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01. Robert II of Hesbaye,
[1]
(aka Rodbert
or Chrodobert) was a Frank who was count of Worms and of Rheingau, and duke
of Hesbaye around the year 800. He is the earliest known male-line ancestor
of the French royal family (including the Capetians, the Valois and the
Bourbons, all of them his male-line descendants), and the Spanish royal
family.
02. Robert III of Worms,
[1]
son of Robert
was born abt. 800. By his wife Waldrada of
Worms he had his only recorded son Robert the Strong. His niece
was Ermengard, wife of the Frankish emperor Louis the Pious. His cousin
Chrodogang was Archbishop of Metz and abbot of the Lorsch Abbey. An uncle of
Robert was Count Cancor, founder of the Lorsch Abbey. Via Robert the Strong
he was grandfather of two kings of Western Francia named Odo and Robert. He
was the great-great-grandfather of Hugo Capet, the founder of the Capetian
dynasty that ruled France until the French Revolution. He died in 834.
03. Robert IV The Strong,
[1]
son of
Robert III and Waldrana was born abt. 820 in France. The wife of
Robert cannot be definitively determined. He died in 866 at the Battle of
Brissarthe against the Vikings.
04. King Robert I, of Western Francian,
[1]
son of Robert IV was born in 866. He married
Beatrice De Vermandois. Robert ruled from June
29, 922 until his death on June 15, 923 in Soissons, France.
05. Hugh Magnus "The Great", Duke of the
Franks and Count of Paris,
[1]
son of Robert and Beatrice was born abt. 900.
He married Princess Hedwidge
before September 14, 938 in Germany. He died on June 16, 956 in
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06. King Hugh Capet,
[1]
son of Hugh
and Hedwidge was born abt.
941 he succeeded his father in 956. His lordship over many fiefs around
Paris and Orléans made him the virtual ruler of France, and when King Louis
V of France, the last of the Carolingian line, died without an heir in 987,
Hugh's numerous vassals enabled him to win the election to the throne,
defeating the Carolingian candidate, Charles, duke of Lorraine. Charles and
many other great nobles of the realm attempted to resist his authority but,
through force of arms and by judicious purchasing of allegiance, as well as
through the support of the church, of which he was a devout member, Hugh
established a measure of order within his kingdom. He had his son, Robert
the Pious (later Robert II), elected and crowned his associate and successor
in 988, thereby confirming the house of Capet, which ruled France until
1328. He married Princess Adelaide of
Aquitaine in 968. Hed died on October 24, 996 in
Paris.
07a. King Robert II "The Pious",
[1]
son of Hugh and Adelaide was born on
March 27, 972. He was born in Orléans, and educated at Reims under the
French scholar Gerbert, who later became Pope Sylvester II. In 996 Robert
married, as his second wife, his cousin Bertha of Burgundy. Two years later
Pope Gregory V excommunicated him and annulled this marriage, which was
considered incestuous by the church; in 1003 Robert submitted to the pope
and married the daughter of the marquis of Provence,
Constance of Arles, by whom he had four sons. He
recognized Hugh, the eldest of these sons, as his successor. After Hugh's
death in 1025, the other sons, aided by their mother, revolted; Robert was
still fighting them at the time of his own death on July 20, 1031. Robert
was called The Pious because of his humility and charity; he was also
esteemed as a soldier and ruler.
08a.
King Henry I,
[1]
son of Robert and Constance was born on May 4, 1008.
From the beginning of his reign he was occupied with putting down rebellions
led by members of his family and other French nobles. Between 1035 and 1047
he assisted his nephew William, duke of Normandy, later William the
Conqueror, king of England, in establishing William's authority over
rebellious Norman nobles. Henry later grew jealous of William's power and
waged unsuccessful war against him in 1054 and 1058. Henry was succeeded by
his son Philip I. He married Anna Agnesa
of Yaroslavna on January 29, 1049. He died on August
4, 1060 in Vitry, Brie, France.
08b. Adele, Princess of France,
[1]
daughter of Robert and Constance was born in 1009. She married
Baudouin V, Count of Flanders
in 1028. She died on January 8, 1079. I descend from their
daughter Queen Matilda Flanders (1031-1083) who married
William "The Conquerer", King of England.
