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- [S6040] FindAGrave Old World, Hugh "Le Grand" of France I 898-956.
Hugh Magnus, The Great Duke of France was born abt 898 in Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France. He was the son of Robert I (Count of Paris & Poitiers) King of France #1 (866-923) and Beatrix (Queen of France) de (Vermandois) (880-949). He was the progenitor of the Capetian kings of France. His family is known as the Robertians Noble family.
Hugh married first, in 922, Judith, daughter of Roger Comte du Maine & his wife Rothilde. She died childless in 925. Hugh's second wife was Eadhild, daughter of Edward the Elder, king of the Anglo-Saxons, and sister of King Æthelstan. They married in 926 and she died in 938, childless. Hugh's third wife was Hedwig of Saxony, daughter of Henry the Fowler and Matilda of Ringelheim.
Hugh and Hedwig were the parents of the following known children: Beatrice married Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine. Hugh Capet who became King of France in 987. Emma.(c. 943-aft. 968). Otto, Duke of Burgundy and Odo-Henry I, Duke of Burgundy.
Hugh the Great was the Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris. His family is known as the Robertians Noble family (The Robertians, or Robertines, was the Frankish predecessor family of origin to the ruling houses of France). At the death of his father, King Robert I, in battle at Soissons in 923, Hugh refused the crown and it went to his brother-in-law, Rudolph of France.
Hugh was the progenitor of the Capetian kings of France. He was the son of a king (Robert I), father of another (Hugh Capet) and brother-in-law of three more (Rudolf of France, Athelstan of England, and Otto of Germany), Hugh possessed such vast territories that he could easily have assumed the crown on the death of Rudolf in 936.
Hugh died on 16 June 956 in Isle, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131665555/hugh_i-of_france
- [S960] Wikipedia: Hugh Magnus, Hugh Magnus.
Hugh the Great (c. 898 – 16 June 956) was the Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris.
He was the son of King Robert I of France and Béatrice of Vermandois, daughter of Herbert I, Count of Vermandois. He was born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. His eldest son was Hugh Capet who became King of France in 987. His family is known as the Robertians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_the_Great
- [S953] Wikipedia: Robert I of France, Robert Capet I.
Robert I of France (866 – June 15, 923) was the elected King of West Francia from 922 to 923. Before his election to the throne he was Count of Poitiers, Count of Paris and Marquis of Neustria and Orléans. He succeeded the overthrown Carolingian king Charles the Simple, who in 898 had succeeded Robert's brother, king Odo.
Robert was born in 866 as the posthumous son of Robert the Strong, count of Anjou, and the brother of Odo, who was elected king of West Francia in 888.[1] In time West Francia evolved into the Kingdom of France;[2] and under Odo, the royal capital was fixed in Paris. Robert and Odo came from the Robertian dynasty out of which the Capetian dynasty grew.[3]
In 885 Robert participated in the defence of Paris during the Viking siege of Paris.[4] He was appointed by Odo as the ruler of several counties, including the county of Paris, and abbot in commendam of many abbeys. Robert also secured the office of Dux Francorum, a military dignity of high importance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_I_of_France
- [S954] Wikipedia: Beatrice of Vermandois, Bwatrice Adelaide de Vermandois.
Béatrice of Vermandois (c. 880 – after 26 March 931), a Carolingian aristocrat, queen of Western Francia by marriage to Robert I, King of France, and mother of Hugh the Great.
Beatrice, born c. 880 was the daughter of Herbert I, Count of Vermandois.[1] She was also the sister of Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, and was a descendant in the male line of Charlemagne through King Bernard of Italy.[a][3] Through her marriage to Robert I, she was an ancestress of the Capetian dynasty. On 15 June 923 her husband Robert was killed at the Battle of Soissons shortly after which their son Hugh was offered the crown but refused.[4] Beatrice died after March 931.
She married c. 890, becoming the second wife of Robert, Margrave of Neustria, who became the King of France in 922
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béatrice_of_Vermandois
- [S959] Wikipedia: Hedwig of Saxony, Hedwig von Sachen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_of_Saxony
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898 - 956 (57 years)
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