List of Frisian battles
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This is a list of battles and wars of Frisia or Friesland.
The historical context is as follows:
- 600-734 Frisian Dukes
- 734-1156 Frankish rule
- 1156-1498 time of Frisian freedom
- 1498-1744 rule by dukes and Stadtholders.
List[edit]
Early battles[edit]
- 28 - Battle of Baduhenna Wood, against the Romans[1]
- ca 450 - Battle of Finnburg, legendary battle of king Finn against the Danes[2]
- ca 525 - Battle on the Rhine, against the Danes[citation needed]
The Age of the Kings[edit]
- Frisian–Frankish wars
- 689 - Battle of Dorestad[3]
- 716 - Battle of Cologne[4]
- 716 - Battle of Amblève[5]
- 734 - Battle of the Boarn[6]
The Age of the Franks[edit]
- 873 - Battle of Dokkum / Battle of Oostergo against the Vikings.[7]
- 884 - Battle of Norditi, against the Vikings.[8]
- 993 - Battle of Winkel, rebellion against Arnulf, Count of Holland[9]
- 1018 - Battle of Vlaardingen, Dirk III, Count of Holland against the Holy Roman Emperor[10]
Frisian freedom[edit]
- 1076 - Battle of Iselmonde
- 1151 - Battle of Mildeburch, Nordfrisian against the Danes
- 1252 - Battle of Oldenswort, against the king of Danmark
- 1254 - Battle of Sieverner Specken, against the knights of Bederkesa and Holsel
- 1256 - Battle of Heechwâld, against the count of Holland
- 1282 - Battle of Schellinkhout, against the count of Holland
- 1297 - Battle of Froanen, against the count of Holland
- 1340 - Conquest of the Sibetsburg by the Wursten Frisians
- 1344 - Battle of Langsundtoft, against the Danes
- 1345 - Battle of Warns, against the count of Holland
- 1380 - Battle of Arum, muontsen fan it kleaster Ludingatsjerke tsjin dy fan it Aldekleaster
- 1380 - Battle of Loppersum, House Abdena vs. House Tom Brok
- 1392 - Conquest of Ritzebüttel-Cuxhaven castle by the Wursten Frisians
- 1396 - Battle of Schoterzijl, against the count of Holland
Crusades[edit]
- 1218 - Fifth Crusade, Frisian crusaders against Damietta
- 1270 - Eighth Crusade, Frisian crusaders against the Moors
Vetkopers and Schieringers[edit]
- 1397 - Battle op de Menamer-mieden
- 1429 - Battle of Sondel
- 1457 - Battle of Westerstede, against Oldenburg
- 1463 - Battle of Mounesyl, battle during the Donia war
- 1492 - Battle of Barrahuis
The Great Frisian War[edit]
- 1417 - Battle of Okswerderzijl, Sikke Sjaarda against Keno II tom Brok
- 1418 - Battle of Dokkum, Skieringers against Fokko Ukena
- 1419 - Battle of Miedum, Vetkoppers against Sikke Sjaarda
- 1420 - Battle near the Paelesleat, Sikke Sjaarda against Fokko Ukena
- 1420 - Battle of Sloten, Schieringers against Fokko Ukena
East Frisia liberty wars[edit]
- 1426 - Battle of Detern, Fokko Ukena against Okko tom Brok
- 1427 - Battle of the Wild Fields, Fokko Ukena against Okko tom Brok
- 1433 - Battle of Bargebur, Fokko Ukena against Ulrich Cirksena
Division of Friesland[edit]
- 1496 - Battle of Sleat,
- 1498 - Battle of Laaxum, against Albert III, Duke of Saxony
- 1500 - Battle of Bomstersyl, against Albert III, Duke of Saxony
- 1514 - Battle of Hartwarden, against the count of Bremen (Christopher the Spendthrift of Brunswick and Lunenburg (Wolfenbüttel))
Saxon feud[edit]
- 1514 - Battle of Appingedam, Edzard the Great against the Holy Roman Empire
- 1515-1517 - rebellion of Grutte Pier, against the Dutch and Saxony
- 1517 - Battle of the Wremer Djip, resulting in the death of Tjede Peckes
- 1524 - Battle of Mulsum, last battle of the Land of Wursten against the archbishop of Bremen at Mulsum
Eighty Years' War[edit]
- 1568 - Battle of Heiligerlee, against the Spanish
- 1568 - Battle of Jemgum, against the Spanish
- 1586 - Battle of Boksum, against the Spanish
References[edit]
- ^ Cocceianus, Cassius Dio (1917). "LIV". Dio's Roman History. Vol. VI. Translated by Carl, Earnest. London: William Heinemann. p. 365. ISBN 9780674990920.
- ^ Mackie, W. S. (April 1917). "The Fight at Finnsburg". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 16 (2): 250–273. JSTOR 27700806.
- ^ Rogers, Clifford J. (2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. Vol. I. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. p. 543. ISBN 9780195334036.
- ^ Military, Kennedy Hickman (13 January 2019). "What You Should Know About Charles Martel". ThoughtCo. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
- ^ Grossman, Mark (2007). World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Infobase Publishing. p. 64. ISBN 9780816074778.
- ^ Mol, Hans (2004). "De dood van Bonifatius: gevolg van een verkeerde kersteningsstrategie?". Fryslân. 10 (4): 16–20.
- ^ Lewis, Stephen (2016). "Rodulf and Ubba. In search of a Frisian-Danish Viking". Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research. 40: 11.
- ^ Choudhary, Vaibhav (13 March 2017). "Viking Age". Human History in Brief. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
- ^ Bachrach, Bernard S.; Bachrach, David S.; Leese, Michael (2018). Deeds of the Bishops of Cambrai, Translation and Commentary. Oxford, New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781317036210.
- ^ Nieuwenhuijsen, Kees (2010). "De Slag bij Vlaardingen (1018)". Terra Nigra. 176: 32–50.