FRANCE, Appointed by Odo as the ruler of several counties, including the county of Paris, and abbot in commendam of many abbeys. Robert also secured the office of Dux Francorum, a military dignity of high importance. Robert I of

Other Events and Attributes:

• Misc: Robert succeeded the Carolingian king Charles the Simple, and before him, Robert's brother Odo. Robert and his brother Odo were from the family known as the Robertians
• Relation to Me: 34 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Count of Poitiers, Count of Paris and Marquis of Neustria and Orléans.
• Title: Count of Poitiers, Count of Paris and Marquis of Neustria and Orléans
• Title: King of West Francia
• _MILT: 885; Robert was present at the Siege of Paris
• _MILT: 898; He did not claim the crown when Odo died; instead recognized the supremacy of Charles the Simple. Charles then confirmed Robert in his offices and possessions, after which he continued to defend N. Francia from the attacks of the Norsemen.
• _MILT: Jan 921; Defeated a large band of Norse in the Loire Valley, and the defeated invaders converted to Christianity and settled near Nantes.
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 922 and 923; King of West Francia
• _MILT: 2 Jun 922, Rheims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; Supported by many of the clergy and by some of the most powerful of the Frankish nobles, Robert took up arms, drove Charles into Lorraine, and was himself crowned king of the Franks
• _MILT: 15 Jun 923, Soissons, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France; Rule was contested by the Viking leader Rollo. W/Rollo, Charles marched against Robert. Robert was killed but his army won the battle. Charles was captured.

Notes:

Robert faithfully served his older brother, King Eudes, during Eudes’s reign (888-898), as margrave. Though on Eudes’s death he became one of the most powerful Frankish lords, inheriting all the family lands between the Seine and the Loire rivers, he swore fealty with other magnates to the new king, the Carolingian Charles III the Simple. From 911 onward, his role became more decisive: his defeat of the Northmen at Chartres paved the way for the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, by which Charles assigned them territory in Normandy. Robert stood as godfather at the baptism of Rollo, the Northmen’s chief.

Robert’s military success greatly enhanced his prestige, and dissension between him and the king became undisguised. When Charles III imprudently offered preferment exclusively to lords from Lorraine, the Neustrian lords, led by Robert, broke into open revolt. They elected Robert king at Reims in June 922, and the East Frankish king Henry I immediately recognized Robert’s kingship and rights to Lorraine. In a battle near Soissons in 923, Charles’s army was routed, but Robert was killed. His grandson was Hugh Capet, founder of the Capetian dynasty.

Died:
Killed in battle defending his crown against Charles the Simple. Succeeded as king by his son-in-law Rudolph, Count of Burgandy, also known as Raoul.

Robert married WESTERN FRANCIA, AelisSoissons, Aisne, Picardie, France. Aelis was born in Picardie, France; died in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. ADELE was born in 891; died on Vermandois, Normandy, France.

Robert married VERMANDOIS, Beatrice in 895 in Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France. Beatrice (daughter of HERBERT, Count of Soissons, Count of Meaux, Count of Vermandois, and lay abbot of Saint Quentin. I and MORVOIS, Bertha de) was born in 880; died in 931 in Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. DEFRANCE, Emma was born in 894; died in 935.
2. GREAT, Hugh the was born in 898 in Isle, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died on 16 Jun 956 in Dourdan, Essonne, Île-de-France, France.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Misc: He was the father of two kings of West Francia Odo (or Eudes) and Robert I of France. Robert the Strong was the great-grandfather of Hugh Capet and thus the ancestor of all the Capetians.
• Misc: His family is named after him and called the Robertians.
• Title: After their arrival in his realm Charles the Bald rewarded the family defecting from his enemy by assigning to Robert the lay abbacy of Marmoutier in 852.
• Title: Margrave in Neustria. In 853 he was named missus dominicus (Latin for "ruler" overseer of administration and justice) by Charles the Bald, King of West Francia.
• Title: Named missus dominicus in the provinces of Maine, Anjou, and Touraine to Robert, giving him de facto control of the ancient ducatus Cenomannicus, a large duchy centred on Le Mans and corresponding to the ancient realm of regnum Neustriae
• Immigration: 850; During the reign of Louis the German in East Francia, the Robertian family emigrated from East Francia to West Francia.
• Misc: 853; Robert's rise came at the expense of the established family of the Rorigonids and was designed to curb their regional power and to defend Neustria from Viking and Breton raids.
• Misc: 858; Revolt sparked by a marriage alliance between Charles and Erispoe, Duke of Brittany, and by the investment of Charles’ son, Louis the Stammerer, with the regnum Neustriae, all which significantly curtailed the powers of both Salomon and Robert.
• _MILT: 858; Joined a rebellion against Charles the Bald. With the Bretons under Salomon he led the Frankish nobles of Neustria and invited Louis the German to invade West Francia and receive their homage.
• _MILT: 862; Charles granted Louis the Stammerer, his son, the lay abbacy of Saint Martin of Tours—a worthy benefice but small in comparison with the kingdom he had received in 856, and lost in 858. Louis rebelled and with Salomon, mounted war against Robert.
• _MILT: Between 863 and 866; Robert warred with Pepin II in his later years. In 863 he again defended Autun from Louis the German; he campaigned in Neustria in 865 and again in 866, shortly before his death, dealing with Bretons and Vikings ravaging the environs of Le Mans.

Notes:

Died:
He began fortifying Paris and fought the Norsemen continuously until his death in battle against them at Brissarthe.

Robert married DELATOURS CAROLINGIAN, Adelaide Judith Adelheid de Auxerre before 860 in France. Adelaide was born in 820 in La Chapelle, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France; died about 882 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rutpert married TOULOUSE, Wadrada of in 819 in Wormsgau, Saxony, Germany. Wadrada was born about 801 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France; died in 834 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]