CHARLES MARTEL

märtĕlˈ [O.Fr.,=Charles the Hammer], 688?–741, Frankish ruler, illegitimate son of Pepin of Heristal and grandfather of Charlemagne. After the death of his father (714) he seized power in Austrasia from Pepin's widow, who was ruling as regent for her grandsons, and became mayor of the palace. He subsequently subdued the W Frankish kingdom of Neustria and began the reconquest of Burgundy, Aquitaine, and Provence. Charles Martel defeated the Spanish Muslims at the battle of Tours (732–33) and began the military campaigns that reestablished the Franks as the rulers of Gaul. Although he never assumed the title of king, he divided the Frankish lands, like a king, between his sons Pepin the Short and Carloman.

See F. Lot, The End of the Ancient World and the Beginnings of the Middle Ages (1927, tr. 1961); E. James, The Origins of France: Clovis and the Capetians, a.d. 500–1000 (1982).

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Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire
Book by Simon Maclean; Cambridge University Press, 2003
Subjects: Charles, Le Grand, 1543-1608, France--History--To 987, France--Kings And Rulers--Biography, Holy Roman Empire--History--843-1273
...Politics of Berengar, p. 2 9; P. Fouracre, The Age of Charles Martel (Harlow, 2000), esp. pp. r8-z?. 43 G. Tabacco...1999), 129-53, at 129-38. 4S Fouracre, Age of Charles Martel, pp. 13-15. 3. 49 For one conspicuous example, a...
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A History of Charles the Great (Charlemagne)
Book by J. I. Mombert; Kegan Paul, Trench, 1888
Subjects: Charlemagne--Emperor--742-814
...CHAPTER I. CHARLES MARTEL. Introductory...CHRONOLOGICAL ANNALS. CHARLES MARTEL, SON OF PEPIN OF HERISTAL AND...receives the homage of Hunold. CHARLES MARTEL-- Continued. A...
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Charlemagne (Charles the Great): The Hero of Two Nations
Book by H. W. Carless Davis; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1900
Subjects: Charlemagne--Emperor--742-814
...Saracens, whom only the arms of Charles Martel prevented from extending their...other, acrimonious complaints. Charles Martel was the principal offender. He...Papacy courted the friendship of Charles Martel and invited him to take the field...
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Harunu'l-Rashid and Charles the Great
Book by F. W. Buckler; The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1931
Subjects: Charlemagne--Emperor--742-814, France--Foreign Relations--Islamic Countries, Islamic Countries--Politics And Government
...his position against Charles Martel 730 , 5 and Maurontus...The last expedition of Charles 739 6 was not against...62, pp. 7, n. 4, 84. Martel served only to intensify...between the house of Charles and the Southern counts...
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Neo-Impressionist Painters: A Sourcebook on Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac, Theo Van Rysselberghe, Henri Edmond Cross, Charles Angrand, Maximilien Luce, and Albert Dubois-Pillet
Book by Russell T. Clement, Annick Houze; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: Neo-Impressionism (Art)--Belgium--Bibliography, Neo-Impressionism (Art)--France--Bibliography, Painting, Modern--19th Century--Belgium--Bibliography, Painting, Modern--19th Century--France--Bibliography
...1889; Paris: L. Laget, 1969. b. English eds.: The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours . Trans. by Charles Martel . London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1854, 1855, 1857, 1859, 1860, 1868, 1872, 1881...
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A Taxonomy of Alternative Plots in Recent Films: Classifying the "Tarantino Effect"
Journal article by Charles Ramirez Berg; Film Criticism, Vol. 31, 2006
Subjects: Motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Movies--Criticism and interpretation, Narrative art (Visual arts)--Criticism and interpretation, Storytelling--Forecasts and trends, Storytelling--Methods, Tarantino, Quentin--Works
...Tim Kirkman) Longitude (TVM, 2000, d. Charles Sturridge) Syriana (2005, d. Stephen Gaghan...classical paradigm. Other incidents from Charles Foster Kanes life are related by various...interpreted subjectively, truth is elusive. As Charles Musser has demonstrated, Edwin S. Porter...
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Differences in Color Balance Depending upon Mode of Comparison
Journal article by Christopher M. Linnett, Robert H. Morriss, William P. Dunlap, Charles J. Fritchie; Journal of General Psychology, Vol. 118, 1991
Subjects: Color--Psychological Aspects
...Chevreul M. E. 1967 . The principles of harmony and contrast of colors and their applications to the arts C. Martel, Trans. . 3rd ed. . London: Henry G. Bohn. Original work published 1839 . Jameson D., Hurvich L. M. 1961...
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Paradiso Ma Non Troppo: the Place of the Lyric Dante in the Late Cantos of Ezra Pound
Journal article by Reed Way Dasenbrock; Comparative Literature, Vol. 57, 2005
Subjects: Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321), Comparative literature, Literary criticism, Poetry, Poets, Pound, Ezra (1885-1972), Source studies, Writers
...ciel move te" (quoted to Dante by Charles Martel in Paradise VIII), "Amor che ne...in the poem. When Dante meets Charles Martel in Paradise VIII, he is told...and listening to Casella, while Charles Martel-although in Paradise-is in the...
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Professor Kevin Macdonald's Critique of Judaism: Legitimate Scholarship or the Intellectualization of Anti-semitism?
Journal article by George Michael; Journal of Church and State, Vol. 48, 2006
Subjects: Anti-Semitism, Behavior, Child development, Criticism, Intellectuals, Jews, Judaism, Minority & ethnic groups, Religion, Society
...Quarterly, the journal of the Charles Martel Society with which MacDonald is...find your affiliation with the Charles Martel Society and The Occidental Quarteny...I see my affiliation with the Charles Martel Society and The Occidental Quarterly...
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Chevreul and Impressionism: a Reappraisal
Journal article by Georges Roque; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 78, 1996
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Chevreul, Michel-Eugene (1786-1889), Color, Monet, Claude (1840-1926), Pissarro, Camille, Theory, Visual artists
...1990. Chevreul, M.-E., The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours, and Their Applications to the Arts, trans. Charles Martel, London, 1854. Helmholtz, H. von, "On the Relation of Optics to Painting," in Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects...
