Charlemagne's Wars // Gudfred: King of the Danes (804-810) 

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Interesting and elaborate video. Charlemagne was actually quite renowned in Norway for his military prowess in the middle ages. The last viking king (born after the viking age, but definitely a viking), and grandson of famous viking Harald Hardrada, was named after him, King Magnus I Barefoot, from Karla Magnus. The names Magnus and Magne, as a result, are very common names in Norway to this day. Nobody asked for this information, but here it is.

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The irony... Later, the Saxon guy Otto the Great, creates the HRE, becoming a successor to Charlemagne's empire.

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So interesting. We often think of the Viking age as starting with Lindesfarn, and suppose no one had ever heard of the northmen until then, but for centuries before, the wars between the Franks, Saxxons, Frisians, Angles, and Danes, and their settlements, defined northern Europe. The history of Frisia, though glanced over here, is particularly interesting to me. Caught between the Franks and Danes, they were repeatedly subjugated. It is interesting that not too far down the road, Ragnar's son Uber was known as the duke of Frisia. And interesting that the practice of buying off Danes to protect the northern coasts of Frisia and Frankia was already a successful strategy in the days of Charlemagne.

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One mistake, Denmark had extensive contact with the roman world and archeology shows proof of danes having served as mercenaries and even generals in the roman army, despite never being conquered.

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Great video . Its awesome that someone woud make about King gudfred or Godfred as we call him danish . I am a dane myself and a huge history geek . So yes I read about Godfreds campaings already as teenager . The attack on Lindisfarne in 793 was carried out norwegian vikings . But with Godfred , Denmark also started to really enter the viking age . Soon danish viking attacks woud be plague upon europe . Heck even after Charlemagnes death . His Capital of Aachen woud be attacked and plundered by a danish viking Army ... And another thing in your video are also true . By Godfreds time . Denmark was a series of different kingdoms . And leaders were elected by reputation . But contacts with Franks and later the holy roman Empire chanced Denmark and the viking World . By 965 Denmark was United as a single nation under King Harold Bluetoth . As in Harolds time . Viking Kings ruled because they had a right to throne and because of their Royal blood . So Danish Kings and other Scandinavian mornarcs copied what they seen in other European Christian Nations (like France, Germany England etc) . Harold was also the first Christian King of Denmark .

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Great background music! Looking forward to the rest of the Charlemagne's Wars... Liked the art you showed, would like to see what made Charlemagne's army successful.

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20:18 minutes OF EXCELLENT HISTORY

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This was really good. And helpful for my personal genealogy research (Frisia)

Yes you did it . Hallo from Denmark again . I newer knew you a video about Gudfred or Godfred as we Call him in danish . But he the recorded King in Denmark . There was King Sigfred before him . Sigfred supported the saxon rebillion against the franks . And the saxon rebel leader widukind actully fleed the Denmark many times . According to the viking sagas . Sigfred had become by defeating the legendary King Harold wartoth (Harald Hildetand in danish ) in battle.Harald Wartoth was killed in that battle . And Sigfred became King . But he dies around 804. And thats when Godfred appears in Frankish sources as King .... But he must have a powerfull in Jutland . Because around the same time . And canal for ships was dug at at Island of Samsø.(it was later found by modern archaeologist). And that canal coud only have been built/dug on the orders of Gudfred/ Godfred . So even though Denmark woud not be unified in single nation untill Jelling /Knytlinga dynasty under King Harold Bluetoth in 965. There was already a strong central power ruling in Jutland around the early viking age . And thats was Gudfred/Godfred ... So already in the early viking age . Parts of Denmark(in this case Jutland ) was already the rule of powerfull Kings . And I am s Jute myself . I Live in northen Jutland . Outside The town were I was born(I live in the Aalborg today further noth from my chilhood town ) there is the remains if one of Harold Bluetoth’s ringfortreses . So vikings and the viking age has been close to me all my life . But for us danes . The viking age are part of our countrys history and cultural herritage .

I very much enjoyed the video. You left us with a cliffhanger there though :D Planning on doing one on Brian Boru eventually as well?

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Charlemagne=reason for the Viking age

Hi, amazing video! Could there be a video about Charlemagne and the muslims coming from the south? Thank you! Loving the videos!

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2nd vid of yours I've watched today. You are just blowing my mind!🤯 I have just started my geneological search so I am still learning alot, but I was really shocked about Charlagmange attacking the Sachsens (from which the name Saxon derives). I thought they must have been friends being that Charlagmange (whom I am descended of twice) married his son Peppin to King Sachsen's (King of Bavaria) (whom I am also descended of twice) daughter Judith. Also, I was surprised to see on your map of Denmark the town of Lund. Lund was my Father's mother's maiden name. She was 1st gen born in America, both of her parents have coming from Odense, Denmark. I had no idea there was a Lund, Denmark!!!!

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As mentioned but worth repeating: the Viking attacks such as on Lindisfarne were not random brutality but along a continuum that could be interpreted as pre-emptive or revenge for attacks against the "wretched heathens" to the north of the Franks.

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History Time, it would be nice to see some videos about the Frigian and Saxon wars. The People Profiles channel seems to be somewhat close to Biographics, a channel I'm currently watching. I will definitely check it out to see what is all about.

