9691 Individuals in our Database | | | | KING OF THE FRANKS Robert Capet II THE PIOUS Sex: Male | | | |  | Birth Date | 0972 | Death Date | 1031 | Father | Hugues Capet Roi des francs Count of Paris | Born: 0940 Paris, Île-de-France, France | Died: 0996 OCT 24 | Mother | Adalaide d Aquitaine | Born: 0950 | Died: 1004 | | Robert Capet Notes: | Robert II (c. 972 – 20 July 1031), called the Pious (French: le Pieux) or the Wise (French: le Sage), was King of the Franks from 996 to 1031, the second from the Capetian dynasty. Crowned Junior King in 987, he assisted his father on military matters (notably during the two sieges of Laon, in 988 and 991). His solid education, provided by Gerbert of Aurillac (the future Pope Sylvester II) in Reims, allowed him to deal with religious questions of which he quickly became the guarantor (he headed the Council of Saint-Basle de Verzy in 991 and that of Chelles in 994). Continuing the political work of his father, after becoming sole ruler in 996, he managed to maintain the alliance with the Duchy of Normandy and the County of Anjou and thus was able to contain the ambitions of Count Odo II of Blois.
| Notes: | Robert II distinguished himself with an extraordinarily long reign for the time. His 35-year-long reign was marked by his attempts to expand the royal domain by any means, especially by his struggle to gain the Duchy of Burgundy (which ended in 1005 with his victory) after the death in 1002 without male descendants of his paternal uncle Duke Henry I, after a war against Otto-William of Ivrea, Henry Is stepson and adopted by him as his heir. His policies earned him many enemies, including three of his sons.
| Notes: | The marital setbacks of Robert II (he married three times, having two of these annulled and attempting to have the third annulled, prevented only by the Popes refusal to agree to a third annulment), strangely contrasted with the pious aura, bordering on holiness, which his biographer Helgaud of Fleury was willing to lend him in his work "Life of King Robert the Pious" (Epitoma vitæ regis Roberti pii). His life was then presented as a model to follow, made of innumerable pious donations to various religious establishments, of charity towards the poor and, above all, of gestures considered sacred, such as the healing of certain lepers. Robert II was the first sovereign considered to be a "miracle worker". The end of his reign revealed the relative weakness of the sovereign, who had to face the revolt of his third wife Constance and then of his own sons (Henri and Robert) between 1025 and 1031.
| |  | Birth Date | 0987 | Death Date | 1032 Place of Burial: Saint-Denis, ÃŽle-de-France, France | Father | Guillaume | Born: 0955 | Died: 0993 | Mother | Adelaide la Blanche d'Anjou | Born: 0946 | Died: 1026 | Constance f Arles queen consort of the Franks Notes: | | Individual Notes: | | More Notes: | | | | 1 | Children | Birth Death | Mother | Spouse | Grand Children | 1  | Henry I King of France | b.1009 d.1060 Place of Burial: Saint-Denis, ÃŽle-de-France, France | Constance f Arles | | 1 I Hugues Comte de Vermandois MAGNUS b.1057 | |
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Ancestors Chart Parents 2 | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024 persons | - | Count of Paris Hugues Capet Roi des francs b.0940 Paris, Île-de-France, France d.0996 See Notes | Count of Paris, Duke of the Franks Hugh of Paris MAGNUS b.0898 Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France d.0956 See Notes | King of France Robert I b.0866 Anjou, Isere, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France d.0923 | Margrave of Neustria Robert IV THE STRONG b.0815 Worms, Austrasia (Present Germany), Frankish Empire d.0866 | | | | | | | | | | | | Count of Paris Hugues Capet Roi des francs b.0940 Paris, Île-de-France, France d.0996 See Notes | | | | | | | | | | Adelais of France b.0819 Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France d.0882 See Notes | Count of Tours Hugh THE TIMID b.0775 Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France d.0837 See Notes | Luitfrid II De Sundgau b.0745 d.0802 | Duke of Alsace Luitfrid b.0700 d.0742 | Duke of Alsace Adalbert b.0665 d.0723 | Duke of Alsace Adalrich b.0645 d.0690 | Leudesius
d.0676 See Notes | MORE> | | | | | | | | | Adelais of France b.0819 Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France d.0882 See Notes | | | | | | | | | | Adelais of France b.0819 Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France d.0882 See Notes | | | | | | | | | | Adelais of France b.0819 Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France d.0882 See Notes | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | Countess of Lower Alsace Ava De tours b.0769 Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France d.0839 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Beatrix de Vermandos b.0880 d.0931 | Count of Vermandois Heribert I b.-848 Vermandois, Normandy, France d.-902 | Lord of Péronne Pepin II b.0817 Vermandois, Picardy, France d.0848 See Notes | King of Lombardy Bernard b.0797 Vermandois Neustria Frankish Empire d.0818 See Notes | King of Italy Pepin Carloman b.0777 Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland d.0810 See Notes | King of the Franks, King of the Lombards, Emperor of the Romans Charles Charlemagne I CHARLES THE GREAT Holy Roman Emperor b.0742 Likely in present day Belgium or Germany d.0814 See Notes | King of the Franks Pepin III THE SHORT b.0714 Jupille-sur-Meuse, Liège, Liege, Walloon Region, Belgium d.0768 See Notes | Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel THE HAMMER b.0686 Herstal, Liège, Walloon Region, Belgium d.0741 See Notes | MORE> | | | | | | | | | Queen of the Franks Bertrada Broadfoot of Laon BERTHA b.0720 d.0783 See Notes | count of Laon Charibert b.0696 d.0747 | MORE> | | | | | | | | Hildegard Of vinzgouw b.0754 Swabia (present Baden-Württemberg), Germany d.0783 | Count in Kraichgau and Anglachgau Gerold Of Vinzgau b.0725 Anglachgau (within present Baden-Württemberg), Schwaben, Frankish Empire (present Germany) d.0784 See Notes | Frankish Aristocrat b.0660 Mainz, rhineland-palatinate, germany
| MORE> | | | | | | | | | Duchess of Swabia Emma Of alemannia b.0726 Alamannia (present Baden-Württemberg), Frankish Empire (within present Germany) d.0783 | Duke of the Alemannians Hnabi Herzog der alemannen b.0710 d.0788 See Notes | MORE> | | | | | | | Duchess of Swabia Emma Of alemannia b.0726 Alamannia (present Baden-Württemberg), Frankish Empire (within present Germany) d.0783 | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Parents 2 | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024-persons | - | reine des Francs Adalaide d Aquitaine b.0950 d.1004 See Notes | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 persons | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 Persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024 persons | - | | | | |