The Battle of Riade was fought between the East Franks and the Magyars at an unidentified location in northern Thuringia along the river Unstrut on 15 March 933. East ( ern) Francia ( Regnum Francorum orientalium) known variously as Francia Orientalis or the Kingdom of the East Franks, was the Hungarians (or Magyars, magyarok are an Ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. The Free State of Thuringia (Freistaat Thüringen is located in central Germany. The Unstrut is a River in Germany, left tributary of the Saale. Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Events By Place Europe Cotentin and Jersey are seized by William Longsword, Duke of Normandy. The battle was precipitated by the decision of the Synod of Erfurt to stop paying an annual tribute to the Magyras in 932. The Synod (or Council) of Erfurt was a church council held at Erfurt in northeastern Thuringia under the presidency of Henry The battle was a morale-boosting victory for the East Franks.
In 924, a Magyar army defeated King Henry I in the field, but a captured prince allowed Henry to negotiate for terms; a truce of nine years, during which annual tribute was required of the Germans, was declared in 926. [1] During the truce, Henry reorganised the defences of the Duchy of Saxony. The mediæval Duchy of Saxony was a late Early Middle Ages "Carolingian Stem duchy " covering the greater part of Northern Germany. At an assembly (926), Henry secured the construction of new castles and the authorisation of a new form of garrison duty: the soldiery were organised into groups of nine agrarii milites (farmer-soldiers), one of which was doing guard duty at any given time while the other eight worked the fields. [2] In time of invasion, all nine could man the castles. After he believed the necessary reforms had been made, Henry secured the support of the church in reneging on tribute payments in 932.
In preparation for the campaign, Henry levied mounted contingents from every region and duchy of Germany, though only Flodoard of Reims records the Bavarian presence. The Kingdom of Germany grew out of East Francia in the tenth century Flodoard (894&ndash966 was a French Chronicler. He was born at Épernay, and educated at Reims in the cathedral school which had been established The following is a list of rulers during the History of Bavaria. [3] According to Widukind of Corvey, the Magyar forces readily fled at the coming of Henry's cavalry and the victorious German troops declared Henry emperor on the battlefield. Widukind of Corvey was a Saxon historical chronicler named after (and possibly a descendant of the Saxon duke and national hero Widukind who had battled Charlemagne [4]
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- Reuter, Timothy. Timothy Alan Reuter ( January 25 1947 – October 14 2002) grandson of the former mayor of Berlin Ernst Reuter, was a German- Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056. New York: Longman, 1991.
- Bernhardt, John W. Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, c. 936–1075. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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