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OCCU King of France 996-1031..
SOUR COMYN4.TAF (Compuserve), p. 4 says ABT 940; HAWKINS.GED says ABT 939;
PORTU2.TAF (Compuserve) says 940;BAIL3.GED (Compuserve) says 941;
FRANCE.SOV says 946;Royalty for Commoners, p. 99 says late 941
SOUR COMYN4.TAF (Compuserve Roots); GWALTNEY.ANC (Compuserve)  127011248;
Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 99;
gendex.com/users/daver/rigney/D0001 says 24 Aug 996
SOUR Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 99;
gendex.com/users/daver/rigney/D0001;
King of France (987-996), first of the Capetians.  He inherited (956) a vast domain in France from his father, Hugh the Great, and in 987 was elected king.  He spent much of his reign fighting with Charles I of Lower Lorraine, the ignored Carolingian claimant. -
Encyclopedia, p. 392; Hugh (Robertin) Capet -
COMYNI.GED (Compuserve);Hugh the Abbot R Capet - COMYNJ.TAF (Compuserve),p. 5
HUGH CAPET, son of HUGH THE GREAT and HEDWIG DE SAXONIE, was King of France 987-996; Count of Paris, Poitou and Orleans; First Capetan king - Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 99
http://members.aol.com/sargen2/g0000008.htm#I2378 says parents are Hugh the Great and Eadhild - NPH

Died of smallpox.
He was called "Capet" because of the abbeys whose "cappa" (or cape) he wore.

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GIVN Hugh "Capet" King of
SURN France
AFN 9G85-M2
EVEN King of France
TYPE Ruled
DATE BET 987 AND 996
PLAC Verberie sur Oise,France
EVEN 58
TYPE Age
DATE 996
PLAC At Death
DATE 27 AUG 2000
TIME 22:24:29

Hugh Capet, lineal descendant of Charlemagne, and son of Hugh theGreat, was elected to succeed King Louis le Faineant in 987, known asLouis the Do-Nothing.  It was stated that the reign of Hugh Capet was not particularly remarkeable, but his line ruled a long time. Hisname derived from the cape-like cloak he wore - a capet.  Hugh Capetwas succeeded in 996 by his son Robert II the Pious.
ABBR Trager's Chronology
ABBR SOURCE #319
TITL "Through the Ages"  by Alf Henrikson.  Crescent book, New York
An Illustrated Chronicle of Events from 2000 BC to the Present.(1905)
AUTH Henrikson, Alf
PUBL Crescent Books, New York
TEXT Henrickson's states Boris II was Russian, when actually he wasBulgarian, great grandson of Romanus I Lecapenus.
PAGE 981-990.
ABBR SOURCE #337
TITL Kingdom's of Europe, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ruling Monarchs FromAncient Times to the Present
AUTH Gene Gurney
PUBL Crown Publishers, New York.  1982
PAGE Gurney page 125.
EVEN Duke of Franks
TYPE Title Created
EVEN 341
TYPE Rec.No.
EVEN 58
TYPE Age
DATE 996
PLAC at death
EVEN Hugh Magnus (Hugh the Great)
TYPE Son of

EVEN
TYPE Acceded
DATE 987King of France 987-996.

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Hugh Capet dies at Paris October 14, 996 at age 58 and is succeeded by his son, 26, who will reign until 1031 as Robert II.
[Note difference in reported death.]
Source:
The People's Chronology is licensed from Henry Holt and Company, Inc. Copyright  1994 by James Trager. All rights reserved.
Capet (kpt, kppt, k-p)
A dynasty of French kings (987-1328), including Hugh Capet (940?-996), who was elected king in 987, thereby permanently removing the Carolingians from power, and ruled until his death. The expansion of territory and centralization of power under the Capets began the movement toward a unified France.
Source:  The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition copyright  1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from InfoSoft International, Inc. All rights reserved.
The Early Capetians, 987 to 1180
When Louis V died, the magnates turned to Hugh Capet, duke of France and descendant of Robert the Bold and of Odo. Hugh was elected king not because he was strong but precisely because he would not be strong enough to control the other magnates; in fact, he secured election only by giving much of his land to the electors.  The French nobles may have had no intention of installing the Capetians
as a dynasty, but Hugh moved quickly to have his son Robert crowned. When Robert became king (as Robert II) in 996, he named his son Hugh as his successor, but due to Hugh's death, another son, Henry, became king in 1031. The Capetians eventually passed the crown through a direct male line for more than three centuries, from 987 through 1328.
The earliest Capetians remained subservient to the feudal princes, but the rebuilding of a royal administration, indicated by a new importance of royal provosts, was evident by the 1040s.
Nevertheless, in the late 11th century, William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, and Hugh the Great, abbot of the monastery of Cluny, although nominally vassals of the king, were far more powerful than the Capetian king Philip I (reigned 1060-1108).
Philip's successor, Louis VI (reigned 1108-1137), consolidated royal power once and for all in the le-de-France, a region centering on Paris that covers about 160 km (about 100 mi) from north to south and 80 km (50 mi) from east to west. Here he systematically suppressed all feudal opposition to the royal government. He had his son, the future Louis VII, brought up at the abbey of Saint Denis, north of Paris, and in 1137 arranged for him to marry Eleanor, heiress to the duchy of Aquitaine.
Eleanor's possessions were far larger than the le-de-France, and by making her his wife, Louis VII won control of extensive territories between the Loire River and the Pyrenees. In 1147 Louis went on a Crusade to the Holy Land, taking Eleanor along with him. While they were in the East it was rumored that she had committed adultery. Since the marriage had never been agreeable to Eleanor, and
had not produced a male heir, both spouses wanted the papal annulment of the marriage, granted in 1152.
Two months later Eleanor married Henry, count of Anjou and duke of Normandy, who in 1154 became king of England as Henry II. Thus, Aquitaine passed from the French crown to the English crown, and the lands controlled by Henry in France (the Angevin Empire) vastly exceeded in size those of his feudal lord, Louis VII.
Source: "France," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.[Spare.FTW]