1512882198. King Robert II Capet of France
& 1512882199. Queen Constance of Arles
3/27/972,
Robert ‘the Pious’ born in at Château de Melun [Meulan] in France, s/o 3025764396.
Hugh Capet & 3025764397. Adelaide
of Aquitaine.
7/3/987,
Robert’s father Hugh ‘Capet’ succeeded
Louis V [Carolingian] as the 1st of the Capetian kings of
France.
12/25/987,
Robert designated as heir to his father.
Bef. 988,
Robert searched for a Byzantine princess to marry.
4/1/988,
Robert crowned at the cathedral of Sainte-Croix in Orléans [‘rex designatus’
King of the Franks – the beginning of a Capetian tradition to crown the eldest
son before the death of the father.]
[–––Robert & Rosalie–––]
988, By
arrangement of his father, Robert married Rosalie di Ivrea, widow of Arnulf II
of Flanders. Rosalie was given Montreuil-sur-Mer by the county of Flanders as
her dowry. [Rosalie much older than Robert.]
~988,
Constance born in Provence, d/o 3025764398. William I d’Arles &
3025764399. Adelaide-Blanche of
Anjou.
991, Robert
supported his father in preventing French bishops from attending the synod of
Pope John XV called at Mousson in Germany.
By 992,
Robert II repudiated Rosalie, who returned to Flanders.
993,
Constance’s father died.
10/24/996, King Robert II succeeded his father Hugh as
King of the Franks.
[–––Robert & Bertha–––]
Aft. 10/996,
Robert married 2nd his cousin Bertha de Bourgogne, d/o Conrad I ‘le
Pacifique’ King of Burgundy [and widow of Odo I of Blois]. The Pope refused to
sanction the marriage and excommunicated Robert.
997, Queen
Bertha did not honor her promise to give the town of Provins to the count of
Nevers.
997, King
Robert conducted campaigns against Poitou and Berry.
998, Pope
Gregory V called on King Robert to repudiate his wife on grounds of
consanguinity.
998, King
Robert of France rejected Count Fulk Nerra’s supporter Peter as ‘presul’ of
Tours; putting in place Walter as treasurer of Saint-Martin.
3/999, King
Robert affirmed his alliance with Hugh of Chalon and made him bishop of
Auxerre.
4/2/999, Pope Sylvester II succeeded Pope Gregory
V.
5/999, King
Robert confirmed a charter in which Maurice [brother of Fulk III of Anjou] is
styled count of Chalon.
999, King
Robert, allied with Bouchard of Vendome, destroyed the Angevin fortifications
at Massay.
1000, ‘Lord,
Robert, king of the French, was reigning.’ (S) Chronicle of Bernard Itier,
Lewis, 2013, P29. [The end of the world was expected daily.]
1001, King
Robert refused to divorce Bertha, and the kingdom of France was excommunicated.
9/1001,
Queen Bertha formally divorced from King Robert.
[–––Robert
& Constance–––]
1001, Robert
married to Constance.
6/7/1002, Henrich II succeeded as King of Germany.
1002, A peace agreement between King Robert and Count Richard of
Normandy.
10/1002, Robert’s uncle, Henry, duke of Burgundy died.
4/1003, King Robert, supported by Richard, duke of Normandy, invaded
Burgundy, vying with Otto-William, comte de Mâcon [step-son of Duke Henry].
They laid siege to Auxerre [unsuccessfully] into the summer.
5/16/1003, Pope John XVII succeeded Pope Sylvester II.
8/1003, King Robert designated Bertha’s eldest son Theobald as bishop
of Chartres.
1/1004, Pope John XVIII succeeded Pope John XVII.
1004, Count
Odo of Blois allied with his brother-in-law Richard, duke of Normandy, in a
coordinated attack on Anjou from west and east. The campaign never occurred
because of intervention by King Robert of France.
6/15/1004,
Robert’s mother died.
1005, After
a 3-month siege, King Robert captured Avallon [in Burgundy]. (S) Universal
Geography, Matle-Brun, 1834, P962.
1005-6, Fulk
of Anjou and King Robert publically reconciled.
5/1006, In
negotiations to end the war between Normandy and Blois, King Robert met with
Duke Richard at the Norman monastery of Fecamp.
