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Widukind, also
known as
Wittekind and Wittikund, was a
leader of the
Saxons and the
chief opponent of the
Frankish king
Charlemagne during the
Saxon Wars...
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Widukind of
Corvey (c. 925 –
after 973; German:
Widukind von Corvey) was a
medieval Saxon chronicler. His three-volume Res
gestae Saxonicae sive annalium...
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signifies universal all-sustaining pillar.
Clive Tolley has
argued that
Widukind of
Corvey in a p****age of his
Deeds of the
Saxons (c. 970) is in fact describing...
- the
Saxon chief Widukind,
leader of the
resistance against Charlemagne, fled
Saxony in the face of the
Frankish onslaught.
Widukind found refuge with...
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Widukind Lenz (4
February 1919,
Eichenau – 25
February 1995) was a
distinguished German pediatrician,
medical geneticist and
dysmorphologist who was among...
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domains as soon as he
turned his
attention elsewhere.
Their main leader,
Widukind, was a
resilient and
resourceful opponent, but
eventually was defeated...
- a three-volume
chronicle of 10th-century Germany,
written by
Widukind of Corvey.
Widukind,
proud of his
people and history,
begins his chronicon, not with...
- death—four
thousand and five
hundred of them. This
sentence was
carried out.
Widukind was not
among them
since he had fled to
Nordmannia [Denmark]. When he had...
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complete control of Westphalia. That summer, he met
Widukind and
convinced him to end his resistance.
Widukind agreed to be
baptized with
Charlemagne as his...
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because medieval writers such as
Widukind of
Corvey and Adam of
Bremen give
conflicting accounts of how it came about.
Widukind of Corvey,
writing during the...
