King Robert I of France 
Robert was born about 0865 in Angers, Anjou, France. Robert's father was Duke Robert “the Strong” of France, IV and his mother was Adelaide. His paternal grandparents were Count Robert de Wormsgau III and Waldrada de Orleans; his maternal grandparents were Louis I ("the Pious") Holy Roman Emperor and Ermengarde de Hesbaye. He had two sisters named Beatrice and de Fortis. He was the youngest of the three children. He died on June 15th, 0923 in Soissons, France.General Notes
Marriage 1 Adele of FRANCE
Married: BEF 887
Children
Hildebrante of NEUSTRIA b: 887/891 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
Liutgarde of FRANKS b: ABT 887
Marriage 2 Beatrix de VERMANDOIS b: ABT 880 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
Married: ABT 890
Children
Hugh Great FRANCE b: ABT 895
Raoul BURGUNDY
Emma WEST_FRANKS
Robert the Strong (First Capet)
Robert I king of the West Franks 922-3
Duke of France and Count of Paris
Marquis of Neustria
Called an "Anti-King"
Robert I, King de France
AKA: Robert, King de Neustrie.
AKA: Robert I, Comte de Paris.
AKA: Robert I, Comte de Poitiers. AKA:
Robert I, Marquis d'Orleans.
Born: circa 865 in Angers, Anjou, France, son of Robert, Count de Blois and Adelaide=Aelis de Tours, Robert was alive in the year 865.
Note - between 910 and 923 in France: In 903, The Normands burned the famous Abbey de Saint-Martin in Tours. In 910, Rollon, the Dane Hrolf, attacks Paris but is pushed back by Robert and his forces. In 911, Rollon lays siege to Chartres, and the city is rescued by Robert with the help of the Bishop Gouteaume, who aprades before the troops bearing the cloak of the Virgin Marry. The next day, Rollon is pushed back having lost 7, 000 of his men. In 922, Robert plots against the King, Charles "Le Simple", and succeeds in rallying around him a number of malcontents. On 29 June 922, Robert is elected King by a faction of the Greats (assembly of nobles). Near Soissons, on 14 June 923, the two Kings fight and Robert is killed. Robert was King of Neustrie and the West Franks from 922 to 923. Died: on 14 Jun 923 in near Soissons, Aisne, Ile-de-France, France, Robert died at the Battle of Soissons while fighting against the troops of his foe King Charles "Le Simple" and his troops of Lorraine. His successor was an in-law, Raoul, Duke de Bourgogne, Abbe de Saint-Germain-d'Auxerre.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.< 0783 d.12 Jul 0807
- b.< 0798 d.> 0834
- b.0820 in Mainz, France d.15 Sep 0866 in Brissarthe, Anjou, France
- b.~ 0710 in Swabia, Germany
- b.< 0783 d.15 Feb 0824
- d.> 0724
- b.< 0798
- b.< 0706 in Treves, Rhenish Prussia, Germany d.> 0722
- b.< 0735 in France d.> 0783
- b.< 0783 d.>15 Feb 0824
- b.~ 0865 in Angers, Anjou, France d.15 Jun 0923 in Soissons, France
- b.0689 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.22 Oct 0741 in Quierzy-sur-Oise, Aisne, France
- b.0714 in Austrasia, France d.24 Sep 0768 in St. Denis, Paris, Seine, France
- b.~ 0686 in Austrasia, France d.0724 in France
- b.02 Apr 0742 in Ingelheim, Rheinhessan, Hesse-Darmstadt d.28 Jan 0814 in Aix-la-Chapelle, Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia
- b.~ 0720 in Laon, Aisne, France d.12 Jul 0783 in Choisy, Haute-Savoie, France
- b.Aug 0778 in Chasseneuil, Lot-et-Garonne near Poitiers, Aquitaine, France d.20 Jun 0840 in Petersaue, Ingelheim, Rheinhessan, Hesse-Darmstadt
- b.~ 0710 in Swabia, Germany
- b.~ 0757 d.~ 0782
- d.> 0724
- b.~ 0819 in Tours, Indre et Loire, France d.~ 0886
- b.0752 in Hesbaye, Liege, Belgium
- b.0773 in Hesbaye, Liege, Belgium d.03 Oct 0818 in Angers, Anjou, France
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Individual Additional Information
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Associated external link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_I_of_France
