Germanic Christianity

By Germanic Christianity is that phase in the history of Northern Europe understood, when the Germanic peoples that in the first millennium were known for migrations and barbarian attacks became pacified and incorporated in Western Christianity.

By Christianization, the Germanic peoples were adowed with the organization of the Catholic Church. Until 1066, when the Danes and the Norse had lost their foothold in Britain, the Christianization was largely organized from Britain, but not very successful. Thereafter, the vast territories of Northern Europe was more successfully converted to Christianity under German leadership, and made into nation states under the Church's guidance, finalized in the Northern Crusades. As a result, German and Scandinavian noblemen extended their power to also Finnic, Samic, Baltic and some Slavic peoples.

This Germanic dominance over North-Western Europe would come to last for most of the second millennium.