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Widukind (Modern German: Wittekind) was a Germanic leader of the Saxons and the chief opponent of the Frankish king Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars from 777 to 785. Charlemagne ultimatively prevailed organized Saxony as a Frankish province and ordered conversions of the pagan Saxons to Roman Catholicism. In later times Widukind became a symbol of Saxon independence and a figure of legend.
