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Showing posts with label Charles Martel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charles Martel. Show all posts
27 April 2023

Chrodegang of Metz

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First, some background. In what is now eastern Belgium there was a territory called Hasbania. In French it is now referred to as Hesbaye. Th...
04 March 2023

Liutprand of the Lombards

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In order to preserve Western Europe for Christendom and repel the Muslim invasions, Charles Martel enlisted the aid of Liutprand, King of t...
03 March 2023

Abd-al-Raḥmân al-Ghafiqi

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During the Battle of Toulouse in 721 and the defeat of the Muslim attempt to make inroads to Aquitaine and Gaul, the Muslim general was kil...
02 March 2023

The Battle of Tours, Part 2

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As the army of the Umayyad Caliphate, led by Abd-al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi, moved north into Gaul from Aquitaine in 732, their progress was slowe...
01 March 2023

The Battle of Tours, Part 1

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On 10 October 732, the next attempt by the Umayyad Caliphate to invade Gaul was stopped at the Battle of Tours. This was the second attempt...
28 February 2023

The Battle of Toulouse

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The expansion by the Umayyad Caliphate brought Muslims into the first major conflict with Western Europe in 721 CE. The Umayyads had alread...
24 December 2022

St. Boniface

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About 675 CE in Wessex, England, a boy named Wynfrid was born to a noble family. Educated in the Benedictine abbeys of Exeter and Nursling, ...
18 December 2022

Long Hair and Kingship

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Gregory of Tours mentions, regarding an event in which the body of King Clovis I was exhumed, "Though I did not know who he was, I reco...
12 December 2018

Odo the Great

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The Umayyad Caliphate at the time of Odo This blog has mentioned several men named Odo in the past, but never "the Great." He...
16 December 2012

A Collection of Notkers

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Notker Balbulus (the Stammerer) Yesterday's post on cheese included an anecdote about Charlemagne, attributed to Notker the Stammer...
30 October 2012

Carolingian Bystanders

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To round out the Merovingian/Carolingian week we've been having, let's take a look at some of the other women and children whose liv...
28 October 2012

Sons and Mothers

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Bertrada of Laon Properly speaking, the Carolingian Era started with Carolus Martellus, Charles "the Hammer" Martel (c.688-741...
27 October 2012

After the Hammer Fell

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Nicknames: so easy to get, so hard to get rid of. When Mayor of the Palace and military genius  Charles Martel presented his 12-year-old s...
26 October 2012

Charles the Hammer

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Kings cannot run every administrative detail of their household themselves, so they appoint people to do it for them. Chamberlain, senescha...
25 October 2012

The Lazy Kings

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What do you do when a dynasty seems to become useless? You name them Le Rois fainéants (The do-nothing Kings). The Merovingians are the...