Robert II le Pieux … King of France 996-1031 972

Robert II le Pieux … King of France 996-1031 , 972–1031 (aged 59 years)

Name Robert II le Pieux … King of France 996-1031

Name: Robert II // King of France 996-1031
Given names: Robert II
Nickname: le Pieux
Name suffix: King of France 996-1031

Name Robert II the Wise … King of France

Name: Robert II // King of France
Given names: Robert II
Nickname: the Wise
Name suffix: King of France

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Birth	Source: Genealogics - Leo van de Pas Text: - Genealogie der Graven van Holland, Zaltbommel, 1969 , Dek, Dr. A. W. E., Reference: page 87 - Europäische Stammtafeln, Band II, Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven, 1975, Isenburg, W. K. Prinz von, Reference: Page 13 - ~Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser , Reference: 1961 - The Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, 1975 , Turton, Lt.Col. W. H. - The Hidden Tradition in Europe, The secret history of medieval Christian heresy, London, 1994, Stoyanov, Yuri, Reference: part biogr - Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America bef.1700, 7th Edition, 1992, Weis, Frederick Lewis, Reference: 57
Marriage	Source: Genealogics - Leo van de Pas Text: - ~Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser , Reference: 1961 - Les seize quartiers des Reines et Imperatrices Francaises, 1977, Saillot, Jacques, Reference: page 175.
Death	Source: Genealogics - Leo van de Pas Text: - Genealogie der Graven van Holland, Zaltbommel, 1969 , Dek, Dr. A. W. E., Reference: page 87 - Europäische Stammtafeln, Band II, Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven, 1975, Isenburg, W. K. Prinz von, Reference: Page 13 - ~Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser , Reference: 1961 - The Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, 1975 , Turton, Lt.Col. W. H. - The Hidden Tradition in Europe, The secret history of medieval Christian heresy, London, 1994, Stoyanov, Yuri, Reference: part biogr - Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America bef.1700, 7th Edition, 1992, Weis, Frederick Lewis, Reference: 57
Note	Source: Genealogics - Leo van de Pas Text: - Genealogie der Graven van Holland, Zaltbommel, 1969 , Dek, Dr. A. W. E., Reference: page 87 - Europäische Stammtafeln, Band II, Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven, 1975, Isenburg, W. K. Prinz von, Reference: Page 13 - ~Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser , Reference: 1961 - The Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, 1975 , Turton, Lt.Col. W. H. - The Hidden Tradition in Europe, The secret history of medieval Christian heresy, London, 1994, Stoyanov, Yuri, Reference: part biogr - Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America bef.1700, 7th Edition, 1992, Weis, Frederick Lewis, Reference: 57
Source citation	Genealogics - Leo van de Pas Text: - Genealogie der Graven van Holland, Zaltbommel, 1969 , Dek, Dr. A. W. E., Reference: page 87 - Europäische Stammtafeln, Band II, Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven, 1975, Isenburg, W. K. Prinz von, Reference: Page 13 - ~Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser , Reference: 1961 - The Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, 1975 , Turton, Lt.Col. W. H. - The Hidden Tradition in Europe, The secret history of medieval Christian heresy, London, 1994, Stoyanov, Yuri, Reference: part biogr - Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America bef.1700, 7th Edition, 1992, Weis, Frederick Lewis, Reference: 57
Source citation	Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_II_of_France

