List of Frisian battles

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 - Battle on the Rhine, against the Danes

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 - Battle of Dokkum / Battle of Oostergo against the Vikings.[7]
• 884 - Battle of Norditi, against the Vikings.[8]
• 993 - Battle of Winkel, 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 - Battle of Iselmonde
• 1151 - Battle of Mildeburch, Nordfrisian against the Danes
• 1252 - Battle of Oldenswort, against the king of Danmark
• 1254 - Battle of Sieverner Specken, against the knights of Bederkesa and Holsel
• 1256 - Battle of Heechwâld, against the count of Holland
• 1282 - Battle of Schellinkhout, against the count of Holland
• 1297 - Battle of Froanen, against the count of Holland
• 1340 - Conquest of the Sibetsburg by the Wursten Frisians
• 1344 - Battle of Langsundtoft, against the Danes
• 1345 - Battle of Warns, against the count of Holland
• 1380 - Battle of Arum, muontsen fan it kleaster Ludingatsjerke tsjin dy fan it Aldekleaster
• 1380 - Battle of Loppersum, House Abdena vs. House Tom Brok
• 1392 - Conquest of Ritzebüttel-Cuxhaven castle by the Wursten Frisians
• 1396 - Battle of Schoterzijl, 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 - Battle op de Menamer-mieden
• 1429 - Battle of Sondel
• 1457 - Battle of Westerstede, against Oldenburg
• 1463 - Battle of Mounesyl, battle during the Donia war
• 1492 - Battle of Barrahuis

The Great Frisian War

• 1417 - Battle of Okswerderzijl, Sikke Sjaarda against Keno II tom Brok
• 1418 - Battle of Dokkum, Skieringers against Fokko Ukena
• 1419 - Battle of Miedum, Vetkoppers against Sikke Sjaarda
• 1420 - Battle near the Paelesleat, Sikke Sjaarda against Fokko Ukena
• 1420 - Battle of Sloten, Schieringers against Fokko Ukena

East Frisia liberty wars

• 1426 - Battle of Detern, Fokko Ukena against Okko tom Brok
• 1427 - Battle of the Wild Fields, Fokko Ukena against Okko tom Brok
• 1433 - Battle of Bargebur, Fokko Ukena against Ulrich Cirksena

Division of Friesland

• 1496 - Battle of Sleat,
• 1498 - Battle of Laaxum, against Albert III, Duke of Saxony
• 1500 - Battle of Bomstersyl, against Albert III, Duke of Saxony
• 1514 - Battle of Hartwarden, against the count of Bremen (Christopher the Spendthrift of Brunswick and Lunenburg (Wolfenbüttel))

Saxon feud

• 1514 - Battle of Appingedam, Edzard the Great against the Holy Roman Empire
• 1515-1517 - rebellion of Grutte Pier, against the Dutch and Saxony
• 1517 - Battle of the Wremer Djip, resulting in the death of Tjede Peckes
• 1524 - Battle of Mulsum, last battle of the Land of Wursten against the archbishop of Bremen at Mulsum

Eighty Years' War

• 1568 - Battle of Heiligerlee, against the Spanish
• 1568 - Battle of Jemgum, against the Spanish
• 1586 - Battle of Boksum, against the Spanish

References

1. Cocceianus, Cassius Dio (1917). "LIV". Dio's Roman History. VI. Translated by Carl, Earnest. London: William Heinemann. p. 365.
2. Mackie, W. S. (April 1917). "The Fight at Finnsburg". The Fight at Finnsburg. 16 (2): 250–273. JSTOR 27700806.
3. Rogers, Clifford J. (2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. I. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. p. 543. ISBN 9780195334036.
4. Military, Kennedy Hickman (13 January 2019). "What You Should Know About Charles Martel". ThoughtCo. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
5. Grossman, Mark (2007). World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Infobase Publishing. p. 64. ISBN 9780816074778.
6. Mol, Hans (2004). "De dood van Bonifatius: gevolg van een verkeerde kersteningsstrategie?". Fryslân. 10 (4): 16–20.
7. Lewis, Stephen (2016). "Rodulf and Ubba. In search of a Frisian-Danish Viking". Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research. 40: 11.
8. Choudhary, Vaibhav (13 March 2017). "Viking Age". Human History in Brief. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
9. Bachrach, Bernard S.; Bachrach, David S.; Leese, Michael (2018). Deeds of the Bishops of Cambrai, Translation and Commentary. Oxford, New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781317036210.
10. Nieuwenhuijsen, Kees (2010). "De Slag bij Vlaardingen (1018)". Terra Nigra. 176: 32–50.