…Maguelonne, which he views as potential strongholds…

…Maguelonne, which he views as potential strongholds of the Saracens.

He has accomplished his primary goals by destroying the Arab armies.

The Arabs are temporarily contained to the city of Narbonne, though a second expedition will be needed later this year to regain control of Provence after Arab forces return.

According to Paul the Deacon's Historia Langobardorum, the Arabs retreated when they learned that Martel had formed an alliance with the Lombards.

Martel will spend his remaining years—he has only four more to live—in setting up and strengthening the administrative structure that will become the Carolingian Empire, and the feudal state that will persist through the so-called Dark Ages.

His son will return in 759 and finish his father's work by taking Narbonne and driving the Emirate of Cordova back over the Pyrenees.