Notes for Albert Ellis LUTZ


1852 Mormon Pioneer
Source : Deseret News Vol. 2 p. 90 Sept-18-1852 microfilm 0026586

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Notes for Alma LUTZ


Alma Lutz was one of the early pioneers of Moab, Utah arriving in 1884.Alma Lutz enlisted i n the Military on the 22nd of April, 1867 as aPrivate in Company "D" Orson Miles, Captain. He was discharged at SaltLake City on the 6th of August, 1867. He applied to the Dept. of th eInterior, Bureau of Pensions for a Pension for his Indian War service onthe 19th of July , 1917, he received his Pension until his death on 25November 1922 at Provo, Utah.

Source : Copy of his Pension Papers

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Notes for Charles "The Hammer" MARTEL


Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia 714-741
Mayor of the Palace of Neustria 719-720
Mayor of the Palace of Burgundy 719-720 

Charles Martel became Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia when his father, Pepin II, died in 714. That year he was imprisoned by
his step-mother Plectudis, but escaped later in the year to lead the Austrasian and Neustrian nobles. The next year, the new King
Chilperic II refused to act as a puppet to the nobles, and was backed by the Aquitaine duke Eudo, who was by then
semi-independent from Frankish sovergnty. In 719, Charles defeated Eudo and took Chilperic hostage. Eudo's terms for mercy
were that Chilperic would be recognized as sole ruler of the Franks, and the Charles would control all royal offices (i.e. as
Mayor). Eudo had no other choice but to accept. In 720, Chilperic II died, Theuderic IV became king, Charles was stripped of his
positions, Eudo was able to attain full independence, and Charles was preoccupied with pushing back Saxon invaders across the
Rhine. 

The next year, Eudo defeated the advancing Moslem armies and made peace with them, however in 725 they attacked Septimania
and invaded Burgundy, drawn by the wealth of the Catholic Church. In 731, the Spanish governor Abd ar-Rahman, much loved by
the Moslem people, invaded and easily overran all of Aquitaine. The next year he took Poitiers and marched to Tours, where he
was soundly beaten by Mayor Charles, and Rahman was killed in the battle. Three years later Eudo died, and Charles took
supreme control of Gaul. In 737, Provence invited back the Moslems, who were defeated by Charles and his younger brother
Hildebrand, then pushed out of Gaul forever. In 741, Charles died.

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