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The Defender of the Faith in Portugal as well as the Pope rush to the aid of their catholic brethren in the Commonwealth, to defend them against the protesta...
- The Saxons
- Charlemagne
- Early Campaigns & Destruction of Irminsul
- Widukind, Verden Massacre & Saxon Laws
- Rebellion & Deportation
- Conclusion
The Saxons were a Germanic people who settled in the region of Northern Germany at some point prior to the 4th century CE, eventually establishing their provinces of Angria, Eastphalia, and Westphalia in the region that came to be known as Saxony. Their first certain mention in the historical record comes from 356 when they are referenced as pirate...
Charlemagne came to power as co-ruler with his younger brother Carloman I (r. 768-771) upon the death of their father Pepin the Short who had been granted the newly created title King of the Franks by the Church in 751. The Church controlled the reign of Pepin through a document known as the Donation of Constantine, which, it was claimed, had been ...
Charlemagne claimed justification for launching this campaign against the Saxons in retaliation for their destruction of the church at Deventer in 772. It seems clear, however – as Collins notes - that he was going to pursue military action against Saxony in keeping with the policies of Charles Martel, Pepin the Short, and the conversion efforts of...
The Saxons again rose in 776 and were again put down by Charlemagne commanding his troops in person to punish those responsible for the rebellion. Widukind escaped and fled to Denmark where he negotiated an agreement with King Sigfried to allow Saxons to take refuge in his kingdom. This pact opened up an avenue from Saxony to Denmark, which many Sa...
The Saxons rose again in 792, beginning in Westphalia, but this revolt was quickly suppressed. The peace did not last long, however, as another rebellion was launched in 796, which was once again addressed by Charlemagne in person at the head of his troops. As Collins notes, regarding Saxon surrenders and promises of fealty, "Such humiliating submi...
Although Charlemagne seems to have rejected the Donation of Constantine, he clearly patterned his self-image on that of the first Roman emperor to have accepted and validated Christianity, even to the point of naming a city – Karlsburg – after himself just as Constantine had with Constantinople. Christian medieval texts defending Charlemagne reinfo...
- Joshua J. Mark
Saxony is the most densely peopled state of the empire, and indeed of all Europe; the reason is the very large immigration on account of the development of manufactures. In 1910 the population amounted to 5,302,485; of whom 218,033 were Catholics; 4,250,398 Evangelican Lutherans; 14,697 Jews; and a small proportion of other denominations.
Not hard-coded. In my last Brandenburg game, Denmark converted to Reform after the Religious League War. Saxony did convert for Protestantism. England and Scotland stayed Catholic the whole game.
What were the non-theological reasons a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire might have wanted to convert to Lutheranism/Protestantism?
Sep 13, 2021 · The story of how the Anglo-Saxons came to be converted to Christianity begins in Rome, at some point towards the end of the sixth century. A monk named Gregory (who in 590 became Pope Gregory I) was walking through the market when he noticed some unusual-looking boys being sold as slaves.
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Sep 22, 2008 · Jacques Maritain, a French Catholic convert and philosopher who wrote more than 60 books, held that democracy in the modern sense, and a coming together of nations, was the translation of the revealed universal law of Charity into the political realm.
