Widukind
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Widukind Saxon historian: see Wittekind .
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Widukind
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... of the pagan Saxons, the Saxons under Widukind resumed warfare against the Franks. In ... massacre (783) of 4,500 Saxon prisoners. Widukind fled to Denmark, but the Saxons fought ... fiercely. In 785, Charlemagne offered Widukind a safe-conduct in order to negotiate ...
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Widukind, or Wettekind , c.925-c.1004, Saxon historian, a monk, frequently called Wittekind of Corvey. He wrote the Res gestae Saxonicae, a history of the Saxons from earliest times to 997.
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