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By Christianization, the Germanic peoples were adowed with the organization of the Catholic Church, firstly among the Franks, whose leader Clovis embraced Catholicism in 496. Subsequently, the Franks became standard-bearers of orthodox Catholicism in Western Europe, waging wars on its behalf against Arian Christians, Islamic invaders, and heathen Germanic peoples such as the Saxons and Frisians.
Until 1066Events January 6 Harold II is crowned King of England the day after Edward the Confessor dies. Tostig Godwinson and Harald Hardraada of Norway invade England. September 25 Harold II defeats Tostig and Harold Hardraada at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, kil, when the DaneDane may refer to a citizen of the Kingdom of Denmark. a member of a Germanic people in southern Scandinavia, the Daner, prior to the unification of the Daner and the Jutes. There are also a few places named Dane in the United States: Dane, Wisconsin Danes and the NorseNorse is related to Scandinavia, and may mean: Ancient Norse mythology; Mediaeval Norsemen, i. Scandinavians; The Nordic countries today; The Norse languages are a group of dialects, which includes Swedish, Danish and Norwegian. The Old Norse language. had lost their foothold in BritainThe word Britain is used to refer to the United Kingdom (UK): i. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (from 1927), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1801- 1927) or the United Kingdom of Great Britain ( 1707- 1801)., theological and missionary work in GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east was largely organized from Britain, but not very successful. In the political and military sphere, however, the Saxons were the object of intense military pressure by CharlemagneCharlemagne (c. 2nd of April, 747 28th of January, 814) (or Charles the Great in German Karl der Grosse in Latin Carolus Magnus giving rise to the adjective form 'Carolingian'), was king of the Franks from 771 to 814, nominally King of the Lombards, and H and the Franks, culminating in the defeat and massacre of Saxon leaders at VerdenVerden is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district (Kreis) of Verden. Population: 25,500. Verden is situated at the Aller river. Verden is famous for a massacre on Lower Saxons in 800, committed by Charlemagne (" Verden's bloody in 787Events Second Council of Nicaea ends the first iconoclastic period in the Byzantine Empire Canual succeeds Talorgen as king of the Picts. the first three Viking ships landed in Wessex/England and the Norsemen started to plunder towns and coastal monasteri and the annexation of the tribe.
Thereafter, the vast territories of Northern Europe was more successfully converted to Christianity under German leadership, and made into nation states under the Church's guidance, finalized in the Northern Crusades. As a result, German and Scandinavian noblemen extended their power to also Finnic, Samic, Baltic and some Slavic peoples.
This Germanic dominance over North-Western Europe would come to last for most of the second millennium.