Comments by "jean-louis pech" (@jean-louispech4921) on "Knowledgia" channel.

There was a lot of marriages between Muslim leaders and Spanish princess. A classic thing in the low middle age, where a foreign conqueror create a link with the local population by marriage. And the reverse was true. This is why many Europeans kings and queens have the caliph Othman as far ancestor.
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@EM-tx3ly Yes uthman the arab caliph married with daughters of Muhammed.... but from another woman.
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@EM-tx3ly this is from genealogy of nobles in Europe . It is simple : the first caliph in Spain was a descendant of Uthman , an Omayyad. Along the generation s : caliphs and Arab elites takes some christian Spanish woman as wife, while some kings and nobles take some Arab women from the Omayyad family as wife. At the end you have the caliph Uthman among the ancestries of Spanish kings, queens, and nobles. And because in Europe you have a large network of wedding from Spain to Armenia for the nobles , from Italy to Norway, you have the Arab lineage spreading across all the christian Europe. Then this is why the Queen Elizabeth II has the caliph Uthman as ancestry, for example, from my genealogical source.
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@Canthary May be because his Mother is spanish.
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@refractorymercury it took time before Franks go destroy the Muslim base of operations . While only peasants , or non important peoples, were taken as slave, they were not worried about the raids. When a famous priest was captive, Frank lords were reacting.
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The French Riviera was molded by Muslims raids, with villages built on heights of hills and mountains , like in Corsica.
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 @refractorymercury i speak about land raids from a city or village. After it was only maritime raids from Maghreb.
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@refractorymercury Along the coasts of south of France there are little towers for warning about raids.
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@maciejgronowski When i speak about Kings and nobles it is about spanish Christians. And you have a descendant of an Almohad caliph becoming Christian.
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At the time of the Muslim invasion of south France, Bordeaux was an independent land, ruled by Odo duke of Aquitaine . He have won the big battle of Toulouse , killing the Muslim leader. The lost for Muslims was so hard, that they made a peace time, and Odo marrying with a Berber princess. An he is at the source of the battle of Tours, by calling Charles Martel , who was a political enemy , against Muslim invasion of his lands.
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The real victories agaisnt Muslim invading armies in France were : Battle of Toulouse , won by Duke Odo of Aquitaine , in 721, agaisnt Muslims invading the realm of Aquitaine. The battle of the river Berre , won by Charles Martel in 735 , where he took by surprise a landing Muslims Army coming from Spain , for defending the city of Narbonne from the siege made by Charles Martel. After this battle, no Muslim invading army put his feet in France, only raiding parties. The battle of Tour is more a symbolic victory.
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