Imperial Assembly 782

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The Frankish Imperial Assembly in 782 took place near the Lippequellen . Bad Lippspringe or the not far away Paderborn with its Palatinate come into question as a precise location . The Franconian county constitution was introduced in Saxony at the assembly . It is possible that the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae was announced there.

prehistory

At the Imperial Assembly in 777 in Paderborn, the apparently pacified Saxony was divided into mission areas and it was there that Charlemagne's campaign to Spain was possibly decided. During his absence it became clear that the Saxons were by no means subjugated; rather, in 778, under the leadership of Widukind, there was an uprising against the Frankish rule. After his return from Spain, Charlemagne led a campaign as far as the Weser in 779 and another as far as the Elbe in 780 .

The country seemed to be subject again. A synod took place near the Lippequellen in 780 as part of an imperial assembly that issued prayer regulations to combat a famine. The mission areas were redefined at the Reich Assembly itself.

course

In 782 another imperial assembly took place at the Lippequellen. Allegedly all Saxons except Widukind appeared at this. This time it was about the secular classification of the conquered area in the Frankish system of rule . In Saxony, as the older research put it, the county constitution was introduced. The area was divided into counties. According to the Lorsch annals, the counts mostly came from the Saxon nobility.

It is often assumed that the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae were also decided upon at the meeting. In these, among other things, with the help of sometimes draconian punishments, Christianity was to be helped to breakthrough and paganism to be pushed back. With these measures Charlemagne tried to systematically destroy the previous political and legal structure of the Saxons.

A delegation from the Danish King Sigifrid was also present at the Imperial Assembly. This is remarkable because Widukind found refuge in Denmark. It stands to reason that the negotiations concerned the extradition of Widukind. It is unclear whether the Danish king agreed to this and therefore Widukind returned to Saxony in the same year. A delegation of the Avars was there to negotiate about peace.

consequences

A short time later, the battle of the Süntel showed that the Saxons had still not been defeated, and that same year the Verden blood judgment took place . The war intensified and was only over in 785.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Synod in Lippspringe 779/80
  2. ^ Lutz E. von Padberg: On the tension between gentilism and the Christian ideal of universality in the empire of Charlemagne . In: Charlemagne and the legacy of cultures. Berlin 2001, p. 43.
  3. ^ Volker Helten: Between Cooperation and Confrontation: Denmark and the Franconian Empire in the 9th Century. Cologne 2011, p. 24.
  4. ↑ Walter Pohl : The Avars. A steppe people in Central Europe 567-822 AD Munich 2002, p. 314.

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literature

  • Caspar Ehlers : The integration of Saxony into the Frankish empire (751-1024). Göttingen 2007
  • Knut Schäferdiek: Sources for the Christianization of the Saxons. Leipzig 2010 pp. 27–31
  • Saxon Wars. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 26. Berlin 2004, p. 57.

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