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Charles Martel

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Charles Martel (c. 688–741)

Frankish ruler (Mayor of the Palace) of the eastern Frankish kingdom from 717 and the whole kingdom from 731. His victory against the Moors at Moussais-la-Bataille near Tours in 732 earned him his nickname of Martel, ‘the Hammer’, because he halted the Islamic advance by the Moors into Europe.

An illegitimate son of Pepin of Heristal (Pepin II, Mayor of the Palace c. 640–714), he was a grandfather of Charlemagne.



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Charles Martel, John Sobieski, Pelayo, Rodrigo de Vivar (El Cid), and the other great Christian defenders of Europe against 1,200 years of Mohammedan aggression must be already turning in their graves at the thought of such betrayal.
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It was the brave Charles Martel and his small army of Frankish nobles who destroyed the superior forces of an invading Islamic army on the battlefield of Tours in 732AD.
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