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Vlaardingen, Battle of

Years: 1018 - 1018

The Battle of Vlaardingen is fought on July 29, 1018.

The German emperor sends an army towards western Frisia to subdue the rebellious Count Dirk III.

However, the imperial army is defeated by the Vlaardingers and fled in panic.Our knowledge of the battle is based on three chronicles, written shortly after the date: De diversitate temporum by the monk Alpertus of Metz, the Chronicon of Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg, and in the Cambrai Bishop’s Chronicle.

Also, recent archaeological discoveries shed some light on Vlaardingen in the eleventh century.

"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."

—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)