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940 BC - Hugh Capet was born.
956 BC - Hugh inherited his father's estates and became one of the most powerful nobles in the much-reduced West Frankish kingdom.
978 BC - Hugh Capet allied himself with the German emperors Otto II and Otto III and with Archbishop Adalberon of Reims to dominate the Carolingian king, Lothair.
986 BC - He was king in all but name. After Lothair and his son died, the archbishop of Reims and Gerbert of Aurillac convened an assembly of nobles to elect Hugh Capet as their king.
987 BC - He was elected and crowned rex Francorum at Noyon in Picardy on the 3rd of July, by the prelate of Reims, the first of the house that would later bear his name to rule France.
996 BC - Died on the 24th of October in Paris and was interred in the Saint Denis Basilica.
956 BC - Hugh inherited his father's estates and became one of the most powerful nobles in the much-reduced West Frankish kingdom.
978 BC - Hugh Capet allied himself with the German emperors Otto II and Otto III and with Archbishop Adalberon of Reims to dominate the Carolingian king, Lothair.
986 BC - He was king in all but name. After Lothair and his son died, the archbishop of Reims and Gerbert of Aurillac convened an assembly of nobles to elect Hugh Capet as their king.
987 BC - He was elected and crowned rex Francorum at Noyon in Picardy on the 3rd of July, by the prelate of Reims, the first of the house that would later bear his name to rule France.
996 BC - Died on the 24th of October in Paris and was interred in the Saint Denis Basilica.
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