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Alemannia lost its distinct jurisdictional identity when Charles Martel absorbed it into the Frankish empire, early in the 8th century.
Before the end of the year, Charles Martel had escaped from prison and been acclaimed mayor by the nobles of that kingdom.
Indeed, 12 years later, when he had thrice rescued Gaul from Umayyad invasions, Antonio Santosuosso noted when he destroyed an Umayyad army sent to reinforce the invasion forces of the 735 campaigns, " Charles Martel again came to the rescue.
" Charles Martel could have pursued the wars against the Saxons — but he was determined to prepare for what he thought was a greater danger.
In 718, Charles Martel, the Franconian Mayor of the Palace, made war against Saxony because of its help for the Neustrians.
The advance into Western Europe was only stopped in what is now north-central France by the West Germanic Franks under Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours in 732.
The mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, defeated that raiding party at the Battle of Tours ( although the battle took place between Tours and Poitiers ) and earned respect and power within the Frankish Kingdom.
The assumption of the crown in 751 by Pepin the Short ( son of Charles Martel ) established the Carolingian dynasty as the Kings of the Franks.
So it was that the armies of the Frankish ruler and warlord Charles Martel, which defeated the Umayyad Arab invasion at the Battle of Tours in 732, were still largely infantry armies, the elites riding to battle but dismounting to fight, providing a hard core for the levy of the infantry warbands.
He also helped the Frankish marshal Charles Martel to drive back the Arabs.
* 717 Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
After Pepin's long rule, his son Charles Martel assumed power, fighting against nobles and his own stepmother.
* 732 Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe.
Perceiving that the Lombard threat would continue to fester and they would take imperial territory in Italy a piece at a time, in around 721 Gregory appealed to the Franks, asking Charles Martel to intervene and drive out the Lombards.
His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by the iconoclastic controversy in the Byzantine Empire, and by the ongoing advance of the Lombards, in which he vainly invoked the intervention of Charles Martel.
In desperation, Gregory sent ambassadors to Charles Martel, the Frankish Mayor of the Palace, begging him to intervene on the pope ’ s behalf.
This time Charles Martel did send an embassy to Rome, and this implicit support, together with the beginnings of fever running through his troops, forced Liutprand to march back to Pavia by the end of August 739.
Even worse news was to follow ; learning that Charles Martel was sick, Liutprand once again returned to attacking the Exarchate in 740, forcing Gregory yet again to appeal to the Franks, who again refused to become involved.
Odo of Aquitaine had married his daughter to Uthman ibn Naissa, a rebel Berber and lord of Cerdanya ( maybe of all current Catalonia too ), in an attempt to secure his southern borders in order to fend off Charles Martel ´ s attacks on the north.
A desperate Odo turned to his archrival Charles Martel for help, who led the Frankish and leftover Aquitanian armies against the Muslims and beat them at the Battle of Tours in 732, killing Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi
After halting their advance north, ten years later, Odo of Aquitaine married his daughter to Uthman ibn Naissa, a rebel Berber and lord of Cerdanya ( maybe of all current Catalonia too ), in an attempt to secure his southern borders in order to fend off Charles Martel ´ s attacks on the north.
A desperate Odo turned to his archrival Charles Martel for help, who led the Frankish and leftover Aquitanian armies against the Muslims and beat them at the Battle of Tours in 732, killing Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi
He spent a year with Willibrord, preaching in the countryside, but their efforts were frustrated by the war then being carried on between Charles Martel and Radbod, king of the Frisians.

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On 8 May 1940 the Czech University was officially renamed Czech Charles University () by government regulation 188 / 1940 Coll.
* 1935 Charles Richter invents a logarithmic scale to measure the intensity of earthquakes ()
Jacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve, () ( born April 9, 1971 ), is a Canadian automobile racing driver and amateur musician.
Charles Emmanuel II () ( 20 June 1634 12 June 1675 ) was the Duke of Savoy from 1638 to 1675 and under regency of his mother Christine of France until 1663.
Charles Taze Russell was born to Scottish-Irish parents, immigrant Joseph Lytel () Russell ( d. December 17, 1897 ) and Ann Eliza Birney ( d. January 25, 1861 ), on February 16, 1852 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.
Charles Martel's father Charles II of Naples, awarded all Croatia from Gvozd Mountain () to the river Neretva mouth hereditary to Paul I Šubić.
Charles VII ( 22 February 1403 22 July 1461 ), called the Victorious () or the Well-Served (), was King of France from 1422 to his death, though he was initially opposed by Henry VI of England, whose Regent, the Duke of Bedford, ruled much of France including the capital, Paris.
Charles VI ( 3 December 1368 21 October 1422 ), called the Beloved () and the Mad ( or le Fou ), was the King of France from 1380 to 1422, as a member of the House of Valois.
* Charles Villiers Stanford-Two Viola Quintets ()
It was named after Charles and Augustus Storrs, two brothers who founded the University of Connecticut ( originally called the Storrs Agricultural College ) by giving the land () and $ 5, 000 in 1871
The Charles River is fed by about 80 streams and several major aquifers as it flows 80 miles ( 129 km ), starting at Echo Lake () in Hopkinton, through 22 cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts before emptying into Boston Harbor.
* Charles Hutton, Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary ( 1815 ), volume II, p. 395-398 ()
St. Charles Parish () is a parish located in the U. S. state of Louisiana.
Alexander Mikhaylovich Prokhorov () ( 11 July 1916 8 January 2002 ) was a Soviet physicist known for his pioneering research on lasers and masers for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov.
Charles II () ( 6 November 1661 1 November 1700 ) was the last Habsburg who reigned in Spain ( Castile and Aragon ).
The Sleeping Beauty (, " The Beauty sleeping in the wood ") by Charles Perrault or Little Briar Rose () by the Brothers Grimm is a classic fairytale involving a beautiful princess, enchantment of sleep, and a handsome prince.
At the age of eight ( 1334 ), she was betrothed to her six-year-old second cousin Prince Andrew () of the Hungarian branch of the House of Anjou, the son of Charles I of Hungary and younger brother of Louis I.
The Age of Liberty () is the half century long period of parliamentarianism and increasing civil rights in Sweden, beginning with Charles XII's death in 1718 and ending with Gustav III's coup d ' état in 1772.
Georges Charles Guillain () ( March 3, 1876-June 29, 1961 ) was a French neurologist born in Rouen.
Then Charles Loewner () proved | a < sub > 3 </ sub >| ≤ 3, using the Löwner equation.
Charles Ogier de Batz de Castelmore, Comte d ' Artagnan () ( c. 1611 25 June 1673 ) served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard and died at the Siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War.

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