In the nineteenth century , the German historian Heinrich Brunner argued that Charles had confiscated church lands in order to fund military reforms that allowed him to defeat the Arab conquests , in this way brilliantly combining two traditions about the ruler . But Fouracre has argued that " ... there is not enough evidence to show that there was a decisive change either in the way in which the Franks fought , or in the way in which they organised the resources needed to support their warriors . " Many twentieth-century European historians continued to develop Gibbon 's perspectives , such as French medievalist Christian Pfister , who wrote in 1911 that Similarly , William E. Watson who wrote of the battle 's importance in Frankish and world history in 1993 , suggested that Other recent historians however argue that the importance of the battle is dramatically overstated , both for European history in general and for Charles Martel 's reign in particular . This view is typified by Alessandro Barbero , who in 2004 wrote , Similarly , in 2002 Tomaž Mastnak wrote : More recently , the memory of Charles Martel has been appropriated by far right and white nationalist groups , such as the ' Charles Martel Group ' in France , and by Australia-born Brenton Harrison Tarrant , the alleged perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings at Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch , New Zealand in 2019
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