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The High Cost of Unaccountable Accounting; It's Time to Put the "Independent" Back in "Independent Audit."
Magazine article by Scott Shuger, Ned Martel; Washington Monthly, Vol. 21, January 1990
Subjects: Accountants--Moral and ethical aspects, Auditing--Malpractice, Lincoln Savings and Loan Association--Accounting and auditing, United States. Securities and Exchange Commission--Laws, regulations, etc., ZZZZ Best Co.--Accounting and auditing
...by Scott Shuger , Ned Martel "You need an operation," says the...jargon for EVERYTHINGS OK OVER HERE - to Charles Keatings Lincoln Savings and Loan...editor of The Washington Monthly. Ned Martel is an intern at the Monthly.
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Second-guessing the Future
Magazine article by Stephen Jay Gould; Natural History, Vol. 107, September 1998
Subjects: Future, Millennium, Social conditions & trends, Wallace, Alfred Russel, Year 2000
...Islam peaked and began an inevitable decline when Charles Martel beat the Moors at Poitiers in 732. Britannica remarks...never had serious goals across the Pyrenees. In 732, Charles Martel encountered not a Muslim army, but a summer raiding...
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The Ebb and Flow of Global Liberty
Magazine article by Michael Novak; The American Spectator, Vol. 40, June 2007
Subjects: Civil rights, Democracy, Failure, Islamic law, Mosques & temples, Muslims, Religion, Success, Terrorism
...invasion of France not been halted by Charles the Hammer (Charles Martel) at Tours in 732 A.D., are now arising there peacefully...and a comfortable breeze. Thirteen centuries after Charles Martels surprising victory, the strong horse of Islamic militancy...
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Listening to Brigitte Bardot
Magazine article by George Neumayr; The American Spectator, Vol. 36, June 2003
Subjects: Bardot, Brigitte, Books, Islam, Modernization, Social change, Social life & customs
...Islamic mosques spread "while our church bells fall silent for want of priests." Where, she asks, has the spirit of Charles Martel gone? "I am against the Islamisation of France. For centuries our forefathers, the ancients, our grandfathers, our...
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The Once & Future Christendom
Magazine article by James P. Pinkerton; American Conservative, Vol. 6, September 10, 2007
Subjects: Christian Islamic relations, Europe, Islam, Muslims, Novels, Social conditions & trends, Terrorism, Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973), Writers
...their most virtuous Martian was Charles Martel, King of the Franks, who defeated...destruction. The French have remembered "Charles the Hammer" ever since, even naming...from Vercingetorix to Charlemagne (Martels grandson) to Napoleon, the French...
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Iraq and History
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 10, 2005
...a time. The Western leader was Charles Martel; his son Pepin was father of the...falters, we are back to the days of Charles Martel, Pepin and Charlemagne. Only worse...this way. This week in 732 A.D., Charles Martels coffee didnt have time to get...
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An Islamic Europe?
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 28, 2005
...in Switzerland, who says the battle of Tours, where Charles Martel and the Franks in 732 turned back the Muslim armies...anti-Americanism, fanned into flames in the 1960s by Frances Charles de Gaulle and a corresponding hatred of Israel in Europe...
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The Nazi Connection
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 15, 2007
...spirituality" is unknown, the following quote, recorded on Aug. 28, 1942, clearly shows where his sympathies lay: "Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers - already you see, the world had fallen in the hands of the Jews, so gutless a thing...
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TIME OUT: Name the Year
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), November 11, 2008
...2016001 or log on to www.journallive.co.uk/buyaphoto who what where when? WHO was the father of Carolingian ruler Charles Martel? WHAT Jewish religious movement was founded by the Baal Shem Tov? WHERE was the country with which the North African...
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Nazis and Islamists; Their Wars against America and the World
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 7, 2007
...nationalists who today take their inspiration from Charles Martel, the Germanic leader who beat the Arabs in 732 at...explicitly wished Martel had lost the battle. "Had Charles Martel not been victorious," Hitler told his inner crowd...
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Charles Martel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHARLES MARTEL martel O.Fr.,=Charles the Hammer, 688? 741, Frankish ruler, illegitimate son of...and began the reconquest of Burgundy, Aquitaine, and Provence. Charles Martel defeated the Spanish Muslims at the battle of Tours (732 33...
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Carolingians
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Dagobert I. His descendants, Pepin of Heristal , Charles Martel , Carloman , and Pepin the Short , continued...the East Franks) until 911, his successors being Charles III (Charles the Fat), Arnulf , and Louis the Child . The...
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Pepin the Short
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PEPIN THE SHORT (Pepin III), c.714 768, first Carolingian king of the Franks (751 68), son of Charles Martel and father of Charlemagne . Succeeding his father as mayor of the palace (741), he ruled Neustria, Burgundy, and Provence, while...
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Charlemagne
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Carolingian king of the Franks (768 814). King of the Franks Elder son of Pepin the Short and a grandson of Charles Martel , Charlemagne shared with his brother Carloman in the succession to his fathers kingdom. At Carlomans death (771...
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Pepin of Heristal
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of the palace (680 714) of the Frankish territory of Austrasia ; grandson of Pepin of Landen and father of Charles Martel . After defeating the nobles of Neustria at the battle of Tertry (687), Pepin made himself mayor, or ruler, of all...
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