 His severe and uncompromising position, which earned him the title "butcher of Saxons", caused his close adviser Alcuin of York, later abbot of Marmoutier Abbey, Tours, to urge leniency, as God's word should be spread not by the sword but by persuasion; but the wars continued.In summer 779, Charlemagne again went into Saxony and conquered Eastphalia, Engria, and Westphalia.At a diet near Lippspringe, he divided the land into missionary districts and Frankish countships.