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Dec 26, 2017 · Viking Siege: Directed by Jack Burton. With Michelle McTernan, Sarah Driver, James Groom, Adam McNab. During a wild night of debauchery, a gang of vengeful women plot to massacre a monastery full of corrupt monks who sold their loved ones as slaves.
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The Great Viking Siege of Paris - Warfare History Network. A mighty Viking fleet sailed up the Seine River and laid siege to Paris in 885. The Franks desperately needed good leadership, and two heroic men filled the void. This article appears in: Spring 2020. By Victor Kamenir.
- Charlemagne & The Saxon Wars
- The Siege of Paris 845 CE
- The Siege of Paris 885-886 CE
- Rollo & The Treaty
- The Raids in Vikings & Legacy
Charlemagne spent the greater part of his reign in military conquest, consolidating his power and that of the church. His campaigns against the people of Saxony were especially brutal and epitomized by the Massacre of Verden in 782 CE when he had 4,200 Saxons executed; an event remarked on even by his own Frankish historians who struggled to cast i...
The first significant Viking raid came in May of 841 CE, a year after Louis I's death, when the Viking chief Asgeir sacked and burned Rouen and looted the Monastery of Fontenelle and the Abbey of Saint-Denis. The amount of plunder and the number of captives taken was significant. Those prisoners whose families or friends could pay the Vikings a ran...
The Vikings were back in the region in 851-852 CE under the leadership of Asgeir who looted and plundered at will from a base they established at Rouen. Charles the bald alternately fought or tried to negotiate with the raiders but with little success. In c. 858 CE Bjorn Ironside, supposed son of Ragnar Lothbrok, and the Viking chief Hastein (also ...
Following the Siege of Paris 885-886 CE, Rollo remained in West Francia raiding up and down the Seine. Commanders under Charles the Simple made some gains in 897-898 CE in defeating the Vikings but they could not dislodge them or stop the raids. Recognizing that there was no hope of military supremacy over his opponents, Charles proposed a deal to ...
The Viking raids on Paris are depicted in the TV series Vikingsin which Ragnar Lothbrok assaults the city and takes it (Season 3) and Rollo later defends it (Season 4). The series is entertainment, not history, and so takes liberties with the known facts to achieve its ends. The raid led by Ragnar as depicted in the show has little in common with R...
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Siege of Paris, (November 25, 885–October 886), nearly year-long Viking siege of Paris, at the time the capital of the kingdom of the West Franks, notable as the first occasion on which the Vikings dug themselves in for a long siege rather than conduct a hit-and-run raid or fight a battle.
The siege of Paris of 885–886 was part of a Viking raid on the Seine, in the Kingdom of the West Franks. The siege was the most important event of the reign of Charles the Fat, and a turning point in the fortunes of the Carolingian dynasty and the history of France.
- 25 November 885-October 886
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Apr 9, 2022 · Any complete Viking or Frankish history includes a section for each of the major Norse sieges of Paris. However, few have thoroughly investigated why the sieges were successful each time. A study in that vein actually proves quite revealing. The Frankish kingdom of 845 was one fractured by civil warfare between Charlemagne’s three grandsons.
During a wild night of debauchery, a gang of vengeful women plot to massacre a monastery full of corrupt monks who sold their loved ones as slaves. Their plan comes unstuck when a gang of marauding Vikings arrive with an army of vicious, tree-like demons on their tail.. Videos: Trailers, Teasers, Featurettes. Cast. Michelle McTernan. Aetheled.
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