PersonAD 732
Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi
Governor of al-Andalus who crossed the Pyrenees into Francia in 732 and was killed at the Battle of Tours–Poitiers
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The army of Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi, governor of al-Andalus, advancing north across the Pyrenees, was defeated between Tours and Poitiers by the Frankish mayor of the palace Charles Martel.
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- Charles MartelAD 688 – AD 741
Mayor of the palace of the Frankish kingdom who defeated the Muslim army at Tours–Poitiers in 732; his authority paved the way for his son Pepin to found the Carolingian dynasty
Themes this person appears in
- Medieval Europe and ByzantiumAD 476 – 1077
From the fall of Rome in the West to Canossa — the feudal West built by the Franks and the papacy, Byzantium as heir of Rome, and a church divided east and west
- The Rise of the Islamic WorldAD 570 – 1055
From the revelation to Muhammad to the Seljuk entry into Baghdad — 450 years in which a new faith from Arabia built a civilisation stretching from Iberia to Central Asia and reached as far as Silla by sea