1 Jan 888 Jahr - Robertian Dynasty

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The Robertians, or Robertines, as they are known in modern scholarship, are the proposed Frankish family which was ancestral to the Capetian dynasty, and thus to the royal families of France and many other countries. The Capetians appear first in the records as powerful nobles serving under the Carolingian dynasty in West Francia, which later became France. As their power increased they came into conflict with the older royal family and attained the crown several times before the eventual start of the continuous rule of the descendants the Capetians, the descendants of Hugh Capet (ruled 987–996).

Hugh's paternal ancestral family, the Robertians, that can be found in clear records can be traced back to his great grandfather Robert the Strong (d. 866). His origins are not clear, but the medieval records which exist hint at an origin in East Francia, in what is now Germany, which was at that time still also ruled by the Carolingians. In particular, Robert the Strong's son Odo was said by Regino of Prüm to be a relative (nepos) of a Count Meingaud, count of in the area of Worms, who died in 892, and there are indications this Maingaud's family used the names Robert and Odo.

The modern proposals about their ancestry further back are based on the idea that there was one family which frequently named its sons Robert, including , Robert III of Worms (800–834), Robert the Strong (d. 866) and Robert I of France (866–923). For example one proposed ancestor is Robert of Hesbaye (c. 800), about whom we have almost no records.

The Robertian family figured prominently amongst the Carolingian nobility and married into this royal family. Eventually the Robertians themselves delivered Frankish kings such as the brothers Odo (reigned 888–898) and Robert I (r. 922–923), then Hugh Capet (r. 987–996), who ruled from his seat in Paris as the first Capetian king of France.

Although Philip II was officially the last king of the Franks and the first king of France, in (systematic application of) historiography, Hugh Capet holds this distinction. He is the founder of the Capetians, the royal dynasty that ruled France until the revolution of the Second French Republic in 1848—save during the interregnum of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. It still reigns in Europe today; both King Felipe VI of Spain and Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg are descendants of this family through the Bourbon cadet branch of the dynasty.

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