23-08-676 ?; 23-08-678 ?; 23-08-685 ?; 685 ?; 23-08-688 ?; stamvader en naamgever van de dynastie der Karolingen
Austrasia; Lorraine (Lotharingen, Lothringen, Lothiers), Austrasia; ca 715; 742
15-10-741 ?; 22-10-741; Königspfalz; 26-10-741 ?; 30-10-741 ?; 29-12-741 ?
Abadía de St. Denis, París; Monastery Saint Denis; Seine
(1) Hij heeft/had een relatie met Rotrude van Hesbaye en Trier.
Kind(eren):
(2) Hij is getrouwd met Chrotrude (Rotrude) de Hesbaye et Trâ®ves.
Zij zijn getrouwd tussen 705 en 713, hij was toen 18 jaar oud.
Zij zijn getrouwd januari 713 te Moselle (Maasgau, Maasgouw), Meuse, Lorraine, Francia (Frankenrijk) , hij was toen 26 jaar oud. Zij zijn getrouwd ca 713 te Metz, Moselle, Lorraine (Lotharingen), Kingdom of Austrasia, Francia (Frankenrijk) , hij was toen 26 jaar oud. Zij zijn getrouwd ca 721 te Quierzy, Aisne. Quierzy Castle; (Ciersy), Picardie, Francia (Frankenrijk), hij was toen 34 jaar oud. Zij zijn getrouwd te Herstal, Hâ®rsta (Heristal), Liâ®ge, Wallonie, Belgiâ´ (Austrasia).Kind(eren):
(3) Hij is getrouwd met Rotrude von Haspengau und Trier.
Zij zijn getrouwd januari 713 te Moselle (Maasgau, Maasgouw), Meuse, Lorraine, Francia (Frankenrijk)
Zij zijn getrouwd ca 713 te Metz, Moselle, Lorraine (Lotharingen), Kingdom of Austrasia, Francia (Frankenrijk) , hij was toen 26 jaar oud. , hij was toen 26 jaar oud. Zij zijn getrouwd ca 721 te Quierzy, Aisne. Quierzy Castle; (Ciersy), Picardie, Francia (Frankenrijk), hij was toen 34 jaar oud. Zij zijn getrouwd rond 0721 te Quierzy, Aisne. Quierzy Castle; (Ciersy), Picardie, Francia (Frankenrijk).Kind(eren):
Wat gebeurde er op 23 augustus?
676 ·Äì Karel Martâ®l geboren.
Hij was hofmeier van het Frankische Rijk. Hij reorganiseerde het Frankische leger en bestuur en wist daarmee met succes zowel zijn binnenlandse als buitenlandse tegenstanders, met name de Arabieren, Friezen en Saksen het hoofd te bieden. Zijn macht werd zo groot dat hij de plaats van de Merovingische koningen innam, zonder zichzelf tot koning uit te roepen. Karel wordt beschouwd als stamvader en naamgever van de Karolingen. Hij was de grootvader van Karel de Grote.
Hij overleed op 22 oktober 741.
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Life Sketch
TITLE
Mayor of the Palace: Manager of the household and power behind the throne in Austrasia. Acording to Wikipedia,
The mayor of the palace held and wielded the real and effective power to make decisions affecting the kingdom, while the kings had been reduced to performing merely ceremonial functions, which made them little more than figureheads (rois fainâ©ants, "do-nothing kings"). The office may be compared to that of the peshwa, shâçgun or prime minister, all of which have similarly been the real powers behind some ceremonial monarchs.
In Austrasia, the mayoral office became hereditary in the family of the Pippinids. In 687, after victory over the western kingdom of Neustria, the Austrasian mayor, Pippin of Herstal, took the title Duke of the Franks to signify his augmented rule. His son and successor, Charles Martel, ceased bothering with the faâßade of a king, and the last four years of his reign (743·Äì47) were an interregnum, after which the Pippinids assumed the title and power of a king themselves. See also Royal Administration of Merovingian and Carolingian Dynasties.
WIKIPEDIA
Charles Martel (c. 688 ·Äì 22 October 741) was a Frankish statesman and military leader who, as Duke and Prince of the Franks and Mayor of the Palace, was de facto ruler of Francia from 718 until his death.[3][4][5][6]
The son of the Frankish statesman Pepin of Herstal and a noblewoman named Alpaida, Charles successfully asserted his claims to power as successor to his father as the power behind the throne in Frankish politics. Continuing and building on his father's work, he restored centralized government in Francia and began the series of military campaigns that re-established the Franks as the undisputed masters of all Gaul.
