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Hugh Capet

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• • 33rd Great-grandfather of Ranulph Fiennes — 36th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 34460418622 
  • Father:
  • Hugh the Great 
  • Mother:
  • Hedwig of Saxony   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 0938 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Oct 0996 
  • Death Location:
  • Paris, France 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Adelaide of Aquitaine
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 0968 
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  Robert II, King of France

  Hedwig of France (Ahnentafel No:17230209311 )

  Gisela Capet

  • Notes: 

  • First King of France, Count of Paris

    Hugh Capet's given name is also seen as Hugues.

• Sources for Hugh Capet

  • ¹ American-Canadian Genealogist, Manchester, New Hampshire: American-Canadian Genealogical Society, 1999, Iss. 82, Vol. 25, No. 4, p. 175.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1981, Vol. 57, p. 32.
  • ³ Luther, George A., editor and compiler, The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635, Penobscot Press (2001), 80.
  • ⁴ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, p. 547.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, p. 268.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 548, 551, 555, 562-569.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 919.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Hugh Capet", (accessed 02/21/2010).
  • ⁹ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1942), 427, 1653.

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