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Hugh Capet

King of the Franks

13 dated entries naming Hugh Capet, drawn from 12 separate years between 898 CE and 1027 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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9th century

  • 898Hugh the Great, Father of Hugh Capet and progenitor of the Capetian Kings (approximate date) (d. 956)source

10th century

  • 941Hugh Capet, first of the Capetian Kings of France (d. 996)source
  • 956June 16 – Hugh the Great, count of Paris, dies at Dourdan. He is succeeded by his eldest son Hugh Capet, who is recognized as Duke of the Franks by his cousin Lothair III, king of the West Frankish Kingdom.source
  • 968Gisela of France, Countess of Ponthieu, French princess and daughter of Hugh Capet (d. 1002)source
  • 977August – Otto II appoints his cousin Charles, illegitimate son of the late King Louis IV (d'Outremer), as duke of Lorraine. King Lothair III – who claims the duchy as his own territory – declares war to the Holy Roman Empire. He leads an expedition into Lorraine accompanied by Hugh Capet. Lothair crosses the Meuse River and takes Aachen, sacking the imperial palace.source
  • 987July 3 – After the last Carolingian king of West Francia, Louis V, had died in May, Hugh Capet is crowned king at Noyon.source
  • 988April 1 – 16-year old Robert II of France ("Robert the Pious") is married to the much older Rozala (the widow of Arnulf II). The marriage is arranged by Robert's father, King Hugh Capet, to secure the loyalty of the County of Flanders.source
  • 989Summer – Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine, captures the city of Reims by treachery of its new archbishop, Arnulf (the illegitimate son of the late King Lothair III). King Hugh I (Capet) demands that Pope John XV discipline Arnulf. But John XV, not wishing to defy Empress Theophanu, refuses.source
  • 991March 29: Bishop Adalberon imprisons the treasonous Duke Charles of Lorraine and his nephew Arnulf, the Archbishop of Reims. Adalberon delivers the two men to King Hugh Capet, who imprisons them and their family in Orléans. The cities of Reims and Laon are returned to Capet.source
  • 996October 24 – Hugh I Capet, king of France (b. 941)source
  • 996October 24 – King Hugh I Capet dies in Paris after a 9-year reign and is interred in the Basilica of St. Denis. He is succeeded by his 24-year-old son Robert II (the Pious) as king of France. Robert tries (during his reign) to increase his power, by pressing his claim of feudal lands that become vacant. This results in many territorial disputes.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

  • 1027Aurelia of Regensburg, daughter of Hugh Capet and saintsource

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