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.

The women's division in WCW was slowly revived in 1996 following the return of Madusa, who spent the first half of the year feuding with Sherri Martel and Bull Nakano.

" Martel then concentrated his attention to the Umayyads, virtually for the remainder of his life.

Throughout the remainder of 1989, Martel and Savage feuded with Hogan and Elizabeth.

Before the end of the year, Charles Martel had escaped from prison and been acclaimed mayor by the nobles of that kingdom.

Paul the Deacon reported correctly in his Historia Langobardorum ( written around the year 785 ) that the Liber pontificalis mentioned these casualty figures in relation to Odo's victory at Toulouse ( though he claimed that Charles Martel fought in the battle alongside Odo ), but later writers, probably " influenced by the Continuations of Fredegar, attributed the Saracen casualties solely to Charles Martel, and the battle in which they fell became unequivocally that of Poitiers.

The first book, which ends in the year 741 with the death of Charles Martel, consists mainly of extracts from Bede, Paulus Diaconus and other writers.

Kahn's 1976 book The Next 200 Years, written with William Brown and Leon Martel, presented an optimistic scenario of economic conditions in the year 2176.

It was awarded to William of Gellone, a grandson of Charles Martel and therefore a cousin of Charlemagne, around the year 800 for his services in the wars against the Moors and reconquering southern France and the Spanish March.

The first occurred June of that year, when Martel wrote a letter to a quasi-judicial body concerning the billing practices of a doctor in northern Ontario.

Later that year Martel witnessed demonstrations of Soviet tank designs including the BT tank, which had been influenced by Christie's work.

In 1217 King John granted a mill worth 100 /- a year, situated in Dartford to Michael de Wallensi and in 1221 William, Prior of Rochester, granted to Alan Martel, Prior of the Knights Templars, half an acre of land by the mill.

After growing up in Stamford, Connecticut, she attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts for her senior year, and was a member of the school's first co-educational class that included jazz composer Bill Cunliffe, software executive Peter Currie, artist Julian Hatton, poet Karl Kirchwey, writer Nate Lee, editor Sara Nelson restaurateur Priscilla Martel and sculptor Gar Waterman.

Dissatisfied with Ponsot's conduct, the French authorities replaced him with Comte Damien de Martel, who, on January 30, 1934, appointed Habib Pacha Es-Saad as president for a one-year term ( later extended for an additional year ).

Shelley Martel continued to represent that constituency provincially until her retirement in 2007, ending the family's forty year run of representing the greater Sudbury area.

During that same year, Martel and Savage appeared on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous with Robin Leach.

Later that year Martel witnessed demonstrations of Soviet tank designs including the BT tank, which had been influenced by Christie's work.

In the same year, Maestro also appeared in the Argentine film, La Niña Santa ( aka The Holy Girl ), directed by Lucrecia Martel, as well as the Focus Features film The Motorcycle Diaries, ( Golden Globe nominee 2005 Best Foreign Film ) based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution.

They were fighting against the Austrasian mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, but after the defeat of Chilperic at Soissons that year, he made peace with Charles by surrendering to him the Neustrian king and his treasures.

In 741, Odilo married Hiltrud, daughter of the Frankish Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel, but a year later he found himself at war with Martel's sons Carloman and Pepin the Short.

Perrier was the third person to be chosen as Miss World in 1953, representing France ; the same year that France also won the Miss Universe pageant by Christiane Martel.

Due to the situation in Iberia, Martel believed he needed a virtually full-time army — one he could train intensely — as a core of veteran Franks who would be augmented with the usual conscripts called up in time of war.

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.

Stephen's long-standing commander William of Ypres remained with the queen in London ; William Martel, the royal steward, commanded operations from Sherborne in Dorset, and Faramus of Boulogne ran the royal household.

To address the growing power of the Count of Anjou, Geoffrey Martel, William joined with King Henry in a campaign against him, the last known cooperation between the two.

* Following the death of Theuderic IV, Merovingian King of the Franks, the throne is left vacant for seven years, with Charles Martel, Mayor of the Palace, continuing as effective ruler.

* March 21 – Battle of Vincy: Charles Martel, with his Austrasian forces, defeats Chilperic II, King of Neustria, and his Mayor of the Palace, Ragenfrid, and proclaims Clotaire IV King of Austrasia.

It fell into the hands of the Saracens and was destroyed in 737 by the Franks under Charles Martel for having sided with the Arabs against him.

Further, the Umayyads appear not to have scouted northward for potential foes, for if they had, they surely would have noted Charles Martel as a force to be reckoned with in his own account, because of his growing domination of much of Europe from 717: this might have alerted the Umayyads that a real power led by a gifted general was rising from the ashes of the Western Roman Empire.

The treaties reached earlier with the local population stood firm and were further consolidated in 734 when the governor of Narbonne, Yusuf ibn ' Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri, concluded agreements with several towns on common defense arrangements against the encroachments of Charles Martel, who had systematically brought the south to heel as he extended his domains.

What is more, Martel cemented his place in history with his defense of Christian Europe against a Muslim army at the Battle of Tours in 732.

In 718, Charles Martel, with Austrasian support in his war against Neustria, each struggling to unite Francia under their hegemony, appointed one Chlothar IV to rule in Austrasia.

By the time of Charles Martel and Saint Boniface, they were again subject to the Franks and ruled by Frankish dukes with their seat at Würzburg in the south.

This was in part the continuation of a policy begun under his grandfather, Pippin of Herstal, and continued to under his father, Charles Martel, who erected four dioceses in Bavaria ( Salzburg, Regensburg, Freising, and Passau ) and gave them Boniface as archbishop and metropolitan over all Germany east of the Rhine, with his seat at Mainz.

Stephen's long-standing commander William of Ypres remained with the queen in London ; William Martel, the royal steward, commanded operations from Sherborne in Dorset, and Faramus of Boulogne ran the royal household.

In 736-737, Charles Martel and his brother led an expedition to Septimania and Provence, and largely destroyed the city ( in the hands of Umayyads allied with the local Gallo-Roman and Gothic nobility ), including the amphitheatre, thereafter heading back north.

The office became hereditary in the family of the Pippinids with powerful mayors of the palace such as Charles Martel, who proclaimed himself Duke of the Franks, and for the last four years of his reign did not even bother with the façade of a King.

The Bear, originating from the legend that saw Charles Martel, still a child, kill a bear that terrorized the inhabitants, with a hammer, symbolizes the city.

In 716, the Battle of Amblève, between Charles Martel with the Austrasians on one side and the joined forces of the Frisians and Neustrians under Ragenfrid and Chilperic II on the other side, was the first victory for Charles Martel.

At the end of the First World War, the British Army Engineers Major Giffard LeQuesne Martel and Major Charles Inglis experimented with tank bridges and mine rollers based on the Mk V tank.

In early 1992, Martel began a feud with Tatanka, leading to WrestleMania VIII, where Tatanka pinned him.

Martel then resumed his rivalry with Tatanka by stealing his sacred eagle feathers, to add to his wardrobe.

The feud was resolved at the 1992 Survivor Series, where Tatanka again defeated Martel and reclaimed the feathers.

Tatanka's earliest rivalry on television was against Rick Martel that culminated in Tatanka's pay-per-view debut at WrestleMania VIII, with Tatanka winning the match.