522. Warlords of the West: A Clash of Ice and Fire (Part 3)

1433.552 - 1458.958 Tom Holland

So for the Umayyads, it's a kind of border region, a marcher region. And Odo wants to stabilize his southern frontier. And Uthman wants to carve Catalonia out as a kind of independent fiefdom. He wants to rule it under his own steam rather than in subordination to the Umayyad governor in Toledo. And the alliance is signed in 730. And to seal it, Odo gives Uthman his daughter in marriage.