Charles Martel

Charles Martel , was born in Belgium on 23 August 686 and died on 22 October 741. He was Mayor of the palace of the kingdom of Austrasia from 715 to his death . Translational death of his father in 714, Charles, who was 29 and went on to occupy the position of mayor of the palace . But being a bastard , Plectrude , wife of Pepin , instigated toppings power to take his son who Thiaud . The provinces of the kingdom did not accept that a woman the ruled , and the problems began to burst , first in Neustria in 715, when Rainfroi the mayor of the palace of Neustria beat Thiaud Cuise in the forest and led his troops to the banks of Mosa . In 732 Martel has to face the Muslim armies of the governor of Al- Andalus, Abd ar-Rahman . The Iberian Peninsula was occupied by the Arabs and their allies from 711 Berbers , who continued their advance north across the Pyrenees. In 725 they had conquered much of Languedoc and Burgundy today .