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Charles Martel
Frankish military and political leader (c. 688–741)
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
Abbey of Saint Gall
abolished monastery and collegiate district with cathedral in the city of St. Gallen, Switzerland
war hammer
late medieval weapon
Liber Historiae Francorum
8th-century book on early Frank history
Abbey of Reichenau
monastery
Umayyad invasion of Gaul
conquest of Septimania and Aquitaine
Swanachild
Swanachild (also Swanahild or Serenahilt) was the second wife of Charles Martel.
Rotrude of Trier
690-725
Battle of the Boarn
734 battle
Battle of Cologne
716 battle near Cologne
Battle of Avignon
737 battle
Ruodhaid
Mistress of Charles Martel

Battle of Soissons
battle in 718
Battle of the River Berre
frankish expedition and battle in Septimania
Battle of Amblève
716 battle
Battle of Vicy
717 battle
Battle of Narbonne
737 battle
Charles Martel Group
French far-right anti-Arab terrorist organization which operated in the 1970s and 1980s
Battle of Nîmes
8th-century siege in France
History of the Arabs
1937 book by Philip Khuri Hitti