1295), daughter of Rudolph I, King of Germany. The empire encompassed the territories of much of modern day France, western Germany, Switzerland, as well as Belgium and the Netherlands, and was the dominant Christian power in Western Europe at the time. Pepin, who died in 714, had outlived his two legitimate sons, Drogon and Grimoald, and to Theodoald, a son of the latter and then only six years old, fell the burdensome inheritance of the Frankish monarchy. Charles Martel was a ruler of the Carolingian Frankish Empire in the early 8 th century AD. Charles Martel (Latin: Carolus Martellus) (ca. Д¬harles was apparently known personally to Dante: in the Divine Comedy, the poet speaks warmly of and to Charles's spirit when they meet in the Heaven of Venus (in Paradiso VIII). at Quierzy on the Oise, October 21, 741.He was the natural son of Pepin of Herstal and a woman named Alpaide or Chalpalde. His son, Charles (or Charles Robert), later succeeded in winning the throne of Hungary. Charles Martel was, however, successful in asserting his claim in the Kingdom of Croatia, then in personal union with Hungary.Д¬harles Martel died of the plague in Naples. He never managed to govern the Kingdom of Hungary, where an agnate of the ГЃrpГЎd dynasty, his cousin Andrew III of Hungary ruled at that time. The 18-year-old Charles Martel was set up by Pope Nicholas IV and the ecclesiastical party as the titular King of Hungary (1290вЂ“1295) as successor of his maternal uncle, the childless Ladislaus IV of Hungary against whom the Pope had already earlier declared a crusade. Charles Martel ( Hungarian: Martell KГЎroly 8 September 1271 вЂ“ 12 August 1295) of the Angevin dynasty was the eldest son of king Charles II of Naples and Mary of Hungary, the daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary.

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