The fact that the Capetians both held lands as Prince as well as in the title of King gave them a complicated status.

In the Merovingian era, the city was capital of the kingdom of Orléans following Clovis I's division of the kingdom, then under the Capetians it became the capital of a county then duchy held in appanage by the house of Valois-Orléans.

Beginning with Robert II of France, the title has been held by the Capetians, the French royal family.

Since the Point of Departure which set this alternate history off is the survival of Richard the Lion Heart until 1219 and his success in eliminating the Capetians and making himself King of France, presumably in this history The Fourth Crusade of 1204 which fatally crippled the Byzantine Empire never took place.

Both husband and wife are Capetians, descending in unbroken male line from King Robert II of France ( 972-1031 ), Charles-Philippe through the elder son, King Henry I of France, via the cadet branch of the House of Bourbon-Orléans, and Diana from his younger son Robert I, Duke of Burgundy through the royal ( though illegitimate ) Portuguese branch of the House of Braganza.

However, the Capetians failed to establish themselves in England – Louis was forced to sign the Treaty of Lambeth, which legally decreed that he had never been King of England, and the Prince reluctantly returned to his wife and father in France.

Unfortunately for the Capetians, the endeavour proved a failure, and the King himself died of dysentery at Perpignan, succeeded by his son, Philip IV.

The direct Capetians, or the House of Capet, ruled France from 987 to 1328 ; thereafter, the Kingdom was ruled by cadet branches of the dynasty.

In the Seventh Crusade, the Capetians were defeated and put to flight ; between fifteen and thirty thousand of their men fell on the battlefield.

; Franconian Babenbergers / Robertian Capetians

Eventually, it was decided based on several legal reasons ( later reinterpreted as Salic Law ) that Jeanne was ineligible to inherit the throne, which passed to the Comte de Poitou, who became Philip V. He, however, produced no surviving sons with his wife, Joan, Countess of Burgundy ( 1291 – 1330 ), who had been cleared of her charges of adultery ; thus, when he died in 1322, the crown passed to his brother, Charles ( 1294 – 1328 ), Comte de La Marche, who became Charles IV ; the County of Burgundy, brought to the Capetians by the marriage of Joan and Philip V, remained with Joan, and ceased to be part of the royal domains.

The Capetians, as they were descended from the Robertians, were formerly powerful princes themselves who had successfully unseated the weak and unfortunate Carolingian kings.

The late Capetians, although they often ruled for a shorter time than their earlier peers, were often much more influential.

The legacy of James I included the creation of a strategic Mediterranean enclave, including territories between two large kingdoms, the Capetians of France and the Crown of Aragon-which were in constant conflict, at the time.

Thomas Beckett was sent as ambassador to Paris in 1158 for leading negotiations and he displayed all the wealth the Angevins could boast of to the Capetians.

" The essential means by which the early Capetians were seen to have kept the throne in their family was through the association of the eldest surviving son in the royalty during the father's lifetime ," Andrew W. Lewis has observed, in tracing the phenomenon in this line of kings who lacked dynastic legitimacy.

After 987, the kingdom came to be known as France, because the new ruling dynasty ( the Capetians ) were originally dukes of the Île-de-France.

After John lost the Angevins ' continental territory along with Anjou itself to the Capetians in 1204, the family became known as the House of Plantagenet, adopting Geoffrey's nickname and ruling England until the reign of Richard II, after which the succession was disputed by two cadet branches, the House of Lancaster and the House of York.

Over the succeeding centuries, Capetians spread throughout Europe, ruling every form of provincial unit from kingdoms to manors.

A complete list of the senior-most line of Capetians is available below.

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

Thirdly, the Capetians had the support of the Church, which favoured a strong central government in France.

This alliance with the Church was one of the great enduring legacies of the Capetians.

Philip IV was so powerful that he could name popes and emperors, unlike the early Capetians.

Despite this alliance between the Plantagenets and the Capetians, the dynasty on the French throne, the two houses were sometimes in conflict.

Without the Capetians ' ideological trappings of an anointed monarchy forever entangled with the hierarchy of the Church, the king's administration and law unified the realm, rendering him relatively impervious to papal condemnation.

The House of Valois () was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty, succeeding the House of Capet ( or " Direct Capetians ") as kings of France from 1328 to 1589.

The Origins of France: From Clovis to the Capetians 500 – 1000.

His reign, like that of most of the early Direct Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the time.

His family, the later Capetians, ruled the whole of Neustria until 987, when Hugh Capet was elected to the kingship.

Only those who ruled a united Neustrian march are included, though the title " of Neustria " was carried by the earlier margraves of the Breton and Norman marches, the most notable by Robert the Strong, ancestor of these later Capetians.

* Edward James-The Origins of France: Clovis to the Capetians 500-1000.

The region, excepting Savoy, was part of the Merovingian and Carolingian Kingdoms before becoming a royal territory under the Capetians.

Much of European political history is dominated by dynasties such as the Carolingians, the Capetians, the Bourbons, the Habsburgs, the Stuarts, the Hohenzollerns and the Romanovs.

Robert was the great-grandfather of Hugh Capet and thus the ancestor of all the Capetians.

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The Roman Catholic Church does not consider the validity of an ecumenical council's teaching to be in any way dependent on where it is held or on the granting or withholding of prior authorization or legal status by any state, in line with the attitude of the 5th-century bishops who " saw the definition of the church's faith and canons as supremely their affair, with or without the leave of the Emperor " and who " needed no one to remind them that Synodical process pre-dated the Christianisation of the royal court by several centuries ".

An unlimited number of requests may be held in the queue in this way simultaneously.

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This view of Gregory is also held by some modern theologians, such as John Sachs who said that Gregory had " leanings " toward apocatastasis, but in a " cautious, undogmatic " way.

Then Jibril announced that consultations were under way to form an interim government within one month, followed by elections for a constitutional assembly within eight months and parliamentary and presidential elections to be held within a year after that.

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