♂ Charles Martel

688 - 741

 

Duke of the Franks, Mayor of the Palace

Charles Martel
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Parents
Pepin of Herstal
Pepin of Herstal
0635 - 0714
Spouse
Rotrude of Trier
Rotrude of Trier
0690 - 0724
Children
Pepin The Short
Pepin The Short
0714 - 0768
Timeline 3
descendants 71
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Timeline

Charles Martel » Timeline

688

birth


Herstal, Belgium ⇓
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688 • Eadberht is appointed bishop of Lindisfarne (Northumbria). He founds the holy shrine to his predecessor Cuthbert, a place that becomes a centre of great pilgrimage in later years.
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714


Age: 26y

birth of child


Pepin The Short
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714 • Emperor Xuan Zong forbids all commercial vendors and shops in the Chinese capital city of Chang'an to copy and sell Buddhist sutras, so that the emperor can give the clergy of the Buddhist monasteries the sole right to distribute written sutras to the laity.

741


Oct 22
Age: 53y
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