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Although he lived with a mistress — Bertha of Burgundy — and was excommunicated because of this, he was regarded as a model of piety for monks ( hence his nickname, Robert the Pious ).
* Robert II the Pious burns some canons of St. Croix in Orléans, for holding that the world is inherently evil.
On the death of Odo I, Fulk seized Tours ( 996 ); but King Robert the Pious turned against him and took the town again ( 997 ).
Saint-Germain-en-Laye was founded in 1020 when King Robert the Pious ( ruled 996-1031 ) founded a convent on the site of the present Church of Saint-Germain.
Robert II ( 27 March 972 – 20 July 1031 ), called the Pious () or the Wise (), was King of the Franks from 996 until his death.
Denier of Robert II the Pious, struck at SoissonsImmediately after his own coronation, Robert's father Hugh began to push for the coronation of Robert.
Robert, however, despite his marital problems, was a very devout Catholic, hence his sobriquet " the Pious.
The rite of the king's touch began in France with Robert II the Pious, but legend later attributed the practice to Clovis as Merovingian founder of the Holy Roman kingdom, and Edward the Confessor in England.
Information from several sources place him at the Cathedral school in Rheims in the 980 ’ s, where one of his fellow students was the future King Robert II ( the Pious ) of France.
In 1008, Robert II of France the Pious gave Charonne to the Abbey of Saint-Magloire, but it changed hands over the centuries.
* Jean-Paul Laurens-L ' Excommunication de Robert le Pieux (" The Excommunication of Robert the Pious ") ( Musée d ' Orsay, Paris )
The Capetian kings did not record such incomes, although the royal principality was more centralized under Louis VII and Philip II than it used to be under Hugh Capet or Robert the Pious.
A Hebrew text also states that Robert II " the Pious " of France having concerted with his vassals to destroy all the Jews on their lands who would not accept baptism, many were put to death or killed themselves.
Robert the Pious is well known for his religious prejudice and for the hatred which he bore toward heretics ; it was he who first burned sectarians.
While there had been a number of regional persecutions of Jews by Christians, such as the one in Metz in 888, a plot against Jews in Limoges in 992, a wave of anti-Jewish persecution by Christian millenniary movements ( who believed that Jesus was set to descend from Heaven ) in the year 1000, and the threat of expulsion from Treves in 1066 ; these are all viewed “ in the traditional terms of governmental outlawry rather than unbridled popular attacks .” Also many movements against Jews ( such as forced conversions by King Robert the Pious of France, Richard II, Duke of Normandy, and Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor around 1007 – 1012 ) had been quashed by either Roman Catholicism ’ s Papacy or its Bishops.
Little else is known about him save that he was chaplain to the French king, Robert II the Pious, whose life ( Vita ) he wrote.
Margot E. Fassler, “ Helgaud of Fleury and the Liturgical Arts: The Magnification of Robert the Pious ,” in C. Stephen Jaeger, ed.,
Helgaud of Fleury ’ s Life of Robert the Pious ,” Early Medieval Europe, VI, pp. 189-200. http :// onlinelibrary. wiley. com / doi / 10. 1111 / 1468-0254. 00011 / pdf
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