprising in Westphalia in approximately 774. Unlike other Saxon military leaders, Widukind refused to accept baptism and take an oath of …

Saxon leader, and one of the heads of the Westphalian nobility. He was the moving spirit in the struggles of the Saxons for their independence and heathen faith. The Frankish accounts of the Saxon wars, coloured by national feeling, give only an outline of Widukind's character. After ...

When Charlemagne was in Spain in 778, Widukind came back and, trusting to the Saxon love of independence, organized a war of revenge. Saxon hordes plundered and devastated the region of the middle Rhine, and even threatened Fulda, so that …

2022年1月26日 · Widukind’s legend was unfortunately co-opted by the Nazis in the 1930s and the Saxon hero was proclaimed a symbol of the perfect race-warrior in their warped theories. Widukind was held up as a noble champion of pure Aryan blood, defending his people against pollution by ‘lesser races’.

Widukind of Corvey (c. 925 – after 973; German: Widukind von Corvey, in italian Vitichindo Sacco di Corvey, in Latin VVITICHINDI SAXO) was a medieval Saxon chronicler. His three-volume Res gestae Saxonicae sive annalium libri tres is an important chronicle of 10th-century Germany during the rule of the Ottonian dynasty.