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Personal data King Robert II "Capet" (Robert II "Capet") of France 

• First name Robert II "Capet".
• He was born on March 27, 972 in Orléans, Loiret, Centre, France.
• Profession: King of France (vv.996-death), King of France (vv.996–1031), King of France, King of France from October 24, 996 to July 20, 1031, Roi de France (996–1031), King of France from 996 until his death, Konge, Roi de France, King, Konge av Frankrike, , kin.
• Resident:
• Orleans, Loiret, Centre, France.
• Centre-Val de Loire.
• He died on July 20, 1031 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France, he was 59 years old.
• A child of Hugh Capet of France and Adelais of Poitiers

Household of King Robert II "Capet" (Robert II "Capet") of France

He is married to Constance of Arles.

They got married about 1001 at Aquitaine, France.

Spouse: Robert II "the Pious" of France, King of the Franks

Child(ren):

1. Adèle of France  1003-1063 
2. Henry I of France  1008-1060 
3. Robert of Burgundy  1011-1076 

Notes about King Robert II "Capet" (Robert II "Capet") of France

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_II_of_France

 

Robert II (27 March 972 – 20 July 1031), called the Pious (French: le Pieux) or the Wise (French: le Sage), was King of the Franks from 996 until his death. The second reigning member of the House of Capet, he was born in Orléans to Hugh Capet and Adelaide of Aquitaine.

As early as 989, having been rebuffed in his search for a Byzantine princess,^[7] Hugh Capet arranged for Robert to marry Rozala, the recently widowed daughter of Berengar II of Italy, many years his senior, who took the name of Susanna upon becoming Queen.^[8] She was the widow of Arnulf II of Flanders, with whom she had two children. Robert divorced her within a year of his father's death in 996. He tried instead to marry Bertha, daughter of Conrad of Burgundy, around the time of his father's death. She was a widow of Odo I of Blois, but was also Robert's cousin. For reasons of consanguinity, Pope Gregory V refused to sanction the marriage, and Robert was excommunicated.^[9] After long negotiations with Gregory's successor, Sylvester II, the marriage was annulled.

Finally, in 1001, Robert entered into his final and longest-lasting marriage to Constance of Arles, the daughter of William I of Provence. Her southern customs and entourage were regarded with suspicion at court. After his companion Hugh of Beauvais urged the king to repudiate her as well, knights of her kinsman Fulk III, Count of Anjou had Beauvais murdered. The king and Bertha then went to Rome to ask Pope Sergius IV for an annulment so they could remarry.^[10] After this was refused, he went back to Constance and fathered several children by her. Her ambition alienated the chroniclers of her day, who blamed her for several of the king's decisions. Constance and Robert remained married until his death in 1031.

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