King of France elected in 987 and founding the Capetian dynasty (940-996)
1 Even the abbey of St Denis was held in commendam by Hugh Capet .
2 At last the day of decision arrived for Hugh Capet .
3 The dynasty of Hugh Capet will die with Louis, unless he sets me free.
4 Death of Hugh Capet ; his son Robert succeeds.
5 The throne of France was granted before to Hugh Capet , by a few bishops and nobles.
6 In the long roll of thirty-three kings who reigned in France from Hugh Capet to Louis XVI.
7 The Carlovingians were displaced by Hugh Capet .
8 The great event of Richard's time was the above-mentioned recognition of Hugh Capet as King of France.
9 It has been shown how insignificant and inert, as sovereigns, were the first three successors of Hugh Capet .
10 Like Hugh Capet in France, like William the Conqueror in England, he hoped to establish himself as an independent king.
11 The words of Adalberon, Archbishop of Rheims, on the subject of the coronation of Hugh Capet , are still true to-day.
12 The barons, more astonished than ever, concluded to conduct him to the monarch who then reigned, the great Hugh Capet .
13 In vain, again, did certain feudal lords, especially in Southern France, refuse for some time their adhesion to Hugh Capet .
14 Then, in the ninth century, the Normans ravaged it; and then Charles the Simple; and then Lothair; and then Hugh Capet .
15 The accession of Hugh Capet took place in 987 A.D. His descendants reigned over France for almost exactly eight hundred years.
16 Some French genealogists go so far as to trace the descent of Hugh Capet to this hero of the Saxon woods.
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