Albion (Saxon)

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| nationality = Saxon

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| occupation = Warrior

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| known_for = Fought alongside Widukind

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Albion (or Abbion shortened to Abbio or Abbi, also Alboin{{Cite book|last=Warner|first=Susan|title=Pine Needles|publisher=Outlook|year=2018|isbn=978-3-7326-4544-2|location=Frankfurt|pages=19|language=en}}) was a Germanic leader of the Saxons in the time of Charlemagne. (exact dates remain unknown)

Albbi is considered one of the two principal Saxon chiefs along with Widukind.{{Cite book|last=Kurtz|first=Johann Heinrich|title=Text-book of Church History|date=1875|publisher=Smith, English & Company|isbn=|location=London|pages=310|language=en}} He was the leader of the Eastphalians while the latter ruled the Westphalian Saxons.{{Cite book|last=Barnard|first=Frederick|title=Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia: A Scientific and Popular Treasury of Useful Knowledge|date=1890|publisher=A.J. Johnson|isbn=|location=New York|pages=608|language=en}} Both opposed the aggressive eastern expansion of the Carolingian Empire. They mustered an army and fought Charlemagne in two major battles, at Osnabrück and Detmold. After these conflicts the Saxons were recorded to have taken 4,000 prisoners.

In 785, after being defeated in the Saxon wars, fleeing across the Elbe, Albion was baptized together with Widukind, possibly in Attigny, with Charlemagne as his godfather.{{citation

|surname1=Schurzfleisch, Konrad

|title=Wittekindus Magnus

|publisher=Scipio

|publication-place=Leipzig

|pages=26ff

|contribution=XIV. Defessio bellis Carolo... Anm. (dd)

|date= 1698

}}{{citation

|surname1=Krantz, Albert

|title=Saxonia

|publisher=Johann Soter

|publication-place=Kölln

|date= 1520

|url=https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10143352?page=195

}} He was possibly married to Giesela (or Hasela), a daughter or sister to Widukind, and therefore closely related to him.{{citation

|surname1=W. Lammers

|editor-surname1=Robert Auty

|title=Lexikon des Mittelalters

|publisher=Metzler

|pages=14

|contribution=Abbio (Abbi)

|isbn=3-476-01742-7

|date= 1999

}} Albion was said to be the ancestor of the House of Ascania.{{citation

|editor-surname1=Heinrich August Pierer

|title=Pierer's Universal-Conversations-Lexikon

|edition=6

|volume=1

|publisher=Spaarmann

|publication-place=Oberhausen und Leipzig

|pages=363

|date= 1875

|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_X8oUAAAAYAAJ

}}{{cite book|last=Lammers|first=W|title=Lexikon des Mittelalters|year=1977|publisher=Metzler|isbn=3-476-01742-7|chapter=Abbio (Abbi)|page=14}}