NameRobert II "The Pious" Capet , King of France
Birth27 Mar 972, Orléans, France
Death20 Jul 1031, Melun, Aquitaine, France
Death Memoage 59
BurialSt. Denis
MotherAdelaide de Poitou (~945-1006)
Spouses
BirthBET 973 AND 986, Toulouse, France
Death25 Jul 1032, Melun, France
Death Memoage 59
Marriage1000, France
ChildrenHenri I (Capet) (~1008-1060)
 Adela (Alix\Aelis) de (1009-1079)
Notes for Robert II "The Pious" Capet , King of France
Robert II
b. c. 970,, Orléans, Fr.; d. July 20, 1031, Melunbyname ROBERT THE PIOUS, French ROBERT LE PIEUX, king of France who took Burgundy into the French realm.
The son of Hugh Capet, founder of the Capetian dynasty, and Adelaide of Aquitaine, Robert was educated at the episcopal school of Reims under Gerbert of Aurillac, later Pope Sylvester II. Soon after his own coronation (July 987), Hugh prudently arranged the election and coronation (December 987) of Robert, thus facilitating his son's eventual succession (October 996) as sole ruler. His excommunication as a result of his marriage within the prohibited degrees of relationship was eventually lifted after the repudiation of the childless Bertha in 1001. Constance of Arles, whom the King married two years later, was the mother of his successor, Henry I.
Robert's domain was not extensive; and, to increase his power, he vigorously and tenaciously pressed his claim to fiefs as they became vacant. Thus, when the duke of Burgundy died without an heir (1002), Robert went to war against a rival claimant. Only in 1015, however, did he finally succeed in subduing the rich duchy. (The gain was transitory, for in 1032 Henry I granted Burgundy to his brother, Robert, and it thereafter remained for centuries outside royal control.)
A patron of the Cluniac monastic movement, Robert apparently ruled firmly and judiciously in his own lands.



b. 27 Mar 0972, Orléans, France[156]
d. 20 Jul 1031, Melun, France, Age: 59[166]
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occ. King Of France
Notes for Constance de (Spouse 1)
aka: Constance de Toulouse, Queen of France
aka Constance Of Arles\Toulouse AKA Constance Of Provence
Married 1003 to Capet, Robert II the Pious of France, King of France
Child 1: Capet, Hugh of France, King of France, b. 1007
Child 2: Capet, Henry I of France, King of France, b. APR 1008
Child 3: Capet, Robert I of Burgundy, Duke of Burgundy, b. 1011
Child 4: Capet, Adela (Alix) of France, Princess, b. 1009
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