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Note	BIOGRAPHY Robert was the son of Hugues Capet, king of France, and Aelis. Immediately after his own coronation, Robert's father Hugues began to push for Robert's coronation. Hugues claimed reason was that he was planning an expedition against the Moorish armies harassing Borrel II of Barcelona, an invasion which never occurred, and that the stability of the country necessitated a co-king, should he die while on the expedition. Modern scholarship has largely imputed to Hugues the motive of establishing a dynasty against the claims of electoral power on the part of the aristocracy, but this is not the typical view of Hugues' contemporaries and even some modern scholars have been less sceptical of Hugues' plan to campaign in Spain. Robert was eventually crowned on 30 December 987. A measure of Hugues' success is that when he died in 996, Robert continued to reign without any succession dispute, though during his long reign actual royal power became dissipated into the hands of the great territorial magnates. Robert had begun to take on active royal duties with his father in the early 990s. In 991 he helped his father prevent the French bishops from trekking to Mousson in the kingdom of Germany for a synod called by Pope John XV, with whom Hugues was then in disagreement. As early as 989, having been rebuffed in his search for a Byzantine princess, Hugues Capet arranged for Robert to marry the recently-widowed daughter of Berengar II of Italy, Rosela Roxana, who took the name of Sussanah upon becoming queen. Many years his senior, she was the widow of Arnulf II of Flanders, with whom she had children, the oldest of whom, Baudouin IV, was of age to assume the offices of count of Flanders. Robert divorced her within a year of his father's death. He tried instead to marry Bertha de Bourgogne, daughter of Conrad I, king of Burgundy, around the time after his father's death. She was widow of Eudes I, comte de Blois, but was also Robert's cousin. For reasons of consanguinity, Pope Gregory V refused to sanction the marriage, and Robert was excommunicated. After long negotiations with Gregory's successor Sylvester II, the marriage was annulled. Finally in 1001 Robert entered into his last and longest-lasting marriage: to Constance de Provence, the daughter of Guillaume II 'le Liberateur', comte de Provence et Arles. She was an ambitious and scheming woman, who made life miserable for her husband by encouraging her sons to revolt against her father. Robert, however, despite his marital problems, was a very devout Catholic, hence his sobriquet 'the Pious'. He was musically inclined, being a composer, chorister, and poet, and made his palace a place of religious seclusion where he conducted the matins and vespers in his royal robes. However, to contemporaries, Robert's 'piety' stemmed from his lack of toleration for heretics: he harshly punished them. In that regard about 1018 the 'Manichaean' teachings appeared in Aquitaine; this sect rejected both baptism and the Cross, and apparently observed strict asceticism. Ten years later, ten of the canons of the Church of the Holy Cross at Orléans were accused of being 'Manichaeans' and of worshipping the devil. These canons, who included the confessor of Queen Constance, rejected the sacraments of the Church and denied the human birth of Christ together with the reality of his Passion and Resurrection. Brought to trial before King Robert 'the Pious', and an assembly of bishops, these heretics were consigned to the stake, but not before Queen Constance struck out the eye of her former confessor. The kingdom Robert inherited was not large, and in an effort to increase his power he vigorously pursued his claim to any feudal lands which became vacant, which usually resulted in war with a counter-claimant. In 1003 his invasion of the duchy of Burgundy was thwarted and it would not be until 1016 that he was finally able to get the support of the Church and be recognised as duke of Burgundy. The pious Robert made few friends and many enemies, including his own sons: Hugues, Henri, and Robert. They turned against their father in a civil war over power and property. Hugues died in revolt in 1025. In a conflict with Henri and the younger Robert, King Robert's army was beaten and he retreated to Beaugency outside Paris, his capital. He died in the middle of the war with his sons on 20 July 1031 at Melun. He was interred in the basilica of Saint Denis in Paris. He was succeeded by his son Henri in both France and Burgundy. Despite attempting to kill Henri and being expelled from his court, Constance was interred with Robert when she died in 1032. Source: Genealogics - Leo van de Pas Text: - Genealogie der Graven van Holland, Zaltbommel, 1969 , Dek, Dr. A. W. E., Reference: page 87 - Europäische Stammtafeln, Band II, Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven, 1975, Isenburg, W. K. Prinz von, Reference: Page 13 - ~Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser , Reference: 1961 - The Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, 1975 , Turton, Lt.Col. W. H. - The Hidden Tradition in Europe, The secret history of medieval Christian heresy, London, 1994, Stoyanov, Yuri, Reference: part biogr - Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America bef.1700, 7th Edition, 1992, Weis, Frederick Lewis, Reference: 57

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BIOGRAPHY
Robert was the son of Hugues Capet, king of France, and Aelis. Immediately after his own coronation, Robert's father Hugues began to push for Robert's coronation. Hugues claimed reason was that he was planning an expedition against the Moorish armies harassing Borrel II of Barcelona, an invasion which never occurred, and that the stability of the country necessitated a co-king, should he die while on the expedition. Modern scholarship has largely imputed to Hugues the motive of establishing a dynasty against the claims of electoral power on the part of the aristocracy, but this is not the typical view of Hugues' contemporaries and even some modern scholars have been less sceptical of Hugues' plan to campaign in Spain. Robert was eventually crowned on 30 December 987. A measure of Hugues' success is that when he died in 996, Robert continued to reign without any succession dispute, though during his long reign actual royal power became dissipated into the hands of the great territorial magnates.

