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Statue of Pier Gerlofs Donia, the Frisian folk hero and freedom fighter. Frisia is a small region in the north of the modern day country known as the Netherlands.In the Iron Age, the ancestors of the modern Frisians first migrated south out of modern day Scandinavia to the south west where they began to settle along the coast.
Frisia was granted to the Danish Viking Rorik of Dorestad [38] between 841 and 880, followed by another Danish Viking Godfrid, Duke of Frisia until he was killed in 885. [39] The area was subsequently under Gerolf of Holland. [40] Before 1101, sources talk about counts ruling over Frisia, west of the Vlie as Frisian counts.
The Viking rule in Frisia was terminated, nevertheless in view of the continuous threat, the local peasants were granted the Frisian freedom (West Frisian: Fryske frijheid), which excluded them from the feudal customs in the Frankish Empire, with no suzerain above them than the Emperor himself.
A print of Friso, the legendary founder of Frisia, by Pieter Feddes van Harlingen (c. 1619). According to a medieval Frisian historiographical work, the Gesta-cycle, [b] after Thomas the Apostle traveled to Christianize India, God led three Christian brothers – Friso, Saxo, and Bruno – from their native home, called Fresia, [c] in northern India to northern Europe.
Frisia [a] (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ə /) is a cross-border cultural region in Northwestern Europe. Stretching along the Wadden Sea, it encompasses the north of the Netherlands and parts of northwestern Germany. Wider definitions of "Frisia" may include the island of Rem and the other Danish Wadden Sea Islands.
A 19th century pseudo-chronicle, the Oera Linda Book (1872), embellished these stories further by describing an ancient and glorious history for the Frisians extending back thousands of years. Originally, they were supposedly ruled over by a line of matriarchs known as folk-mothers, founded by the eponymous goddess Frya as an ancestress of all ...
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.
Friesland (/ ˈ f r iː z l ə n d / FREEZ-lənd; Dutch: [ˈfrislɑnt] ⓘ; official West Frisian: Fryslân [ˈfrislɔ̃ːn] ⓘ), historically and traditionally known as Frisia (/ ˈ f r iː ʒ ə /), named after the Frisians, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part.