In 737, at the end of his military campaign in Provence and Septimania, the King of the Frank – Theuderic IV died. Martel named himself as maior Domus and princeps et dux Francorum, and he did not appoint a new king and no one famous. the throne was left vacant until Martel’s death. Sorry I’m late my husband had to poop wife life shirt. As the historian Charles Oman says (The Dark Ages, Page 297) “, he is not interested in titles or ordination as long as real power is in his hands.” Gibbon said Charles Martel “was just a prime minister or a duke of the Franks, but he deserved to be the father of a new generation of kings” that he did. Gibbon also talks about him “in the danger of the country he summoned all his country’s forces with his personal purple prestige”