Robert had begun to take on active royal duties with his father in the early 990s. In 991 he helped his father prevent the French bishops from trekking to Mousson in the kingdom of Germany for a synod called by Pope John XV, with whom Hugues was then in disagreement.

As early as 989, having been rebuffed in his search for a Byzantine princess, Hugues Capet arranged for Robert to marry the recently-widowed daughter of Berengar II of Italy, Rosela Roxana, who took the name of Sussanah upon becoming queen. Many years his senior, she was the widow of Arnulf II of Flanders, with whom she had children, the oldest of whom, Baudouin IV, was of age to assume the offices of count of Flanders. Robert divorced her within a year of his father's death. He tried instead to marry Bertha de Bourgogne, daughter of Conrad I, king of Burgundy, around the time after his father's death. She was widow of Eudes I, comte de Blois, but was also Robert's cousin. For reasons of consanguinity, Pope Gregory V refused to sanction the marriage, and Robert was excommunicated. After long negotiations with Gregory's successor Sylvester II, the marriage was annulled.

Finally in 1001 Robert entered into his last and longest-lasting marriage: to Constance de Provence, the daughter of Guillaume II 'le Liberateur', comte de Provence et Arles. She was an ambitious and scheming woman, who made life miserable for her husband by encouraging her sons to revolt against her father.

Robert, however, despite his marital problems, was a very devout Catholic, hence his sobriquet 'the Pious'. He was musically inclined, being a composer, chorister, and poet, and made his palace a place of religious seclusion where he conducted the matins and vespers in his royal robes. However, to contemporaries, Robert's 'piety' stemmed from his lack of toleration for heretics: he harshly punished them.

In that regard about 1018 the 'Manichaean' teachings appeared in Aquitaine; this sect rejected both baptism and the Cross, and apparently observed strict asceticism. Ten years later, ten of the canons of the Church of the Holy Cross at Orléans were accused of being 'Manichaeans' and of worshipping the devil. These canons, who included the confessor of Queen Constance, rejected the sacraments of the Church and denied the human birth of Christ together with the reality of his Passion and Resurrection. Brought to trial before King Robert 'the Pious', and an assembly of bishops, these heretics were consigned to the stake, but not before Queen Constance struck out the eye of her former confessor.

The kingdom Robert inherited was not large, and in an effort to increase his power he vigorously pursued his claim to any feudal lands which became vacant, which usually resulted in war with a counter-claimant. In 1003 his invasion of the duchy of Burgundy was thwarted and it would not be until 1016 that he was finally able to get the support of the Church and be recognised as duke of Burgundy.

The pious Robert made few friends and many enemies, including his own sons: Hugues, Henri, and Robert. They turned against their father in a civil war over power and property. Hugues died in revolt in 1025. In a conflict with Henri and the younger Robert, King Robert's army was beaten and he retreated to Beaugency outside Paris, his capital. He died in the middle of the war with his sons on 20 July 1031 at Melun. He was interred in the basilica of Saint Denis in Paris. He was succeeded by his son Henri in both France and Burgundy. Despite attempting to kill Henri and being expelled from his court, Constance was interred with Robert when she died in 1032.

Source: Genealogics - Leo van de Pas

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- Genealogie der Graven van Holland, Zaltbommel, 1969 , Dek, Dr. A. W. E., Reference: page 87
- Europäische Stammtafeln, Band II, Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven, 1975, Isenburg, W. K. Prinz von, Reference: Page 13
- ~Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser , Reference: 1961
- The Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, 1975 , Turton, Lt.Col. W. H.
- The Hidden Tradition in Europe, The secret history of medieval Christian heresy, London, 1994, Stoyanov, Yuri, Reference: part biogr
- Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America bef.1700, 7th Edition, 1992, Weis, Frederick Lewis, Reference: 57

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		alive dead

Great-grandparents

generation +3 relationship coefficient: 12.5% (Biological great-grandparents)

le Pieux has 3 great-grandfathers and 5 great-grandmothers recorded (8 in total).

