General Notes

Name Suffix:<NSFX> [Count of Paris]
Name Prefix:<NPFX> King
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 9G81-8L
EVEN
TYPE Title (Facts Pg)
PLAC Roi de FranceYounger son of Robert the Strong of Neustria, andbriefly king of France (922-923), or West Francia. His decisive victoryover the Northmen at Chartres (911) led to a treaty
settling one group of these fierce
warriors in Normandy.
Robert faithfully served his older brother, King Eudes, during Eudes'sreign (888-898). Though on Eudes's death he became one of the mostpowerful Frankish lords, inheriting all the family lands
between the Seine and the Loire rivers, he swore fealty with othermagnates to the new king, the Carolingian Charles III the Simple.Nevertheless, he was already served in his domains by viscounts,
officials usually regarded as instruments of regal power. From 911onward, his role became more
decisive: his defeat of the Northmen at Chartres paved the way for theTreaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, by which Charles assigned them territoryin Normandy.
Robert's military success greatly enhanced his prestige, and dissensionbetween him and the King became undisguised. When Charles III imprudentlyoffered preferment exclusively to lords from
Lorraine, the Neustrian lords, led by Robert, broke into open revolt.They elected Robert king at
Reims in June 922. In a battle near Soissons a year later, Charles's armywas routed, but Robert was killed. His grandson was Hugh Capet, founderof the Capetian dynasty.
Source: www.eb.com

DATE 27 APR 2000

GIVN Robert I, King of
SURN France
NSFX [Count of Paris]
AFN 9G81-BX
EVEN France
TYPE Ruled
DATE 922 to 923
PLAC Verberie sur Oise,France
DATE 28 AUG 2000
TIME 22:29:31

EVEN
TYPE Acceded
DATE 922


NSFX Comté de Poitiers, Marquis de Neustria et Orleans
TYPE Book
AUTH Stuart, Roderick W.
PERI Royalty for Commoners
EDTN 3d
PUBL Genealogical Publishing co., Inc, Baltimore, MD (1998)
ISB 0-8063-1561-X
TEXT 169-37
TYPE Book
AUTH Å or c:Weis, Frederick Lewis
PERI Ancestral Roots
EDTN 7th
PUBL Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD (1999)
TEXT 48-18; 53-18aka Robert I de PARIS.
TYPE E-Mail Message
AUTH Ed Mann <EDLMANN@@MAIL2.LCIA.COM>
TITL Re: Charlemagne, lines of; Robert the Bruce, and Campbells
DATE 8 Feb 1998
LOCA GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@@rootsweb.com/PowerMac6500>Applications>Reunion>Documents-source
DATE 8 MAY 2000

OCCU Rutpert IV ...
SOUR HAWKINS.GED says 825; members.aol.com/sargen3 says ABT 820, France;
misc.traveller.com/genealogy/gedhtml/kmilburn says 820;
gendex.com/users/daver/rigney/D0001 says 820
SOUR Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart,p5 says slain 15 Sept or25 Aug 866;
The Conquest of England, Eric Linklater, p. 21 says 866;
ROYAL.THD (Compuserve) & gendex.com/users/daver/rigney/D0001 says 866
SOUR Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 126, 164;
gendex.com/users/daver/rigney/D0001;
Count of Paris - COMYNI.GED (Compuserve); Charles the Bald in 861 gavethe
important military command of Paris to Robert, count of Tours, calledRobert
the Strong.  Robert, who fought stoutly against the Norse invaders waskilled
in battle - The Conquest of England, Eric Linklater, p. 15
For the dispute on the parentage of Robert, see
ROBERT LE FORT, son of Rutpert III and Waldrada: THE PARENTAGE OF ROBERTTHE STRONG  [EXCERPTED FROM: G.A. Moriarty's PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY; allmaterial in double-quotes is a direct quote from him.]
"The question of the parentage of Robert the Strong, Marquis of Anjou, isnot fully as yet settled and the erudits are not in accord.
"According to Richaer, who wrote more than 100 years after the time ofRobert the Strong, who first occurs in 852, was the son of Witichin, asgiven on p.9 ante.  Witichin = "Young Gui."  In a very
doubtful charter he is styled "son of Robert."
"J. Depoin ("Les origines de Robert le Fort," REVUE HISTORIQUES, 1908; J.Calmette, "La famille de Saint-Guilhem et l'ascendance de Robert leFort," ANNLES DES MIDI, 1928) and Chaume ("R