Because the Saxons had mistreated the Franks, and because he wanted Christianity to become the dominant religion.
Visigoths
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Several Germanic tribes and the Alans (who were Iranian speakers) contributed to the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire (which is what the term fall of Rome refers to). In continental Europe they were: the Vandals, Sueves, Alemanni, Burgundians and Visigoths. On Britain they were the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians.
tonbridge,kent,england but they never invaded Scotland ,Wales and cornwall.
He defeated the pagan saxons and converted them to christianity, and he also defeated the Avars in 791.
Charlemagne Defeated the Saxons and then converted many of them over to Christianity. He also became emperor after his father Pippin died.
Saxons were/are from Saxony. Anglo-Saxons are in the Uk, a combination of the Saxons and the Angles.
The Saxons. When the Saxons invaded England, the English lost, then the Saxons and the English came together to be the Anglo-Saxons.
No they are not, the vikings fought the Saxons. The Saxons were the English.
The pagan Anglo-Saxons invasion of Britain in the 5th-7th Centuries put an end to Christianity brought by the Romans. The Anglo-Saxons were later converted by Celtic and Scottish missionaries, most notably St Augustine the first Archbishop of Canterbury.
It comes from the Saxons: Wessex (West-Saxons), Sussex (South-Saxons), Middlesex (Middle Saxons), Essex (East-Saxons).
The Anglo-Saxons.
Anglo-Saxons.
Anglo-Saxons
Angalo-Saxons.
The Angels and the Saxons are known as the Anglo-Saxons. Angles, not Angels! !