After work to establish a unity in Gaul, Charles' attention was called to foreign conflicts, and dealing with the Islamic advance into Western Europe was a foremost concern. Arab and Berber Islamic forces had conquered Spain (711), crossed the Pyrenees (720), seized a major dependency of the Visigoths (721·Äì725),[7] and after intermittent challenges, under Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Governor-General of al-Andalus, advanced toward Gaul and on Tours, "the holy town of Gaul"; in October 732, the army of the Umayyad Caliphate led by Al Ghafiqi met Frankish and Burgundian forces under Charles in an area between the cities of Tours and Poitiers (modern north-central France[8]), leading to a decisive, historically important Frankish victory known as the Battle of Tours (or ma'arakat Balâ¢â¡Ïâ ash-Shuhadâ¢, Battle of the Palace of Martyrs), ending the "last of the great Arab invasions of France," a military victory termed "brilliant" on the part of Charles.[9][10][11][12][13]
Charles further took the offensive after Tours, destroying fortresses at Agde, Bâ©ziers and Maguelonne, and engaging Islamic forces at Nimes, though ultimately failing to recover Narbonne (737) or to fully reclaim the Visigoth's Narbonensis.[9] He thereafter made significant further external gains against fellow Christian realms, establishing Frankish control over Bavaria, Alemannia, and Frisia, and compelling some of the Saxon tribes to offer tribute (738).[9]
Apart from the military endeavours, Charles is considered to be a founding figure of the European Middle Ages.[14] Skilled as an administrator as well as a warrior, he is credited with a seminal role in the emerging responsibilities of the knights of courts, and so in the development of the Frankish system of feudalism.[15] Moreover, Charles·Äîa great patron of Saint Boniface·Äîmade the first attempt at reconciliation between the Franks and the Papacy.[citation needed] Pope Gregory III, whose realm was being menaced by the Lombards, wished Charles to become the defender of the Holy See and offered him the Roman consulship, though Charles declined.[9][16][17][18]
Although Charles never assumed the title of king, he divided Francia, like a king, between his sons Carloman and Pepin. The latter became the first of the Carolingians, the family of Charles Martel, to become king. Charles' grandson, Charlemagne, extended the Frankish realms to include much of the West, and became the first Emperor in the West since the fall of Rome. Therefore, on the basis of his achievements, Charles is seen as laying the groundwork for the Carolingian Empire.[5] In summing up the man, Gibbon wrote that Charles was "the hero of the age," whereas Guerard describes him as being the "champion of the Cross against the Crescent.".
Charles was the son of Pepin of Herstal and his second wife Alpaida.[21][22][23][24] He had a brother named Childebrand, who later became the Frankish dux (that is, duke) of Burgundy.
In older historiography, it was common to describe Charles as "illegitimate". This is still widely repeated in popular culture today. But, polygamy was a legitimate Frankish practice at the time and it is unlikely that Charles was considered "illegitimate". It is likely that the interpretation of "illegitimacy" is an idea derived of Pepin's first wife's (Plectrude's) desire to see her progeny as heirs to Pepin's power.[21][22]
After the reign of Dagobert I (629·Äì639) the Merovingians effectively ceded power to the Pippinids, who ruled the Frankish realm of Austrasia in all but name as Mayors of the Palace. They controlled the royal treasury, dispensed patronage, and granted land and privileges in the name of the figurehead king. Charles' father, Pepin, was the second member of the family to rule the Franks. Pepin was able to unite all the Frankish realms by conquering Neustria and Burgundy. He was the first to call himself Duke and Prince of the Franks, a title later taken up by Charles.
Family and children
Charles had an active family life, about which accounts have been written. Charles Martel married twice, his first wife being Rotrude of Treves, daughter of Leudwinus, Count of Treves. They had the following children:
Hiltrud,
Carloman,[29]:50
Landrade, also rendered Landres,
Auda, also called Aldana or Alane, and
Pepin the Short, also called Pippin,[29]:50
whose further information can be found at their corresponding articles here. Most of the children married, and had children in those marriages, and so Charles' line was carried on. For instance, Hiltrud married Odilo I (a Duke of Bavaria), Landrade, married Sigrand (a Count of Hesbania), and Auda, married Thierry IV (a Count of Autun and Toulouse). Charles also married a second time, to Swanhild, and they had a single child, Grifo.[29]:50
Finally, Charles Martel also had known a mistress, Ruodhaid, with whom he had the children Bernard, Hieronymus, and Remigius, the latter who became an archbishop of Rouen.
Note
Charles Martel
688?-741, Frankish ruler, illegitimate son of PEPIN of Heristal and grandfather of CHARLEMAGNE. Although never king, he ruled as mayor of the palace (714-41). He united all MEROVINGIAN kingdoms under his rule and halted the European invasion of the MOORS. His sons, PEPIN the Short and Carloman, divided the Frankish lands at his death.
Derniâ®re modification : le 11 septembre 2017, par
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!SOURCES: 1. Tab. Gen. Souv., France 22, Tab. III 2. Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 5 3. Americana Am. Pub. F, v. 32, p. 582 4. plan 128. Ancest., Eng. 116. p. 171 5. Ahen Zu Karl der Grossen, Germ. FH G94, p. 28
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General Notes:
Carolingian ruler of the Frankish kingdom of Austrasia (in present northeastern France and southwestern Germany). Charles, whose surname means "the hammer," was the son of Pepin of Herstal and the grandfather of Charlemagne. Pepin was mayor of the palace under the last kings of the Merovingian dynasty. After Pepin died in 714, Charles, an illegitimate son, was imprisoned by his father's widow, but he escaped in 715 and was proclaimed mayor of the palace by the Austrasians. A war between Austrasia and the Frankish kingdom of Neustria (now part of France) followed, and at the end of it Charles became the undisputed ruler of all the Franks. Although he was engaged in wars against the Alamanni, Bavarians, and Saxons, his greatest achievements were against the Muslims from Spain, who invaded France in 732. Charles defeated them near Poitiers in a great battle in which the Muslim leader, Abd-ar-Rahman, the emir of Spain, was killed. The progress of Islam, which had filled all Christendom with alarm, was thus checked for a time. Charles drove the Muslims out of the RhÓøΩne valley in 739, when they had again advanced into France as far as Lyon, leaving them nothing of their possessions north of the Pyrenees beyond the Aude River. Charles died in Quierzy, on the Oise River, leaving the kingdom divided between his two sons, Carloman and Pepin the Short.
Noted events in his life were:
·Ä¢ He was a Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia.
Charles married Chrotrud. (Chrotrud died in 724.)
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