Complex sentence: Rijssen received city rights on the 5th of May, 1243, but archeological evidence shows that the monk Lebuinus founded a church in Rijssen as early as the seventh century, as part of a coordinated attempt to convert the pagan saxons to christianity.
Split into simpler sentences: Rijssen received city rights on the 5th of May, 1243. Archeological evidence, however, shows that the monk Lebuinus founded a church in Rijssen as early as the seventh century, as part of a coordinated attempt to convert the pagan saxons to christianity.