Robert I King West Francia 866-923

Paternal Family Tree: Capet

Robert I King West Francia and Aelis Unknown Queen Consort West Francia were married.

Around 866 Robert I King West Francia was born to Robert "Strong" [aged 36].

On 2nd July 866 Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine [aged 46] and [his father] Robert "Strong" [aged 36] were killed fighting the joint Breton-Viking army at the Battle of Brissarthe at Brissarthe.

In 888 [his brother] Odo I King West Franks [aged 31] was elected King of the Franks.

Around 890 Robert I King West Francia [aged 24] and Beatrice Vermandois [aged 10] were married. She the daughter of Herbert Vermandois I Count Vermandois [aged 41].

In 894 [his daughter] Emma Capet was born to Robert I King West Francia [aged 28] and Aelis Unknown Queen Consort West Francia. She married Rudolph aka Raoul I King West Francia, son of Richard "Black" Bivinids Duke Burgundy and Adelaide Welf.

In 898 [his son] Hugh "Great" Capet Count Paris was born to Robert I King West Francia [aged 32] and [his wife] Beatrice Vermandois [aged 18]. He married 1. 922 his third cousin twice removed Judith Maine, daughter of Roger Maine I Count Maine and Rotrude Carolingian Abbess Saint Radegunde 2. 926 Eadhild Wessex 3. 937 Hedwig Saxon Ottonian, daughter of Henry "Fowler" I King East Francia and Matilda Ringelheim Queen Consort East Francia, and had issue.

On 1st January 898 [his brother] Odo I King West Franks [aged 41] died. Charles "Simple" III King West Francia [aged 18] succeeded III King West Francia.

In 922 Hugh "Great" Capet Count Paris [aged 24] and Judith Maine were married. She the daughter of Roger Maine I Count Maine and Rotrude Carolingian Abbess Saint Radegunde. He the son of Robert I King West Francia [aged 56] and Beatrice Vermandois [aged 42]. They were third cousin twice removed.

In 922 Robert I King West Francia [aged 56] was appointed I King West Francia.

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History of the Dukes of Normandy by William of Jumieges. Charles the Simple [aged 42], the son of Louis named "Do Nothing," was Rollo's father-in-law. At one time he sent two knights to his daughter Gisela. She kept them with her secretly for a long while, not wishing to reveal them to Rollo. When he learned this, he was angry and considered them spies, and ordered them to be brought out, and when they were brought out, they had their throats cut in the marketplace. When Robert [aged 56], duke of the Franks and Rollo's godfather, heard that the bonds of peace made between the king and the Robert [Rollo] [aged 76], duke of the Northmen, had been destroyed and broken because of the killing of the two knights, he rose against him, and invading the kingdom of the Franks, he was anointed king on the third day before the Kalends of July [29th June 922].

Carolus Simplex, filius Ludovici cognomento Nihil-fecit erat socer Rollonis; quodam tempore misit duos milites Gislæ filiæ suæ. Quos illa apud se occulte diu morari fecit, nolens eos manifestare Rolloni. Quod cum ille cognovisset, iratus et reputans eos exploratores, jussit illos educi, et eductos in foro rerum venalium jugulari. Audiens autem Robertus dux Francorum, patrinus Rollonis, quod pro nece duorum militum, colligatæ pacis inter regem et Robertum ducem Northmannorum vincula soluta diruptaque essent, contra eum rebellavit, et regnum Franciæ invadens, in regem III Kalendas Julii unctus est.

Robert I King West Francia 866-923

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Royal Descendants of Robert I King West Francia 866-923
Number after indicates the number of unique routes of descent. Descendants of Kings and Queens not included.