Ancestry of
Henry Clay Folger

Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil

Hugh the Great

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• • 28th Great-grandfather of Henry Clay Folger — 31st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1271387136 
  • Father:
  • Robert I, King of France 
  • Mother:
  • Beatrice of Vermandois   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 0898 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 or 17 JUN 0956 
  • Death Location:
  • Dourdan, France 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hedwig of Saxony
  • Marriage Date:
  • from 9 May 0938 to 14 Sep 0938 
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  • Child:

  Hugh Capet (Ahnentafel No:635693568 )

  • Notes: 

  • Duke of the Franks, Count of Paris

• Sources for Hugh the Great

  • ¹ American-Canadian Genealogist, Manchester, New Hampshire: American-Canadian Genealogical Society, 1999, Iss. 82, Vol. 25, No. 4, p. 175.
  • ² Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650, Lancaster, Mass: (1950), 69.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Hugh the Great", (accessed 02/21/2010).
  • ⁴ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1942), 1653.