Widukind
（重定向自Wittekind）
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![Charlemagne (742–814) receiving the submission of Witikind at Paderborn in 785, by Ary Scheffer (1795–1858). Versailles.](/Images/godic/202502/21/Charlemagne_742_814_receiving_the_submission_of_Witikind_at_Paderborn_in_785_Ary_Schefferr_1795_18581229.jpg")
Widukind (Modern German: Widuking or 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 ultimately 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.