Wittekind

"You only put up monuments to those who are dead," said Wittekind.

At Detmold, Wittekind led the Saxons in a furious battle, in which neither gained the victory.

Charlemagne marched immediately into the Saxon land: the rebels dispersed at his approach and Wittekind again became a fugitive.

Both he and his wife Mathilde were descendants of Wittekind, the foe and almost the conqueror of Charlemagne.