French Paladins

[Watchman]

Depends. 'Cause if you assume to be the theory about Arthur and his fellows to be a badly corrupted legend about the late-Roman warlord Arturius Castus in Britain and his Sarmatian-descended heavy cavalry fighting against the Angles, Saxes and sundry, they're the older ones. The Moors only became an issue for the Franks in the late 7th century if not flat out the 8th, and Charlemagne was only around a bit later... And he spent rather more time fighting other Germanic peoples to his east plus apparently also the Avars than ever the Moors, who were in any case preoccupied with internal strife and the small but troublesome Christian princedoms holding out in the northern mountains of the peninsula.

[Colovion]

It wasn't the Moors that slaughtered his rear-gaurd anyway. It was the crafty Basques. He had tried to take Spain from the Moors, failing - he was returning with what spoils they had gained from the conquests and victories he had made. The only true reason for returning to the Rhine was because of a new rebellion by the devious Saxons. He sped on with some of his army while leaving the treasure carts with a number of paladins.