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Karl (Charles) MARTEL
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Karl (Charles) MARTEL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
- Born: 676, Heristal, , , Belgium
- Marriage: Rotrude DUCHESS OF AUSTRASIA before 713
- Died: 10/22/741, Quierzy, Aisne, FRA at age 65 8
 General Notes:
His birth date is listed differently in various sources. Weiss gives it as 689 and Encylcopedia Britanica gives it as 688. He was the Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia. In 732, he won the battle over the Saracens at Poitiers. Though he never reigned himself, he helped bring his sons Carloman and Pepin the Short into ruling as joint Kings of France. (C-1440, E) 9 10
Karl married Rotrude DUCHESS OF AUSTRASIA, daughter of Leutwinus BISHOP OF TREVES and Unknown, before 713. (Rotrude DUCHESS OF AUSTRASIA was born about 690 in , Austrasia, FRA and died in 724.)
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Sources
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Coats, As the Tree Grows (unpublished).
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John S. Wurtz, Magna Charta Pedigrees of Barons.
3
United Ancestries Linked Pedigrees CD 100 (Automated Archives).
4
Laurence Gardner, Bloodline of the Holy Grail.
5
Steve Pearson to Linda Coate E-mail letter dated Oct. 23, 1997 forwarding lineage provided by Eyelyn Easson at spkphpsp@gte.net (Linda Coate files, C-1346).
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Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (Seventh Edition, Genealogical Publishing Co.)
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Burke, Pat, Email dated 2002 from patburke@guam.net.
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Blazier, Jo Ann, The Howards, From England to the Ohio Valley (c2002).
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Prokasy, Bill, Email dated 2000 from wprokasy@arches.uga.edu.
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Natalelli-Waloszek, Annie, Email dated 2000+ at Xanadu2@Wanadoo.fr.
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