Battle of Detern

{{Short description|1426 battle}} {{Infobox Militärischer Konflikt |conflict = Battle of Detern |partof = East Frisian Wars of Independence |BILD = |BILDBREITE = |BESCHREIBUNG = |date = 27 September 1426 |DATUMBIS = |place = near Detern |CASUS = |GEBIETE = |result = Victory for the rebelling East Frisians |combatant1 = Rebelling East Frisians |combatant2 = Brokmerland and Auricherland |commander1 = Focko Ukena<br> Sibet von Rüstringen |commander2 = Ocko II tom Brok }} thumb | right | Map in 1300 The '''Battle of Detern''' ({{langx|de|Schlacht von Detern}}) on 27 September 1426 marked the prelude to the East Frisian rebellion against the rule of the tom Brok family over East Frisia.

During the course of the battle, an East Frisian peasant army under Focko Ukena and Sibet of Rüstringen defeated the Oldenburg troops called by Chieftain Ocko II tom Brok to assist him, the Archbishop of Bremen and the counts of Hoya, Diepholz and Tecklenburg, who had besieged Detern. Focko Ukena – a former henchman of Ocko – thrashed the combined Bremen–Oldenburg cavalry force, after Count Dietrich of Oldenburg deserted his allies during the battle.<ref name="dede">Dede, Klaus. [http://www.klausdede.de/index.php?content=weserundjade&sub=10 ''An Weser und Jade – 1400-1429''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190309111236/http://www.klausdede.de/index.php?content=weserundjade&sub=10 |date=2019-03-09 }}. Accessed on 11 January 2010.</ref> Count Johann von Rietberg, the second son of Otto II of Rietberg and Conrad X of Diepholz fell in battle.<ref>Schmidt, Heinrich (1975). ''Politische Geschichte Ostfrieslands''. Rautenberg, Leer (Ostfriesland im Schutze des Deiches, Bd. 5), p. 85.</ref> and Archbishop Nicholas of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst was captured,<ref name="dede"/> but released after negotiations with the Bremen town council.

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