House of Capet

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14 dated entries naming House of Capet, drawn from 13 separate years between 960 CE and 1322 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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10th century

  • 960Richard I (the Fearless), duke of Normandy, marries Emma of Paris. She is the daughter of Hugh the Great, former Duke of the Franks. The union gives him a permanent status to the House of Capet.source
  • 1000In the Kingdom of France, Robert II, the son of Hugh Capet, was the first King of the Capetian royal dynasty.source

11th century

  • 1060August 4 – King Henry I of France (of the House of Capet) dies after a 29-year reign in Vitry-aux-Loges. He is succeeded by his 8-year-old son Philip I ("the Amorous") as king of France. Philip is too young to rule, and his mother, Queen Anne of Kiev becomes regent. France is administered by Count Baldwin V (one of Philip's uncles) who acts as co-regent.source

12th century

  • 1200September – Philip I, French prince and nobleman (House of Capet) (died 1235)source

13th century

  • 1214September 18 – Treaty of Chinon: John of England makes a truce with Philip II at the Castle of Chinon, and recognizes the Capetian (French) territorial gains at the expense of the Angevin Empire.source
  • 1214September 18 – Treaty of Chinon: John of England and Philip II of France agree to a truce at the Castle of Chinon, in which John of England recognises the Capetian (French) territorial gains at the expense of the Angevin Empire formally ending the Anglo-French war of 1213–14.source
  • 1217August 24 – Battle of Sandwich: A Plantagenet English fleet commanded by Hubert de Burgh attacked and defeated a Capetian French fleet led by Eustace the Monk and Robert of Courtenay off Sandwich, Kent. The English captured the French flagship and most of the supply vessels, forcing the rest of the French fleet to return to Calais. When the news reached Louis, he entered into renewed peace negotiations.source
  • 1282Blanche of France, French princess (House of Capet) (died 1305)source
  • 1285October 5 – Philip III, king of France (House of Capet) (born 1245)source

14th century

  • 1303Marie of Évreux, French noblewoman (House of Capet) (died 1335)source
  • 1310Margaret I, French noblewoman (House of Capet) (died 1382)source
  • 1313Blanche of France, French princess (House of Capet) (died 1358)source
  • 1314November 29 – Philip IV the Fair, King of France from the House of Capet, in a hunting accident (born 1268)source
  • 1322January 3 – Charles IV the Fair, the last member of the House of Capet and younger brother of King Philip V, becomes the new King of France upon Philip's death at Longchamp Abbey, near Paris. After Charles assumes the throne, he refuses to release his wife Blanche of Burgundy, who is imprisoned for adultery with a Norman knight, from prison, and asks that the marriage be annulled.source

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