massacre of Verden

When

Oct 782

Kind

Massacre

Coordinates

52.92° N, 9.23° E

Description

massacre

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

782 killing of Saxons by Charlemagne

The Massacre of Verden was an event during the Saxon Wars where the Frankish king Charlemagne ordered the death of 4,500 Saxons in October 782. Charlemagne claimed suzerainty over Saxony and in 772 destroyed the Irminsul, an important object in Saxon paganism, during his intermittent thirty-year campaign to Christianize the Saxons. The massacre occurred in Verden in what is now Lower Saxony, Germany.

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• Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Massacre of Verden: Charlemagne executes 4,500 rebel Saxons at Verden for practicing paganism”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Karl der Große lässt in Verden an der Aller im Blutgericht von Verden 4500 Geiseln der aufständischen Sachsen hinrichten”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Верденская резня”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Persian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “کشتار وردن: شارلمانی ۴۵۰۰ ساکسون شورشی را به دلیل بت‌پرستی در وردن اعدام کرد”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page