Battle of Rednitz

Battle of the Rednitz
Part of the Hungarian invasions of Europe
Date 22 June, 910 Location Rednitz River, in Franconia, Germany, near the border with Bavaria Result Decisive Hungarian victory
Belligerents
East Francia's united troops from Duchy of Franconia, Duchy of Lotharingia, Duchy of Bavaria	Principality of Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Gebhard, Duke of Lorraine † Liudger, Count of Ladengau †	Unknown Hungarian commander
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Heavy, among them Gebhard, Duke of Lorraine, Liudger, Count of Ladengau	Light

The Battle of Rednitz on 22 June 910, was a decisive victory of the Magyar cavalry over the East Francian - German kingdoms armies. The location of this battle could be not determined with 100% certitude. The battle happened near the river Rednitz, in Franconia, near the border with Bavaria ("in confinio Bavariae et Franciae"). After the battle, the German king Louis the Child, together with the Swabian, Frankish, Bavarian and Saxonian dukes, accepted to pay tribute to the Hungarian state.

We do not know who was the commander of the Hungarian army (he could be a chieftain or a prince), but it was the same who 10 days before the battle of Rednitz, on 12 June 910 at the Battle of Augsburg inflicted a crushing defeat on the German army led by the king Louis the Child.

Reginonis Continuator, Annales Alamannici German chronicles from the X. century.

This battle is a part of the Hungarian - German war which started in 900, the death of Arnulf of Carinthia, with whom the Hungarians were in alliance, and after the Hungarian conquest of Pannonia (Transdanubia), and lasted until 910, the battles of Augsburg and Rednitz, both ending in disastrous German defeats, which forced the German king Louis the Child, and the German duchies to accept the territorial losses, and pay tribute to the Hungarians. During this war, after the Battle of Pressburg, the Hungarians continued their campaigns against East Francia, in order to subdue completely the Germans, beaten in 907. In 908 a Hungarian army invaded Thuringia, killing, in the Battle of Eisenach, its duke, Burchard, duke Egino, and Rudolf I, Bishop of Würzburg. In 909 a Hungarian army invaded Bavaria, but it was defeated by Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria in a minor battle near Pocking.

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