Marsiglioor Marsilius. A Saracen king who plotted the attack upon
Roland, under “the tree on which Judas hanged himself.” With a force of
600,000 men, divided into three armies, he attacked the paladin and
overthrew him, but was in turn overthrown by Charlemagne, and hanged on
the very tree beneath which he had arranged the attack. ( Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Marsiglio from Infoplease:
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