523. Charlemagne: Return of the Kings (Part 1)

2164.006 - 2190.565 Tom Holland

He gives a signal, his servants, his aides, his men step up, slit the throats of all the Alemanni noblemen, and that is them wiped out. And the claim is that thousands of them are killed. So Timothy Reuter, the great historian of Frankish Germany, he wrote that, Canstatt did for the Alemannic landholding class what Hastings did for the Anglo-Saxon landholding class, i.e. wipe them out completely.