♂ 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

688

688 Alahis, duke of Brescia, starts a civil war in Northern Italy. He besieges Cunipert on an island in Lake Como (Lombardy), who breaks out with Piedmontese troops.
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714


Age: 26y
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.

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