6/1006, Baldwin
IV of Flanders defeated the forces of King Robert and Count Richard at
Valenciennes. (S) Cambridge Medieval History, Vs1-5, Bury.
8/1006 at
Meuse, King Robert II of France met with King Henry II of Germany and formed an
alliance against Counts Baldwin of Flanders and Lambert of Hainaut.
9/1006, At a
stalemate at Valenciennes, a truce called between the waring factions.
1007, Hugh
of Beauvais tried to convince Robert to divorce Constance.
9/1007, In
negotiations to end the war between Normandy and Blois, King Robert met with
Odo II and the Archbishop of Tours.
1007, King
Robert of France, Odo, count of Blois’s step-father, imposed a settlement
between Odo and Richard, duke of Normandy.
6/17/1008,
By the Council of Chelles, Queen Constance was set aside and Bertha was
reinstated.
1008,
Robert, accompanied by his 2nd wife Bertha, travelled to Rome to
seek a divorce from Constance and remarriage to Bertha. [Which was denied.]
1008, Count Fulk Nerra arranged for the
murder of the king’s favourite Hugh of Beauvais, count palatine. 12 of his men
killed Hugh, who at the time was hunting with King Robert. [Constance a cousin
of Count Fulk Nerra.]
7/31/1009, Pope Sergius IV succeeded Pope John XVIII.
10/1010, King Robert, Queen Bertha, and her son Odo II attended Duke
William’s great celebration held at the monastery of Saint-Jean-d'Angély.
Aft. 5/1012, Bertha, consort of King Robert, died.
1012, Constance and King Robert went to Orleans to crush a set of
heretics, who had lately made their appearance in the city. (S) European Mag.,
V69, 1816, P401.
4/26/1014, Heinrich II, King of Germany, succeeded Otto III as Holy
Roman Emperor.
1014, King Robert confirmed a charter of Duke Richard II of Normandy.
(S) Language Made Visible, Georgi, 2008, P310.
4/22/1015, King Robert captured Sens; Count Renaud of Sens escaped and
took refuge with Odo II of Blois.
4/1016, King Robert made another trip to Rome.
1016, King Robert II of France [likely due to Baldwin of Flanders’ rise
in prominence] appointed Baldwin’s illegitimate uncle Azelin as Bishop of
Paris. [Robert, soon after deposed Azelin.]
1016, Robert, recognized by the Church for his claim on Burgundy, made
his son Henry the Duke of Burgundy.
11/30/1016, Cnut became King of Denmark and all of England.
6/9/1017 at
Compiegne, The crowning [‘rex designatus’] of King Robert’s son Hugh Magnus.
1019, King
Robert of France with Richard, duke of Normandy, laid siege to and captured
Melun. (S) Dukes of Normandy, Duncan, 1839, P57. [They assaulted Melun from
both sides.]
1019, Robert
made an expedition into Aquitaine.
1020,
Emperor Heinrich II of Germany, supported by King Robert II of France, invaded
Flanders and laid siege to Saint-Omer and attacked Ghent.
1021, King
Robert invested Odo II of Blois with the norther counties in Meaux and Troyes
on the death of his cousin Stephen. [King Robert took back the counties a year
later.] (S) France in the Making, Dunbabin, 2000, P192.
1022, Odo
II’s succession to Champagne called into question by King Robert.
12/1022,
Members of the clergy, including Stephen, Constance’s previous confessor, tried
on charges of heresy. As the condemned clerics left the trial, Constance
‘struck out the eye of Stephen’ with the staff which she carried.
12/28/1022,
at Orleans, Robert and Constance had 13-14 heretics burned in a communal fire.
[Robert dated one of his charters ‘the year when the heresiarch Stephen and his
accomplices were condemned and burned at Orleans.]
1022-3, Odo
II of Blois challenging King Robert’s authority in Reims. (S) Families,
Friends, and Allies; Tanner, 2004, P78.
3/1023, King
Robert and Count Fulk Nerra of Anjou met near Vihiers.
1023, King
Robert and King Henry II of Germany met with their forces camped on opposited
sides of the Meuse. The kings exchanged gifts and issued a joint charter in
favor of the monastery of Cluny.