Biological grandparents of father (4)

Parents Robert I … King of France 922-923 + Beatrice … (Marriage) of Hugues the Great … Duke of The Franks Comte de Paris

1 Robert I … King of France 922-923 866–923

2 Beatrice … 880–931

Parents Heinrich I der Vogler … Emperor Elect of the Holy Roman Empire 919-936 + Mathilde von Ringelheim (Marriage) of Hadevich von Sachsen

1 Heinrich I der Vogler … Emperor Elect of the Holy Roman Empire 919-936 876–936

2 Mathilde von Ringelheim 890–968

Stepparents of biological parent of father (1)

Stepparents Robert I … King of France 922-923 + Aelis … (Marriage) of Hugues the Great … Duke of The Franks Comte de Paris

1 Aelis … –

Parents of stepparent of father (3)

Parents Edward I the Elder … King of England 899-925 + Aelflaed … (Marriage) of stepmother Eadhild of Wessex

1 Edward I the Elder … King of England 899-925 871–924

2 Aelflaed … 878–918

Parents Edward I the Elder … King of England 899-925 + Eadgifu … (Marriage) of stepmother Eadhild of Wessex

1 Eadgifu … –968

Grandparents

generation +2 relationship coefficient: 25.0% (Biological grandparents)

le Pieux has 1 grandfather and 2 grandmothers recorded (3 in total).

Biological parents of father (2)

Marriage Hugues the Great … Duke of The Franks Comte de Paris + Hadevich von Sachsen

1 Hugues the Great … Duke of The Franks Comte de Paris 900–956

2 Hadevich von Sachsen 922–965

Stepparents of father (1)

Marriage Hugues the Great … Duke of The Franks Comte de Paris + Eadhild of Wessex

1 Eadhild of Wessex –937

Uncles and Aunts

generation +1 relationship coefficient: 25.0% (Full siblings of biological parents)

le Pieux has no uncles or aunts recorded.

Uncles and Aunts by marriage

generation +1 no blood relationship

le Pieux has no uncles or aunts by marriage recorded.

Parents

generation +1 relationship coefficient: 50.0% (Biological parents)

le Pieux has 1 father and 1 mother recorded (2 in total).

Biological parents (2)

Marriage Hugues Capet King of France 987-996 + Aelis …

1 Hugues Capet King of France 987-996 940–996

2 Aelis … 950–1006

Parents-in-law

generation +1 no blood relationship

le Pieux has 1 father-in-law and 1 mother-in-law recorded (2 in total).

Marriage with Constance de Provence (2)

Marriage Guillaume II le Liberateur … Comte de Provence et Arles + Adelaide Blanche d'Anjou

1 Guillaume II le Liberateur … Comte de Provence et Arles 950–994

2 Adelaide Blanche d'Anjou –990

Co-parents-in-law

same generation no blood relationship

le Pieux has 2 co-fathers-in-law and 2 co-mothers-in-law recorded (4 in total).

Parents-in-law of biological children (4)

Marriage Henri I … King of France 1031-1060 + Anna of Kiev

1 Jaroslav I Vladimirovitch Grand Duke of Kiev 1019-1054 980–1054

2 Ingegerd of Sweden 1001–1050

Marriage Baudouin V … Graaf van Vlaanderen 1035-1067 + Adèle de France

1 Baudouin IV … Graaf van Vlaanderen 987-1035 980–1035

2 Otgiva de Luxembourg –1030

Partners

same generation no blood relationship

le Pieux has one female partner recorded.

Partner of le Pieux (1)

1 Constance de Provence 986–1032

Partner chains

same generation no blood relationship

le Pieux has no members of a partner chain recorded.

Siblings

same generation relationship coefficient: 50.0% (Full siblings)

le Pieux has one sister recorded.

