Even the abbey of St Denis was held in commendam by Hugh Capet.

The Capetian dynasty (), also known as the House of France, is the largest and oldest European royal house, consisting of the descendants of King Hugh Capet of France in the male line.

The name of the dynasty derives from its founder, Hugh, who was known as " Hugh Capet ".

Historians came to apply the name " Capetian " to both the ruling house of France and to the wider-spread male-line descendants of Hugh Capet.

One notable use was during the French Revolution, when the dethroned King Louis XVI ( a member of the House of Bourbon and a direct male-line descendant of Hugh Capet ) and Queen Marie Antoinette ( a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine ) were referred to as " Louis and Antoinette Capet " ( the queen being addressed as " the Widow Capet " after the execution of her husband ).

The Carolingian dynasty ceased to rule France upon the death of Louis V. After the death of Louis V, the son of Hugh the Great, Hugh Capet, was elected by the nobility as king of France.

******* Hugh Capet, founder House of Capet

** Hugh Capet ( 987 – 996 )

Only in the time before Hugh Capet took the crown for himself and after the reign of Charles X is the term necessary to identify which.

It is important to note that historians class the predecessors of Hugh Capet as Robertians, not Capetians.

The medieval Kingdom of France emerged out of the western part of Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire, known as West Francia, and achieved increasing prominence under the rule of the House of Capet, founded by Hugh Capet in 987.

** Hugh Capet, 940-996

The dynasty established by Hugh Capet continued uninterrupted until 1328, and the laws of primogeniture ensured orderly successions of power.

The history of modern France starts with the election of Hugh Capet ( 940-996 ) by an assembly summoned in Reims in 987.

Hugh Capet decided so in order to have his succession secured.

France in the Middle Ages 987 – 1460: From Hugh Capet to Joan of Arc ( 1993 ), survey by a leader of the Annales School excerpt and text search

His youngest daughter, Hedwige of Saxony, married Duke Hugh the Great of France and was the mother of Hugh Capet, the first Capetian king of France.

His British colleague Hugh McGregor Ross helped to popularize this work — according to Bemer, " so much so that the code that was to become ASCII was first called the Bemer-Ross Code in Europe ".

By his first wife, Eschiva of Ibelin, he was the father of Hugh I of Cyprus and was crowned in Nicosia on September 22, 1197.

Hugh Fleming had four surviving children from his first marriage.

Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.

On March 3, 1923, in Havana, Cuba, Nin married her first husband, Hugh Parker Guiler ( 1898 – 1985 ), a banker and artist, later known as " Ian Hugo " when he became a maker of experimental films in the late 1940s.

This role was taken in the first two series by Lord Percy Percy, played by Tim McInnerny, with Hugh Laurie playing the role in the third and fourth series, as Prince George, Prince Regent, and Lieutenant George, respectively.

While the first telegraph company was the Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company, founded in 1846, it was the Montreal Telegraph Company, controlled by Hugh Allan and founded a year later, that dominated in Canada during the technology's early years.

Hugh Rank formed the Doublespeak committee and was the first chairman of this committee.

In the second, since he had no heirs and if he should die abroad the estates would pass to his sister, Mary, he entailed the lands of the earldom on his first cousin, Hugh Vere.

Mik Kaminski, Kelly Groucutt and Hugh McDowell joined the band for the first tour in 1991.

It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant.

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* 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France till the French Revolution in 1792.

On 6 December 1933 the first purported photograph of the monster, taken by Hugh Gray, was published in the Daily Express, and shortly after the creature received official notice when the Secretary of State for Scotland ordered the police to prevent any attacks on it.

Before his first visit to England in 1834, the labours of Hugh Miller and other geologists brought to light the remarkable fish of the Old Red Sandstone of the northeast of Scotland.

* 1933 – Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.

This was directed by Hugh Hudson and featured Kinnock's 1985 conference speech, and shots of him and Glenys walking on the Great Orme in Llandudno ( so emphasising his appeal as a family man and associating him with images of Wales away from the coalmining communities where he grew up ), and a speech to that year's Welsh Labour Party conference asking why he was the " first Kinnock in a thousand generations " to go to university.

Hugh Marwick's work has shown the name developing from ' Rollesay ' in the 14th century, through ' Rolsay ' in the 15th, and ' Rowsay ' in the early 16th, with the spelling ' Rousay ' first recorded in 1549.

Goldman's article " A Causal Theory of Knowing " ( Journal of Philosophy, v. 64 ( 1967 ), pp. 357 – 372 ) is generally credited as being the first full treatment of the theory, though D. M. Armstrong is also regarded as an important source, and ( according to Hugh Mellor ) Frank Ramsey was the very first to state the theory, albeit in passing.

In 1992, Crow recorded her first attempt at her debut album with Phil Collins ' producer Hugh Padgham.

Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper said in 1977 that More was " the first great Englishman whom we feel that we know, the most saintly of humanists, the most human of saints, the universal man of our cool northern renaissance.

Like Hugh Magnus, Henry was crowned as co-ruler with his father ( 1027 ), in the Capetian tradition, but he had little power or influence as junior king while his father still lived.

* Hugh Capet ( lived 938 – 996 ), first Capetian King of France

He was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of high treason, and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793 as a desacralized French citizen known as " Citoyen Louis Capet ", a nickname in reference to Hugh Capet, the founder of the Capetian dynasty – which the revolutionaries interpreted as Louis ' family name.

Hugh Capet ( c. 939 – 24 October 996 ), called in contemporary sources " Hugh the Great " (), was the first King of the Franks of the eponymous Capetian dynasty from his election to succeed the Carolingian Louis V in 987 until his death.

The cathedral at Noyon was where the first Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne was crowned in 768, as too was the first Capetian king, Hugh Capet in 987.

It is with the coronation of Robert II of France as junior co-ruler with his father, Hugh Capet, the first of the Capetian dynasty, that one chronicler of Sens dates the end of Carolingian rule.

This gave the young Lothair the opportunity to come to know his guardian's heir, the sixteen year old Hugh Capet, before his father's death in 956 ; Capet later became king and founder of the Capetian Dynasty.

Hugh Capet was the founder the Capetian dynasty, which would rule in France for the next eight centuries.

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.

The name derives from the nickname of Hugh, the first Capetian King, who was known as Hugh Capet and was a cognatic descendant of the Carolingians.

The first Capetian monarch was Hugh Capet ( c. 940 – 996 ), a Frankish nobleman from the Île-de-France, who, following the death of Louis V of France ( c. 967 – 987 ) – the last Carolingian King – secured the throne of France by election.

* Hugh Capet ( 939 – 996 ), first Capetian King of France

The Carolingians were to share the fate of their predecessors: after an intermittent power struggle between the two dynasties, the accession in 987 of Hugh Capet, Duke of France and Count of Paris, established the Capetian dynasty on the throne.