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    Hugh Capet (/ˈkæpeɪ/; French: Hugues Capet [yɡ kapɛ]; c. 940 – 24 October 996) was the King of the Franks from 987 to 996. He is the founder of and first...
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    children. With her death in 1382, the House of Capet finally came to an end. 987–996, Hugh Capet (Hugues Capet), Count of Paris, crowned King of the Franks...
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  • rugby union player Hugues Broussard (1934–2019), French Olympic swimmer Hugues Capet (c.939–996), first King of the Franks Hugues Cosnier (????-1629)...
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    Hugh Capet was crowned at Reims on Christmas Day 988, by Archbishop Adalberon. In 990 the city was attacked by Charles of Lorraine, the rival of Hugues Capet...
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    2009, p. 87. Toussaint-Duplessis: Annales de Paris. Jusqu'au règne de Hugues Capet, 1753, p. 201. Orderic Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic...
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    l'Europe, Paris, Hachette, coll. «Pluriel», 1983 (reimpr. 1997), 490 p. Yves Sassier: Hugues Capet: naissance d'une dynastie, Paris, Fayard, 1995, 357 p....
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  • both Henry and Medici, through Louis IX and the House of Capet, descended from Hugues Capet, the King of the Franks. During their marriage, the royal...
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    become the bois de Vincennes was considered to be non-arable land. When Hugues Capet, King of the Franks, took up residence on the Île de la Cite, he used...
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    propagandistic) fervor to some chansons de geste (such as La Chanson de Hugues Capet). The poems contain an assortment of character types; the repertoire...
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    mil. Colloque International du D. N. R. S./Generalitat de Catalunya « Hugues Capet 987-1987 : la France de l'an mil », Barcelona 2-5 juliol 1987. Edited...
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    originated there in French. The "Hugues hypothesis" argues that the name was derived by association with Hugues Capet, king of France, who reigned long...
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    Capetian dynasty, whose members ruled France from the accession of Hugh Capet in 987 until 1328. The Robertians' rise to prominence began with Emma’s...
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    Gabrielle M. Spiegel [page needed] Mediaeval France from the Reign of Hugues Capet to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century [dead link] Jeffrey H. Denton...
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    Charlemagne aux environs de l'an mil, Paris, Seuil, 1990. Yves Sassier: Hugues Capet: Naissance d'une dynastie, Fayard, coll. "Biographies historiques", 14...
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  • Βασίλειος Βουλγαροκτόνος, Basíleios Boulgaroktónos) "~ Capet": Hugh Capet (French: Hugues Capet) "~ the Cabbage": Ivaylo of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Ивайло...
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    Maintenon Hasting, viking chief who was Count of Chartres (882 - 892) Hugues Capet (c. 939 – 996), King of the Franks, deceased near Voves Fulbert de Chartres...
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    Robert II of France (category House of Capet)
    (in French). Les Belles Lettres. OL 15221463M. Sassier, Yves (1987). Hugues Capet (in French). Paris: Fayard. ISBN 978-2-213-01919-2. —— (2000). "Royauté...
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    its chief, Hugh Capet (Hugues Capet) elected to the French throne. This time, the Carolingian dynasty effectively ended. Hugh Capet was the founder the...
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    Clovis I became king of the Franks, which was a federative monarchy. Hugues Capet was elected king and founded the Capetian dynasty. The kingdom of the...
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    politician. Gerbert of Aurillac (938-1003), Mathematician, tutor to Hugues Capet, Pope under the name Sylvester II. William of Auvergne (1190-1249), Theologian...
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  • ). Presses universitaire de Rouen. pp. 49–61. Sassier, Yves (1987). Hugues Capet : naissance d'une dynastie. Paris: Fayard. p. 114. ISBN 2-213-01919-3...
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  • Rogers Holland 16 1888 Gustave Masson Mediaeval France: From the Reign of Hugues Capet to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century 17 1888 S. G. W. Benjamin Persia...
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    younger sister, Hedwig of Saxony in 937. They were the parents of Hugh Capet. Hedwig's sister, Gerberga of Saxony, was the wife of Louis IV of France...
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    historical problems that, in their view, hamper France's potential. Since Hugues Capet, they list and analyse various recurring facts and phenomena which, in...
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  • Hugh is the English-language variant of the masculine given name Hugues, itself the Old French variant of Hugo, a short form of Continental Germanic given...
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  • usually called the Synod of St-Basle, was convoked at Reims by King Hugues Capet, assisted by Gerbert of Aurillac, later Pope Sylvester II, to consider...
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  • Hugh of France (son of Robert II) (category House of Capet)
    member of the House of Capet, a son of Robert II by his third wife, Constance of Arles. The first Capetian King of France, Hugh Capet, had ensured his family's...
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    the tower of the Horloge in 1370. The current clock is modern. In 987 Hugues Capet became the first King of France, and established his capital in Paris...
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    bishop of Auxerre, and natural son of Hugh the Great and brother of Hugues Capet. The first known lord of the castle was Ithier, lord of Toucy in c. 1060...
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    175] Les monnaies et le régime monétaire de la monarchie féodale, de Hugues Capet à Philippe le Bel (687-sic-1285), Orléans, Impr. A. Colas, 1876, 80 p...
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