TDIH - February 2 This Day in (Medieval) History: February 2 506 – King Alaric II of the Visigoths, published a legal code called the Breviary of Alaric or Lex Romana Visigothorum (“Roman Law of the Visigoths”). 880 – Battle of Luneburg Heath (or Battle of Ebstorf), Saxony: an army under King Louis III of France was defeated by the "Great Heathen Army" or "Great Danish Army". 962 – Otto I was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope John XII. 1032 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, became king of Burgundy. 1141 – Battle of Lincoln, England: King Stephen of England was defeated and captured by an army allied with Empress Matilda. 1207 – Terra Mariana ("Land of Mary") or Livonia, was created after the Livonian Crusade had taken the region now occupied by Latvia and Estonia. 1438 – Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt were executed at Torda, Transylvania. 1461 – The Battle of Mortimer's Cross: a Lancastrian army under Owen Tudor and his son Jasper was defeated by a Yorkist army led by Edward, Earl of March. Owen Tudor was killed.