Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . e great leader of the Westphalians, started forth from his retreat in Den-mark and stimulated all Saxony to a renewed contest. The time was wellchosen. Witikind, who appears to have been as superior to the generals ofCharlemagne as he was inferior to the king himself, gave the Pranks a completeoverthrow. When these tidings were brought to Charlemagne, he returned in all haste tothe northern frontiers. The scene was at once reversed. Cowed by his
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . e great leader of the Westphalians, started forth from his retreat in Den-mark and stimulated all Saxony to a renewed contest. The time was wellchosen. Witikind, who appears to have been as superior to the generals ofCharlemagne as he was inferior to the king himself, gave the Pranks a completeoverthrow. When these tidings were brought to Charlemagne, he returned in all haste tothe northern frontiers. The scene was at once reversed. Cowed by his namealone, they had recourse, as usual, to submission, guaranteed by oaths which theynever meant to keep, and by hostages who did not hesitate to incur the fatalpenalty attached to the certain faithlessness of their countrymen. But this timethe king would listen to no terms short of ample vengeance. He demanded thatfour thousand of the most hostile and turbulent should be delivered up to of whom he had executed in one day, in order to do by intimidation what hehad failed to do by kindness. His severity, however, failed in producing the. im repeated defeats, presented themselves with their wives ,ues and battles, wH^ mi;,.l,t appear sufficient to have, of any one man, C!. retained in his own hands nment of the state. The local administration was distributed provincial on.,,.; of a county. ^..re the judges of the )..within their jurisdiction. To secure th Hiikes and Counts, c^^^n >int in visitatio^- ^-great ecclesiastical qiicrown, either the kintr hii Spain nextArabs, but the ?(? ?>._, iand Ibn al Arabi, a Dukes, each of them having ers were the Counts, who, rity to decide and punish i tnance duties by le o{ Mibsi Dominici, uujiMi. into their conduct. In _, the more powerful vassals of the • count of his palace, sat as judge. That country had been subdued by the•:]ucrors quarrelled among themselves, ^^111 aid of Charlemagne, who marchedthither, and be
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