Friso is a legendary king of the

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ns who is said to have ruled around 300 BC. According to Martinus Hamconius in his 17th-century chronicle ''Frisia seu de viris rebusque illustribus'', and also the 19th-century hoax

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, Friso was a leader of a group of Frisian colonists who had been settled in the

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for well over a millennium when they were discovered by

Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon (; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip ...

. Taking service with Alexander, Friso and the colonists eventually found their way back to their ancestral homeland of Frisia, where Friso founded a dynasty of kings. Another legend has it that a red banner owned by Friso, called the Magnusvaan, is hidden at the church Almenum.''Jancko Douwama's Geschriften'', Boeck der Partijen p. 50 and 51, in ''Werken uitgegeven door het Friesch Genootschap van Geschied- Oudheid- en Taalkunde'', Leeuwarden, 1849. digital version

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References

* Martinus Hamconius:
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