Battle of Tet

Major correction: no French/English Wikipedia page attests a pitched “Battle of the Têt” near Perpignan in 739. What is documented for 739, notably via English Wikipedia (Battle of the River Berre) and Paul the Deacon (Historia Langobardorum), is a second Frankish expedition to expel Maurontius from Marseille and regain Provence after the 736–737 campaigns. Martel allied with the Lombards; per Paul the Deacon, the Arabs withdrew on learning of that alliance. Invented strengths and the tale of intercepting a Muslim army in the Têt valley are removed for lack of Wikipedia source.

After the siege of Narbonne (737) and the Berre victory, Charles Martel still had to reduce Maurontius, who had rebelled from Marseille and compromised Frankish rear lines during the siege. English Wikipedia places this Provençal “cleanup” expedition in 739. The corpus entry “Battle of the Têt” reused an unsourced fight on the River Têt (Pyrénées-Orientales): neither the Têt article, nor Berre/Narbonne notices, nor the Umayyad invasion of Gaul mention it. The 739 chronological entry is kept but recentred on attested facts (Provence, Maurontius, Lombards).

No flanking manoeuvre or surprise attack in a “deep Têt valley” is attested in Wikipedia. Attested operations: Frankish expedition in Provence against Maurontius; diplomatic/military pressure reinforced by the Lombard alliance, which, per Paul the Deacon, sufficed to make the Arabs pull back. Narbonne stayed untaken until 759. Any detailed Têt tactics were conjectural and have been removed.

Maurontius is expelled / Provence is brought back under Frankish control per the English Wikipedia account. End of Charles Martel’s major southern operations before his death (741). Narbonne remained Umayyad until the long 752–759 siege under Pepin the Short. The 739 episode shows that the “end” of Muslim presence north of the Pyrenees is not Poitiers 732 or Berre 737 alone, but a prolonged process.