09a. King Philip I "The Amorous",
[1]
son of Henry and Anna was born on
May 23, 1052. He came to the throne at age 8; he had been crowned at Reims
05-23-1059; his minority ended in the stormy year of 1066 - "In the long
reign that followed he showed no great ability or energy, and a looseness of
morals which embroiled him with the Church. His reign is chiefly remarkable
for the steady growth of the royal domain. He married
Bertha, Queen of France in 1071. He died on
July 29, 1108 in Melun, France.
09b. Hugh Crepi "The Great",
Count of France,
[1]
son of Henry and Anna was born in 1057 in Vermandois,
France. He married Adelaide De
Vermandois abt. 1064. He died on October 18, 1102.
I descend from their daughter
Elizabeth De Vermandois (c1081-1130) who married
Robert De Beaumont (c1046-1118).
10. King Louis VI "The Fat",
[1]
son of Philip and Bertha was born in
1077. He was a great fighter, a great hunter, and a great eater. At 46
he became too fat to mount a horse, but he remained the embodiment of
warlike energy. His great task was to reduce to order the petty nobles of
the royal domain, who could truly be called robber barons. When Louis
came to the throne, every lord of a castle robbed at will and it was not
safe for even the king to pass along the road. Twenty years of hard fighting
were necessary to remedy this condition, but in the end, law and order
prevailed. So that such evils might not recur, every castle that was
captured was destroyed or given to faithful followers. He married
Adelaide of Savoy abt. 1115.
He died on August 1, 1137. 11. King Louis
VII "The Younger",
[1]
son of Louis and Adelaide was born in
1119. He was King of the Franks from 1137 until his death. His rule
was dominated by feudal struggles, particularly with the Angevin family, and
marked the beginning of the long rivalry between France and England.
Construction on the Notre-Dame de Paris, the founding of the University of
Paris, and the disastrous Second Crusade also occurred during his reign. He
married 3 times (1) Eleanor of Aquitaine (2) Constance of Castile and (3)
Alix of Champagne on November
13, 1160. He died on September 19, 1180 in Paris. 12a. King Philip II Augustus "The God-Given",
[1]
son of Louis and Adele
was born on August 22, 1165. He was crowned on November 1, 1179.
He led the Crusade with Richard of England but took ill at the seige of
Acre. He returned to Paris in 1191 where he betrayed Richard, went on
to conquer Normandy. He prepared to invade England but later came to
terms with King John. He married Isabella of
Hainault on April 28, 1180. He died on July 14, 1223.
12b. Alice, Princess of France,
[1]
daughter of Louis and Adele was born abt. 1170. She married William
Ponthieu IV on August 20, 1195. She died in 1221. I descend from
their daughter Marie of Ponthieu (1199-1251) who married Simon De Dammartin
(c1180-1239). Their daughter Joanna De Dammartin (c1218-1279) was the
mother of Princess Eleanor of Castile
(1240-1290) who married King Edward I of
England. 13. King Louis VIII "The Lion",
[1]
son of Philip and Isabella was born on
September 3, 1187. His reign from 1223-1226 consisted of fighting
against the Plantagenet power and conquering the heretical southern areas of
France. He married, Blanca
Alphonsa, Princess of Castile on May 23, 1200. Hed died
on November 8, 1226. I descend from their son
Robert I 14. Robert I, Count of
Artois, son of Louis and Blanca was born on Sep 25, 1216 and died on Feb
8, 1250. He married Matilda of Brabant, daughter of
Henry II of Brabant and Marie of Hohenstaufen.
15. Blanche of Artois,
daughter of Robert I and Matilda, was born abt. 1240 and died on May 2,
1302. She was Queen of Navarre and Countess of Champagne and Brie
during her marriage to Henry I of Navarre. After his death she became
regent in the name of their infant daughter, Joan I. Her second
husband was
Edmund Plantagenet, son of
King Henry
III of England. I descend from their son
Henry Plantagenet
who married Maud De Chaworth. |