Terme de Glossaire

Saxons

A Germanic people established on the shores of the North Sea and in North West Germany. In the 3rd and 4th centuries they ravaged the coasts of Gaul and Great Britain; in the middle of the following century, certain of them conquered, along with the Angles, the eastern part of the British isle today called ‘England.’ Charlemagne set out to bring to heel the Saxons who remained in Germania: from 772 until 804 he carried out hand in hand military expeditions and forced Christianisation.

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