Forwards may also contribute defensively by harrying opposition defenders and goalkeepers whilst not in possession. He gave battle with the harrying royalist cavalry at the town of Villalar. From Debra Marqos, Wingate pursued the Italians and undertook a series of harrying actions. Witzin died in battle and Charlemagne avenged him by harrying the Eastphalians on the Elbe. There had been no monasteries north of Burton upon Trent before the harrying. Scholarship on the "harrying" does contain some dissent from this history. This temporarily stopped their harrying of Scotland. The manor was devastated during William the Conqueror's Harrying of the North. What followed was the Harrying of the North ordered by William. Much of the wider area was laid waste in the subsequent Harrying of the North. Despite Frentzen harrying Schumacher right to the bitter end, this was how they finished. After the Norman conquest in 1066, the Harrying of the North brought destruction. Middleton adopted a strategy of raid and harrying.