Charles Martel

...Lombards, leaving the allied forces too strong for the relief force from from Al-Andalus to meet in open battle. Martel's remaining years - he had only four to live - were spent setting up and strengthening the administrative structure that...

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...Carolingian eras, and the site of assemblies of the Frankish nobles, of synods of bishops and abbots and other important events. Here Charles Martel died, 22 October 741, and it was probably at Quierzy that Charlemagne was born the following 2...

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...known as Abd er Rahman, Abdderrahman, Abderame, and Abd el-Rahman, led the Andalusian Muslims into battle against the forces of Charles Martel in the Battle of Tours on October 10, 732 A.D. for which he is primarily remembered in the West.

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...soldiers back to Neustria, Charles fell on them near Malmedy and in the Battle of Ambleve , Charles routed them and they fled. Thereafter, Charles Martel remained virtually undefeated and Chilperic's strong will was subdued in a series of...

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...Langobardorum the Arabs retreated when they learned that Martel had formed an alliance with the Lombards. Martel's remaining years - he had only four to live - were spent setting up and strengthening the administrative structure that became...

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...of Pepin of Heristal. Since Pepin's death in December 714, his grandson and heir Theudoald, his widow Plectrude, his bastard son Charles Martel, his successor as mayor of the palace in Neustria Ragenfrid, and the new king Chilperic II had...

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...called Les Rues-des-Vignes) was fought at Vincy, near Cambrai, in the modern ''departement '' of Nord . It was a contest between Charles Martel and the Austrasians on one side and the king of the Franks, Chilperic II, and his mayor of the...

In this article: Chilperic II, Ragenfrid, Battle of Vincy, Rigobert, Milo, Clotaire IV, and Paris

...those of Theudoald and Plectrude, grandson (and designated heir) and widow respectively of Martel's father Pepin of Heristal, and those of Martel himself, newly escaped from Plectrude's Cologne prison and acclaimed mayor of the palace of...

In this article: Cologne, Chilperic II, Battle of Cologne, Battle of Ambleve, Ragenfrid, Pepin of Heristal, Battle of Tours, and Theudoald

...or, perhaps, not even a Merovingian at all, and merely a convenient puppet or place-man who served Charles Martel's political purposes at the time. His reign, if it can be called that, was completely inconsequential in and of itself, for he...

In this article: Chilperic II, Chlothar IV, Odo the Great, Ragenfrid, Childebert III, Merovingian, and Cambrai

...his court. There he exiled Eucherius and all his relatives to Cologne. The extraordinary esteem which his virtue procured him caused Charles to send Eucherius to a fortress in the territory of Liege, but the governor of Liege gave him...

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