Aigolander united under his banner too many nations to count: Saracens, Moors, Moabites, Ethiopians, Africans, Spaniards of mixed-race, and Persians. He had King Texaphin of Arabia, Kind Urabell of Alexandra in Egypt, King Avitus of Bugia in Algeria, Kind Ospin of Algarve in Portugal, King Fatun of Barbary in Libya, King Ailis of Morocco, King Aphinorgus of Majorca, King Maimon of of Mecca, King Abraham of Sibilia, and King Altumaoir of Cordoba.
King Aigolander descended on the city of Agen in Gascony in France, and captured it. He ordered Charlemagne to come to him in peace with a very few knights, and promised him gold and silver and treasure of sixty loaded horses, if he surrendered. He was saying this, because he wanted to see Charlemagne so that later he would recognise him and be able to kill him in battle.
Charlemagne understood this, and advanced to four miles of the city with two thousand strong troops. He hid them there, and continued with sixty soldiers to the hill near the city, where he could see the town. He left them there, changed out of his good clothes, left his lance, put a shield across his back in the way that wartime ambassadors did in those days, and wth one soldier went into the city.
Some soldiers came out to meet them and asked who they were.
‘We are ambassadors’, said Charlemagne, ‘Sent by Charlemagne to your King Aigolander.’
They were brought into the city to King Aigolander.
‘Charles sent us to you. He has come himself, as you ordered, with sixty soldiers, and wants to soldier for your cause, provided you can deliver what you promised. Go to him with sixty soldiers to match his, talk to him and make peace.’
Aigolander armed himself, and told them to go back to Charlemagne and to expect him. He did not yet know it was Charlemagne himself to whom he was speaking. However Charlemagne now knew him and reconnoitered the city, looking at which part would be most vulnerable to capture. He saw which kings were there, before returning to his sixty knights and then back to the 2,000.
Aigolander quickly followed with 7,000 soldiers and tried to suround Charlemagne, who himself had to turn and flee. Charlemange returned to France to gather a huge army, to return and besiege Agen.
He sat surrounding the city for six months. By the seventh month he had built the right siege engines including a wooden siege tower and a mangonal catapult. One night, Aigolander snuck out through the sewers with the other kings and the great and good of his army, and crossed the Garonne River, to escape the hands of Charlemagne.
On the following day, Charlemagne entered Agen in triumph. Many of the Saracans were slaughtered with the sword. Many others escaped across the Garonne with a great charge. Ten thousand Saracens were put to the sword.
[Hyde suggests here that Charlemagne fought his way in to Agen and the Saracen soldiers died in battle:
'And Charles, the emperor of valour and heroism, went on the morrow, with great fighting, into the city, and many of the Saracens fell by weapons, and many of them went with great peril across the river we have spoken of. And the number of them who fell in the city was twenty thousand.']