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Group: Piankeshaw (Amerind tribe)
People: Crescentius the Elder
Topic: Saxon Rebellion
Location: Brescello Emilia-Romagna Italy

Saxon Rebellion

Years: 1073 - 1075

The Saxon Rebellion or Rebellion of the Saxons (German: Sachsenkrieg) refers to the struggle between the Salian dynasty ruling the Holy Roman Empire and the rebel Saxons during the reign of King Henry IV of Germany.

The conflict reaches its climax in the period from summer 1073 until the end of 1075, in a rebellion that involves several clashes of arms.

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”

― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire...(1852)