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"Capet" HUGUES, King of France (b. Abt. 941, d. October 24, 996)
Notes for "Capet" HUGUES, King of France:HUGUES CAPET
HUGUES Ier CAPET (940 env.-996) duke of France (956-987) king de France (987-996)
Resulting from the family from Robertiens which has dominated Francie (area between Meuse and the Loire) for one century, and which already gave two kings (Eudes -- 888-898, and Robert -- 922-923), Hugues Capet is, the day before its election to the royalty, the prince provided best with the kingdom: duke of France, duke of Burgundy, he is a suzerain of the duke of Normandy (he has by there rights on Brittany) and suzerain (theoretical) of the duke of Aquitaine, while the king of Burgundy east his brother. He thus has of fields, vassal and brilliant a parentèle. The re-establishment of the sovereign carolingien in the person of Louis d' Outremer (936) could be made only thanks to Hugues the Large one, father of Hugues Capet. Since this date, the duke of France passes alternatively from the support for the confrontation with the king. In 985, the écolâtre of Rheims, Gerbert, the spirit more the brilliance of its time and remarkable political, can write: "the king in fact, it is Hugues." Around the archbishop of Rheims, Adalbéron, and of Gerbert, are taken again the ideas of single empire, parking peace: from where the admiration of the two men for the empire néo-carolingien of Ottons. Moreover, the solidity of the archbishop's palace of Rheims, its situation left in the Germanic Empire, part in the kingdom of France, was to lead its head to play a decisive role in the advent of Hugues Capet. The last king carolingien, Louis V, as his Lothaire father had already done it, shows Adalbéron of treason to the profit of the emperor and convenes a plaid to judge it in Compiegne on May 18 987. However the king dies of an accident of hunting: the situation is turned over in favour of Adalbéron which makes elect Hugues with Noyon, then the sacring to Soissons on June 1 (or in Rheims on June 3). The descendants of the new sovereign were going to reign eight centuries. This unexpected election starts the reaction of the applicant carolingien, Charles of Low-Lorraine, uncle of the late king, who seizes Laon in May 988. It finds the support of Arnoul, bastard of king Lothaire, who becomes archbishop of Rheims to dead of Adalbéron (989) and gives the city to Charles. Both Carolingiens are thus firmly established in the heart of Francie, and only the treason of the bishop of Laon, Ascelin, delivers this city, like Charles of Lorraine and his children, in Hugues (March 991). Then remain to regulate the fate of Rheims and its bishop: Hugues defies papacy which it considers too related to the Germanic emperor; he joins together a national council with the Saint-Basle monastery of Verzy, which degrades Arnoul and Gerbert (June 991) substitutes to him, to the great anger of the pope Jean XV. This reign marks a certain awakening by the royalty of its distinct personality compared to the Empire, but the sovereign remains very weak. A study of the acts resulting from the royal chancellery shows that none is intended for the areas south kingdom, and of many acts are not subscribed any more by the king and the chancellor alone, but are it also by large characters whose authority comes to consolidate that of the sovereign. However, dynastic continuity could be assured: Hugues Capet immediately joined his son Robert the Piles, creating by there a heredity in fact.
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Ancestral File Number: 9G85-M2.
Burial: Unknown, Abbaye de St Denis, Isle de France, France.
Record Change: June 06, 2002
More About "Capet" HUGUES, King of France and Princess of Aquitaine ADBBLABDE:
Marriage: 968
Children of "Capet" HUGUES, King of France and Princess of Aquitaine ADBBLABDE are:
- +ROBERTII, "The Pious", King of France \, b. March 27, 972, ,Orlbbans, France, d. July 20, 1031, ,Melun, France.