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[]
Early battles[]
- 28 - Battle of Baduhenna Wood, against the Romans[1]
- ca 400 - Battle of Finnburg, legendary battle of king Finn against the Danes[2]
- ca 525 - , against the Danes[citation needed]
The Age of the Kings[]
- 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[]
- 873 - / against the Vikings.[7]
- 884 - Battle of Norditi, against the Vikings.[8]
- 993 - , rebellion against Arnulf, Count of Holland[9]
- 1018 - Battle of Vlaardingen, Dirk III, Count of Holland against the Holy Roman Emperor[10]
Frisian freedom[]
- 1076 -
- 1151 - , Nordfrisian against the Danes
- 1252 - , against the king of Danmark
- 1254 - , against the knights of Bederkesa and Holsel
- 1256 - , against the count of Holland
- 1282 - , against the count of Holland
- 1297 - , against the count of Holland
- 1340 - Conquest of the by the Wursten Frisians
- 1344 - , against the Danes
- 1345 - Battle of Warns, against the count of Holland
- 1380 - , muontsen fan it kleaster tsjin dy fan it
- 1380 - , House vs. House Tom Brok
- 1392 - Conquest of Ritzebüttel-Cuxhaven castle by the Wursten Frisians
- 1396 - , against the count of Holland
Crusades[]
- 1218 - Fifth Crusade, Frisian crusaders against Damietta
- 1270 - Eighth Crusade, Frisian crusaders against the Moors
Vetkopers and Schieringers[]
- 1397 -
- 1429 -
- 1457 - , against Oldenburg
- 1463 - , battle during the
- 1492 -
The Great Frisian War[]
- 1417 - , against
- 1418 - , Skieringers against Fokko Ukena
- 1419 - , Vetkoppers against
- 1420 - , Sikke Sjaarda against Fokko Ukena
- 1420 - , Schieringers against Fokko Ukena
East Frisia liberty wars[]
- 1426 - Battle of Detern, Fokko Ukena against Okko tom Brok
- 1427 - , Fokko Ukena against Okko tom Brok
- 1433 - , Fokko Ukena against Ulrich Cirksena
Division of Friesland[]
- 1496 - ,
- 1498 - , against Albert III, Duke of Saxony
- 1500 - , against Albert III, Duke of Saxony
- 1514 - , against the count of Bremen ()
Saxon feud[]
- 1514 - , Edzard the Great against the Holy Roman Empire
- 1515-1517 - rebellion of Grutte Pier, against the Dutch and Saxony
- 1517 - , resulting in the death of
- 1524 - , last battle of the against the archbishop of Bremen at Mulsum
Eighty Years' War[]
- 1568 - Battle of Heiligerlee, against the Spanish
- 1568 - , against the Spanish
- 1586 - Battle of Boksum, against the Spanish
References[]
- ^ Cocceianus, Cassius Dio (1917). "LIV". Dio's Roman History. VI. Translated by Carl, Earnest. London: William Heinemann. p. 365.
- ^ Mackie, W. S. (April 1917). "The Fight at Finnsburg". The Fight at Finnsburg. 16 (2): 250–273. JSTOR 27700806.
- ^ Rogers, Clifford J. (2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. 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.
Categories:
- Lists of battles
- Wars involving Frisia
- History of Friesland