1024, King
Robert chose Arnulf of Belleme to succeed his maternal uncle, Hugh of
Châteaudun, as Archbishop of Tours.
1024-25, Odo
II of Champagne and King Robert of France met at Tours and agreed on a joint
campaign into Germany over the succession of Burgundy. [The campaign never
materialized.]
9/8/1024, Conrad II succeeded as King of Germany.
1025, King Robert supported rebels, led by Frédéric II Duke of Upper
Lotharingia [Robert’s cousin], opposed to King Konrad II. [Robert refused the
crown of Italy which they offered to him.]
1025, Robert [unsuccessfully] attacked Metz; and took control of Dreux
after the death of the Bishop of Orleans.
9/17/1025, King Robert’s heir, Hugh, died [to be succeed by 2nd
son Henry.]
1025, On the death of the eldest son Hugh, sons Henry and his brother
Robert continued the rebellion against King Robert.
1025, Robert retreated to Beaugency near Paris.
1025-26, Regional conflict involved King Robert of France, Baldwin of
Flanders, Odo of Champagne, the dukes of Upper and Lower Lorraine, and Conrad
‘the younger’ and Ernest of Suabia.
5/29/1026, Constance’s mother died.
3/26/1027, Conrad II succeeded as Holy Roman Emperor.
5/14/1027,
Robert had his son Henry crowned King at Reims [‘rex designatus’.] Queen
Constance did not approve of the crowning, preferring her younger son Robert as
successor.
5/15/1027,
King Robert II restores 7 churches taken from the monks of Montier-en-Der by
knight Stephen of Joinville, who is excommunicated. Witnesses included an
archbishop, 9 bishops, 3 abbots, and 2 counts. (S) Cartulary of Montier-en-Der,
Bouchard, 2004, P121.
1027, Count
Odo of Blois wrote to King Robert II complaining of the confiscation of his
benefice [Reims], without a hearing of his case, even though he had performed
his due services. (S) Medieval Law, Harding, 2002, P206.
4/1028, King
Robert held court in Paris which was attended by Bishop Odolricus of Orléans;
Count Fulk Nerra; and Count Odo II.
1028, Robert
translated the relics of St Savinien on his shoulders.
1028, The
canons of Chartres complained to the Archbishop of Sens about Robert’s choice
for their successor. [They wanted their dean Albert to be elected.]
1029 at
Orleans, Robert translated the relics of St-Aignan on his shoulders.
1029-31,
Robert’s sons Henry, and his brother Robert, rebelled against their father.
1030,
‘Raynaldi comitis, Adheleys uxoris eius’ subscribed the charter by which
‘Robertus regis Roberti filius et regis Henrici filii eius germanus … Burgundie
Dux’ restored property to Cluny.
6/1031, There was a partial eclispse of the Sun – considered a bad
omen.
7/20/1031,
Robert died; buried at Saint-Denis.
[–––Constance–––]
1031-2,
Henry’s mother, Queen Constance, having allied nobles against the king, took
control of several important towns in dower inlcuding Senlis, Sens, Bethisy,
Dammartin, Le Puiset, Melun and Poissy.
1033, Queen
Constance gave half of Sens to Odo, count of Blois, which Odo occupied. Duke
Robert of Normandy came to Henry’s assistance. Others supporting Henry were
Fulk Nerra of Anjou and Baldwin of Flanders. Fulk defeated the Blesevins at
Gournay and Clairvix. Count Odo had to seek a peace agreement. Henry beseiged
his mother Queen Constance at Poissy, but she escaped.
1033, King
Henry and Queen Constance reconciled.
1034, Queen
Constance died; buried at St. Denis.
(S) Fulk
Nerra, Bachrach, 1993. (S) Foundation for Medieval Genealogy. (S) The
Capetians, Bradbury, 2007.
Children
of Robert and Constance:
i. Hughes of France, born 1007 in France.
9/17/1025,
Hugh died; buried Compiègne, church of the Abbaye de Saint-Corneille; his
brother Henry becoming co-king.
ii. Henry I Capet (1272928372), born 5/4/1008 in
France.
iii. Adela Capet (756441099), born 1109 in France.
iv. Robert I of Burgundy (1512882502), born 1011 in
France.
No comments:
Post a Comment