page_title: Battle of Lüneburg Heath
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Lüneburg Heath
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Osterheide bei Schneverdingen
context_page_description: The Battle of Lüneburg Heath was a conflict between the army of King Louis III of France and the Norse Great Heathen Army fought on the 2nd February 880 AD, at Lüneburg Heath in today's Lower Saxony.
  Following defeat by Alfred the Great at the Battle of Edington, the Norse Great Heathen Army moved from England to pillage the Duchy of Saxony. The army of Louis met the Norsemen at Lüneburg Heath. The Saxons were routed in a snowstorm, with the army being destroyed or captured.
  Known combatants include Marquard of Hildesheim, Theodoric of Ninden, Lothar I, Count of Stade, an unidentified count named "Bardonum" and Bruno, Duke of East Saxony who according to the chronicles, Annales Fuldenses and the Gesta Francorum drowned in a river during the Saxon retreat. Those killed were recognized by the Catholic Church as the Martyrs of Ebsdorf, whose feast day is the 2nd of February.
  The Norse army was subsequently defeated at the Battle of Thimeon later that month and finally checked at the Battle of Saucourt.
context_section_description: The Battle of Lüneburg Heath (also called the Battle of Ebstorf) was a conflict between the army of King Louis III of France and the Norse Great Heathen Army fought on the 2nd February 880 AD, at Lüneburg Heath in today's Lower Saxony.
   Following defeat by Alfred the Great at the Battle of Edington, the Norse Great Heathen Army moved  from England to pillage the Duchy of Saxony. The army of Louis met the Norsemen at Lüneburg Heath. The Saxons were routed in a snowstorm, with the army being destroyed or captured.
  Known combatants include Marquard of Hildesheim, Theodoric of Ninden,  Lothar I, Count of Stade, an unidentified count named "Bardonum" and  Bruno, Duke of East Saxony  who according to the chronicles, Annales Fuldenses  and the Gesta Francorum drowned in a river during the Saxon retreat.  Those killed were recognized by the Catholic Church as the Martyrs of Ebsdorf, whose feast day is the 2nd of February.
  The Norse army was subsequently defeated at the Battle of Thimeon later that month and finally checked at the Battle of Saucourt.
caption: Lüneburg Heath.
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