Full siblings (1)

Parents Hugues Capet King of France 987-996 + Aelis …

1 Hedwige de France 969–1013

Siblings-in-law

same generation no blood relationship

le Pieux has one brother-in-law recorded.

Partners of siblings (1)

Sister Hedwige de France

1 Reginar IV … Count in Hainault 950–1013

Co-siblings-in-law

same generation no blood relationship

le Pieux has one co-brother-in-law recorded.

Siblings of siblings-in-law (1)

Parents Reginar III of Hainaut + Adela of Leuven (Marriage) of Reginar IV … Count in Hainault

1 Lambert I The Bearded of Leuven 950–1015

Cousins

same generation relationship coefficient: 12.5% (Children of full siblings of biological parents)

le Pieux has no first cousins recorded.

Nephews and Nieces

generation -1 relationship coefficient: 25.0% (Children of full siblings)

le Pieux has one niece recorded.

Children of siblings (1)

Sister Hedwige de France

1 Beatrice de Hainault –

Children

generation -1 relationship coefficient: 50.0% (Biological children)

le Pieux has 1 son and 1 daughter recorded (2 in total).

Biological children (2)

Parents Robert II le Pieux … King of France 996-1031 + Constance de Provence

1 Henri I … King of France 1031-1060 1008–1060

2 Adèle de France 1009–1079

Children-in-law

generation -1 no blood relationship

le Pieux has 1 son-in-law and 1 daughter-in-law recorded (2 in total).

Partners of biological children (2)

Son Henri I … King of France 1031-1060

1 Anna of Kiev 1036–1076

Daughter Adèle de France

1 Baudouin V … Graaf van Vlaanderen 1035-1067 1012–1067

Grandchildren

generation -2 relationship coefficient: 25.0% (Biological grandchildren)

le Pieux has 2 grandsons and 1 granddaughter recorded (3 in total).

Biological grandchildren (3)

Parents Henri I … King of France 1031-1060 + Anna of Kiev

1 Hugues I Magnus … Comte de Vermandois et de Valois 1057–1101

Parents Baudouin V … Graaf van Vlaanderen 1035-1067 + Adèle de France

1 Robert I the Friesian … Graaf van Vlaanderen 1072-1093 1032–1093

2 Matilda van Vlaanderen 1031–1083

Grandchildren-in-law

generation -2 no blood relationship

le Pieux has 1 grandson-in-law and 2 granddaughters-in-law recorded (3 in total).

Partners of biological grandchildren (3)

Marriage Robert II le Pieux … King of France 996-1031 + Constance de Provence

1 Adelaide … Comtesse de Vermandois et de Valois –1120

2 Gertrude of Saxony 1033–1113

3 William I the Conqueror … Duke of Normandy King of England 1027/28 CE–1087

Summary for the shown extended family

The extended family of le Pieux has 35 members (including le Pieux). (additional members of the partner chains are not counted)

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Family with parents
father Parents Hugues the Great … Duke of The Franks Comte de Paris Hadevich von Sachsen	Hugues Capet King of France 987-996 940–996
mother	Aelis … 950–1006
elder sister Family Reginar IV … Count in Hainault Beatrice de Hainault	Hedwige de France 969–1013
himself	Robert II le Pieux … King of France 996-1031 972–1031

Family with Constance de Provence
himself	Robert II le Pieux … King of France 996-1031 972–1031
wife Parents Guillaume II le Liberateur … Comte de Provence et Arles Adelaide Blanche d'Anjou	Constance de Provence 986–1032
son Family Anna of Kiev Hugues I Magnus … Comte de Vermandois et de Valois	Henri I … King of France 1031-1060 1008–1060
daughter Family Baudouin V … Graaf van Vlaanderen 1035-1067 Robert I the Friesian … Graaf van Vlaanderen 1072-1093 Matilda van Vlaanderen	Adèle de France 1009–1079

Descendants

Robert II le Pieux … King of France 996-1031(972–1031)
- Constance de Provence1001
  - Henri I … King of France 1031-1060(1008–1060)
  - Adèle de France(1009–1079)