Hasting

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Hasting during the attack on Luna : With the request for a Christian burial for their allegedly deceased leader, the Vikings entered the fortified city. In the church, Hasting jumped out of the coffin and killed the bishop. Luna was sacked and pillaged (859).
Breton King Solomon (right) with Normans, whose leader (left) could represent Hasting

Hasting (* between 810 and 820; † around 900) or Hastein (also Hásteinn, Haastén, Haesten, Hæsten, Haestenn, Hæstenn, Haesting, Hæsting, Anstign, Anstignus, Alsting, Afflengo or Hastingo ) was a Danish Viking chief and Leader of the Loire Normans in the 9th century. Like his brother Björn Eisseite , he is said to have been a son of the legendary King Ragnar Lodbrok . According to tradition, Hasting was at least Bjorn's mentor or teacher.

Life

Hasting was first mentioned in connection with raids on the Île de Noirmoutier in 834 and on Amboise in 838. In the years that followed, the Loire-Normans under Hastings' leadership, despite a defeat at Messac (843), repeatedly attacked Nantes , Angers , Tours , Orléans and numerous other towns in western France along the Loire , Charente , Garonne , Dordogne , etc. He also participated in the raids of the Seine-Normans on the cities along the Seine .

Together with his brother Björn, he operated in Galicia, Andalusia in 844 and 859–861 and even undertook Viking raids into the Mediterranean . In alliance with the Breton Salomon , Hasting defeated the West Franks under Robert the Brave in the Battle of Brissarthe in 866 and occupied Angers for a year from 872–873 , but was defeated in 879 by the West Franconian King Karlmann on the Vienne , a tributary of the Loire.

After an agreement with Karlmann's brother Ludwig III. Hasting left 882 the Loire and was with the Duke of Chartres invested . Whether he had to convert to Christianity, at least formally , is a matter of dispute. He soon sold the fiefdom to the king to finance attacks against Brittany . First the north coast of Brittany was attacked, in 886 Nantes was conquered. Allied with the Seine-Normans, the Loire-Normans also occupied western Brittany in 887, were defeated by the Bretons under Alain I in 888 and 890 and had to give up Nantes. Hasting then left Brittany and western France and in 892 led part of the Loire-Normans to England against Alfred von Wessex . Once again as a feudal man of the French king, Hasting is mentioned for the last time in 896, when unsuccessful attempts were made to fight the Seine-Normans under Rollo .

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  1. ↑ Storia della famiglia Natoli . Scipione Ammirato, p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Hasting
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hastein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish Viking
DATE OF BIRTH before 834
DATE OF DEATH after 896