Hugh Magnus

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Count of Paris, Orleans and Vexin
• Fact: Duke of France

Notes:

Excerpt from "Families Directly Descended from all the Royal Families in Europe": Hugh The Great, son of Robert I, became Duke of France, and the Franks of Burgundy, and Count of Paris, his domain extending from the Loire to the frontiers of Picardy; was on of the founders of the Capetian house and its power in France.

Hugh married Hedwig Of SAXONY in 938 in Mainz oder Ingelheim. Hedwig (daughter of Duke Of Saxony Henry I "the Fowler" and Mathilda Of RINGLEHEIM) was born about 921; died on 10 May 965. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Hugh Capet was born in 941 in France; died on 24 Oct 996 in Les Juifs, near Chartres; was buried in St. Denis.
2. Beatrice Of FRANCE was born between 939 and 940; died after 987.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Count of Paris and Poitiers
• Fact: Anti-king of France
• Fact: Marquis of Neustria and Orleans

Notes:

Excerpt from "Families Directly Descended from all the Royal Families in Europe": Robert, second Count or Duke of Anjou and Blois, also King Robert I of France or more accuratly, King of the Franks, was the younger son of Robert the Strong, Count of Anjou, and the brother of Odo (or Eudes), who became King of the Western Franks in 988. He was himself crowned King of the Franks at Reims, June 20, 922, but Charles III marched against him, and he was killed in a battle near Soissons, June 15, 923.

Robert married Beatrix DE VERMANDOIS about 890. Beatrix (daughter of Herbert I and Beatrice Of MORVOIS) died after Mar 931. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]