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View Tree for KARL MARTELKARL MARTEL (b. 23 August 686, d. 22 October 741)

KARL MARTEL (son of PEPIN Of D'HERISTAL and ALPAIS AUSTRASIA) was born 23 August 686 in Heristal, Liege , Belgium, and died 22 October 741 in Quierzy, Aisne, FRA.. He married ROTRUDE DUCHESS OF AUSTRASIA on Bef. 713, daughter of Leutwinus BISHOP OF TREVES.

 Includes NotesNotes for KARL MARTEL:
His birthdate is listed differently in Various sources. Weiss gives it as 689 and Encylcopedia Britanica gives it as 688. He was the Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia. In 732, He won the battle over the Saracens at Poitiers. Though he never reigned himself, He helped bring his sones Carloman and Pepin the short into ruling as joint Kings of France. ( c-1440, E)


Karl married Rotrude DUCHESS OF AUSTRASIA, daughter of Leutwinus BISHOP OF TREVES AND UNKNOWN, BEFORE 713.

Name Charles "the Hammer" "Victor of Tours" MARTEL "Mayor of the Palace"
Birth 23 Aug 0686, Heristal, Liege, BELGIUM
Death 22 Oct 0741, Quirzy, Aisne, FRANCE Age: 55
Burial St. Denis Monastery, Paris, Seine, FRANCE
Occupation Royalty
Father 'Pepin II' "the Great" de HERSTAL "Mayor of the Palace (Austrasia)" (~0635-0714)
Mother Alpaide de AUSTRASIA (~0654-)

Spouses
1 Clotrude Rotrou "of Treves"
Birth 0690, AUSTRASIA, (Belgium)
Death 0732 Age: 42
Father "Saint" Leutwunus de TREVES "Bishop of Troyes" (0661-0716)
Mother NEUSTRASIA (0675-)


Children Landree (0711-)
Bernard
'Pepin III' "the Short" (0714-0768)
Carolman (0715-)
Hieronymus (~0720-)
Aude (0732-)

2 Sunnichild "of Bavaria"
Birth abt 0700
Father Theodebert "of Bavaria" "Duke" (~0685-<0725)
Mother de FOLCHEID


Children Chiltrud
UNNAMED (~0740-)

Notes for Charles "the Hammer" "Victor of Tours" MARTEL "Mayor of the Palace"
[GREATx39 GRANDFATHER]+ [A] [K]
Charles Martel (circa 688-741), Carolingian ruler of the Frankish kingdom of Austrasia (in present northeastern France and southwestern Germany). Charles, whose surname means "the hammer," was the son of Pepin of Herstal and the grandfather of Charlemagne. Pepin was mayor of the palace under the last kings of the Merovingian dynasty. After Pepin died in 714, Charles, an illegitimate son, was imprisoned by his father's widow, but he escaped in 715 and was proclaimed mayor of the palace by the Austrasians. A war between Austrasia and the Frankish kingdom of Neustria (now part of France) followed, and at the end of it Charles became the undisputed ruler of all the Franks. Although he was engaged in wars against the Alamanni, Bavarians, and Saxons, his greatest achievements were against the Muslims from Spain, who invaded France in 732. Charles defeated them near Poitiers in a great battle in which the Muslim leader, Abd-ar-Rahman, the emir of Spain, was killed. The progress of Islam, which had filled all Christendom with alarm, was thus checked for a time. Charles drove the Muslims out of the Rhône valley in 739, when they had again advanced into France as far as Lyon, leaving them nothing of their possessions north of the Pyrenees beyond the Aude River. Charles died in Quierzy, on the Oise River, leaving the kingdom divided between his two sons, Carloman and Pepin the Short. - [1]

Fearless and able leader. 732 - Expanded Christianity against Saracen incursions. Divided his lands between his two sons shortly before his death. Preserver of western civilization. Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia. - [2]




More About KARL MARTEL and ROTRUDE DUCHESS OF AUSTRASIA:
Marriage: Bef. 713

Children of KARL MARTEL and ROTRUDE DUCHESS OF AUSTRASIA are:
  1. +PEPIN "THE SHORT KING Of FRANKS, b. 714, Ingelheim, Rheinhessen, Hessen-Darmstadt, Prussia42, d. 24 September 768, St. Denis, Paris, Seine, FRA.
  2. Carloman PRINCE OF FRANKS, d. date unknown.
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