Great video, enjoyed it thoroughly. Just curious, but do you think you'll ever cover the stories about Ragnar Lodbrok? Rolf The Walker (Rollo)? Ivaar The Boneless? Or what about the events at Lindisfarne? Would love to see you cover some of these in the future if you have the time, but nonetheless keep up the great work.

Awesome video now viking invansions made some sence to me

The Danes know about romes and other cultures; we fund lot of old wartools from the rome a long before the vikinge age - but nice dokumentary :)

Real nice video :) One thing, though. Archaeology over the past 20 yrs has firmly established that Scandinavians were in much more close contact with the roman empire than previously believed. Many graves have shown the occupier to have been a roman soldier, especially in the period 200 to 500 CE.

"I'm not coming to spread peace, but the sword" - Jesus You got yourself a new subscriber, a thumbs up for your knowledge about this, that I have to admit is the most interesting period in European History. Did the rumor spread among the Norse of Karl "the great", from his blatant disrespect for their most holy sites in Saksland (Saxony), where they had their traditional trade route from the Roman Era via the Germanic Peoples, did they hear tales about how Thunors Oak was cut down by a priest and it's timber used to build a church and how they had defiled Irminsul. Did the massacres of those clinging to the old ways, send a tremor among the whole Norse story-telling society and make them band together and strike (Lindisfarne, "The Holy Island" and Iona, the two most holy places of equal fame as Thunors Oak and irminsul - coincidence? What reason should they have to suddenly hate Christians so much? The British Isles had converted peacefully, by missionaries, rather then the sword) before becoming subjugated part by part by themselves? Do you have any clear evidence of exactly what the Irminsul was? I have my guess it was a very old Yew tree. An evergreen that a father could say to his son had been the same when his great-grandfather was as old as him since they grow slowly and potentially for thousands of years. There's a saying about that the bowmaker had a short life, and this was due to the very toxic needles, bark, and wood of the tree, that later gave the famous victories in the 100 Years War with common Brits using yew longbows to cut down the flowers of the French nobility, with heavy cavalry. The coast of Europe was virtually deforested and made the tree close to extinct since there was a tax of a certain amount of yew stocks in order to enter a harbor in England. I have read somewhere that it was used in mass-suicides by Celts preferring death to Roman slavery, so this life and death symbology was probably not lost on the old priestesses. There's a rune of its own in Proto-Germanic that just means "Yew". Also outside the Temple at Upsala, there were said to be growing a tree. It might be that Yggdrasil is based on the Irminsul. A bow made of yew also in Norse militaristic culture was not just a simple "bogi", but a Y-bogi (yew-bow), and cost A LOT and is THE BEST to this day of self-bows.

Great channel. I found out recently from a Danish history channel that Charlemagne had the 4000 Saxons baptised and then slaughtered them , with the Danes looking on from the Danne Virke . So they fought him off and more or less deliberately sailed off to attack the Monasteries . Before that , for hundreds of years they had traded quite peacefully with the British Isles .

Brilliant video! Could anyone tell me where I can read the full accounts/sources of Charlemagne's chroniclers?

Awesome. You should do a video on the Merovingian Franks and Clovis

Thank Goodness for REAL HISTORY RU-vidrs! You Guys Rock! Has the so-called History channel changed their name yet? If not, what should it be called nowadays?

Åhh, Godfred (Gudfred, Gøtrik eller Gudrød)* Konge af Danmark! *As we say in Denmark: Kært barn har mange navne :)

Excellent video. This period of history fascinates me. I have my own hypothesis on the spread of the Viking war machine, but Charlemagnes push in to NW Germany certainly made the "Vikings" become more militaristic, and the Vikings attacks on Christianitys holy sites wasn't a coincidence or greedy need for gold.

If only he had really said, “ let my armies be like the rocks and the trees, and the birds in the sky!”

HEAVY!!!! Gotta be my favorite one so far. That was sssso intense l heard the wood of the forest trees creak & faint clanks of Iron swords & chainmail

Please do a vedio on the goths, Roman empire during the migration period and early middle ages

why we never heard about this slavic tribes in history such as veleti and Obotrites

It just kills me that we can't watch video from these times. It would be so awesome to see a relative traveling around. My mother is pure Dane so I'm sure I have Viking relatives.

I just think it's cool Good Fredrick was eventually translated into Gotfried.

Really big like. Really Vitukind onse really was saved by danish king, and that why he was able to rise a revolt in 782, and gloriously win a Zuntel battle in 783

These 2 great Kings both got taken out by their own people. Damn.

The golden Charlemagne head...the Burger King dude...anybody else notice they look EXACTLY alike???? Now I want a Whopper🍔

Can you do a video on the frisians?

Godfred was the only king of the Danes at the time, the Frankish sources lists those magnates that signed a peace treaty in 808 or 810(I forget which and my books are packed away for a move), and they represent the entity of medieval Denmark; IE including what is today southern Sweden.

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What is the title of the first track at the beginning of the video? It's not Kevin MacLeod - Lost Time, I can't seem to find it? Any information please? I quite like it very much as a background, it gives the videos a very melodramatic meaning.

Charlemagne: Here's my god of love. Accept him and be blessed. Germanic tribes: No thanks. We'll stick with our own gods, thank you. Charlemagne: Kill them all for rejecting my god of love!