Charlemagne Part 2 - Conquest of Iberia.

today we're going to continue our series on the history of cholo main the sources used is listed in the description below I'm following history and in this video we're going to cover chala meas military conquests in Iberia and its aftermath stay tuned after having declared himself king of the Lombards Charlemagne left a garrison at pavia as well as installing a few local counts to better govern the realm with Lombardi and nobility in his absence however not all of the Lombardy and lords were content with paying homage to the Frankish king in the north in 776 the dukes of freely and Spoleto started a rebellion in a determination to end the Carolinian lordship over Italy Charlemagne got word of this early on and were thus able to once again much down into Italy with a new army and made short work of the rebellious dukes after which northern Italy would faithfully be his in order to effectively govern his growing kingdom as well as to give his heirs practical experience in being regions Charlemagne appointed his son Louis as King of Aquitaine and his son carlomon as king of Italy with a likely intention that he would rule their own separate realms when he was dead in 777 Charlemagne gather his sons as well as his other vessels at a royal diet in the city of paderborn the purpose of the diet was a determined loss concerning the recently subdued Saxons in the Northeast however while discussing legal questions with his vessels Charlemagne was greeted by group of unexpected guests before him suitor representatives of the Muslim rulers of the Iberian cities of Zaragoza Girona Barcelona and who Eska offering him an interesting bargain in the east the former Umayyad Caliphate had been overthrown and replaced by the Abbasid Caliphate however down in southern Iberia the former exiled member of umeå dynasty abdel-rahman had established himself as the Emir of Cordoba in 756 and it launched a series of successful campaigns to conquer the rest of the Iberian Peninsula the Abbasids supporters in the north finding themselves cornered between Francia and Cordoba had chosen to turn to chala main offering their homage to Frankish king in exchange for military support against the Umayyads seeing an opportunity to extend Christendom as well as his own influence Charlemagne agreed to the bargain and in 778 to Frankish armies much soft over the pie reen's while being on the road Tiberio Charlemagne had taken the opportunity to increase his power in the by that time relatively self-governing lands of the Basque Duchy of Ascona by appointing local supporters to key positions in the region as well as demonstrating his power by destroying the city walls of the vasco nion capital called Pamplona which as we will later see greatly angered the best game people upon arriving in northern iberia the Franks were greeted by the governors of Barcelona Girona and who Eska but upon arriving in Zaragoza the two armies halted the governor of the city had chosen to undo the bargain with the Franks and Saragosa skates remained closed show me czar me not being prepared for a siege did nonetheless make an attempt on the city but Saragosa held out and soon a news arrived that Barcelona also had turned against the Christians furious Solomon gave the order to withdraw back to Francia on the 15th of August 778 while having campaigned in Iberia for a few months Shaunie's army entered a mountain pass a Trancas veis the pass being too narrow with thick forests covering its jagged hillsides Charlemagne needed to spread out his army four miles into Finn columns as it march through as the Franks moshed for the mountain pass a force of busks concealed by the forest watched the army from the ledges above upon nightfall when the bulk of the Francie and Army had moved for the pass the boss spell upon the rearguard peppering them with boulders and arrows the rearguard being taken by surprise quickly broke in confusion and was separated from the main army single chance to get revenge upon the Franks for revenging Babylonia the boss to rush upon them with drawn weapons the Franks stood the ground and fought fiercely but were inevitably overwhelmed and cut down when word reached Charlemagne or what had happened it was too late and the Basking forces had vanished into the night the campaign in Iberia had been a failure with a person gaining the most of the outcome being the only at Amir or Cordoba who soon after shala means departure marched north with a vast army and executed the governors who had opposed him there by laying most of Iberia under Umayyad rule however the Muslim cities in the north continue to post cordovan a 40 enough issues to turn to Francia for help Charlemagne being occupied by other conflicts were unable to answer their quests but his son King Louis who were in charge of the southern border were quick to seize upon these opportunities to expand south from the early 1780s to the late 1790s several of the cities in Northeast and Iberia such as Corona Cardona or Sona and Orgill either fell or were handed over to the franks under governor's rebelled against Cordoba in 797 Barcelona the greatest city in the region came under lewis control when said its governor rebelled against cordoba and upon failing handed over the city to the franks these small and gradual conquests winning time be consolidated into the spanish marsh which was a military buffer zone protecting Francia from the Umayyads in the south today i hope you learned something new about solomon and don't forget that if you liked this video hit the like share and subscribe buttons [Music]