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1  NAME /Robert II, "The Pious" of France/
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1  NAME /Robert II, King of France/
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1  BIRT
2  DATE 27 MAR 970
2  PLAC Orleans, France
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1  DEAT
2  DATE 20 JUL 1031
2  PLAC Meulan, Isle de France, France
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[from Ancestry.com 81120.GED, references "France in the Making, 843-1180, by Jean Dunbabin, p136]

In 988, Hugh Capet sought a Byzantine bride for Robert. Had the emporer been accommodating, Hugh's initiative would have been liberally rewarded. As it was, Robert had to content himself with the daughter of an Italian king, a marriage which, though satisfactory from the point of blood and dowry, failed miserably in human terms. Robert's second attempt, the alliance with Berthe of Burgundy, came up against the insuperable obstacle of ecclesiastical opposition, led by the very section of the reforming church on whose good offices he relied so heavily. The third marriage, with Constance of Arles, was a stormy one; yet the lady, though personally unpopular, was clearly valued as a worthy prize for a king.

[from Ancestry.com 139798.GED]

Robert reigned 996-1031. He was a royal composer, chorister and poet, who might have ruled Italy but preferred that his palace whould be his cloister, where he lived in the enjoyment of melody and song. He conducted the matins and vespers in his royal robes. He was very devout.