Figure
Hugh Capet of France
King of the Franks
- Child of Hugh the Great and Hedwig of Saxony
- Married to Adelaide of Aquitaine
- Dated 940 CE – 24 October 996 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
One office on record
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
- 3 June 987 CE – 24 October 996 CE king of Franks Succeeded Louis V of France · Succeeded by Robert II of France
Family
The family of Hugh Capet of France
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 13
Family 13
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Hedwig of Saxony mother of Hugh Capet - child of (father) Hugh the Great Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris (c. 898–956)
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of the house Capetian dynasty descendants of King Hugh Capet of France in the male line - parent of (child) Aurelia of Regensburg Roman Catholic Austrian saint
- parent of (child) Gisèle de France 10th-century Countess of Ponthieu
- parent of (child) Hedwig of France, Countess of Mons Countess of Mons, Hugh Capet's daughter
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parent of (father) Robert II of France king of the Franks from 996 to 1031 - sibling of Beatrice of France (938-1003)
- sibling of Emma of Paris Duchess consort of Normandy (c. 943–968)
- sibling of Henry I, Duke of Burgundy Duke of Burgundy from 965 to 1002
- sibling of Heribert I d'Auxerre bishop of Auxerre
- sibling of Otto, Duke of Burgundy Duke of Burgundy
- married to Adelaide of Aquitaine French noble woman and queens consort
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
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17 statements on this record
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- 14 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
- 1 Hedged in the source The source said circa, allegedly or presumably. This does not turn that into a date.
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