Charles Martel, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia

689 - 741  (52 years)

• Name	Charles Martel
  Suffix	Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
  Birth	689  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	741  [1, 2]
  Person ID	I2468	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	Pepin II of Heristal, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia,   b. Abt 645   d. 714 (Age ~ 69 years)
  Mother	Alpaida of Aupois
  Family ID	F2393	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rotrude of Trier   d. 724
  Children	+ 1. Pepin III "The Short", King of Franks,   b. 714, Austrasia, France d. 24 Sep 768, Saint-Denis, France (Age 54 years)
  Family ID	F616	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Nov 2014

  
  

• Notes

  Remembered in Western history as the victor over the Umayyad Caliphate at Tours, October 732, long alleged to have been the decisive turning point in repelling the Muslim advance into Europe. Some modern historians question whether this single battle was quite so determinative. Some also question whether it happened in 732, or at Tours.

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S6517] The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe by Pierre Riché, trans. Michael Idomir Allen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993., says "714", in context obviously a typo, since the same source gives the first of his three wives as dying in 724.