Robert the Fort

Robert the Fort , (born between 815 and 820, seems it in Neustrie - killed the September 15th 866 with the Bataille of Brissarthe, Maine-et-Loire) was an important member of the franque aristocracy, resulting from the family of the Robertiens, ancestor of the dynasty capétienne, and marquis de Neustrie starting from 862. He was count of Tours, and of Anjou, the king Charles II the Bald person names it in 853 missus dominicus for these areas.

After a revolt against Charles II in 855, he becomes duke of Neustrie, the area between the Seine and the Loire and was illustrated in its fight against the Breton ones and the Norman ones.

Biography

Robert the Fort is most probably wire of Robert († 834), count of Oberrheingau and Wormsgau, and Waldrade, sister of Eudes of Orleans. At the time of a scientific conference held with Angers in 1987 at the time of the millenium capétien, the historian Karl Ferdinand Werner confirmed the Rhenish origin of Robert the Fort while being based on the testimony of Réginon de Prüm and confirmed the success of its establishment in the area ligérienne by the family fasteners which would have bound it to the clan animated by the Sénéchal Adalard and with two groups of relationship of the West, the counts Géroldien S installed with Blois, Châteaudun and Angers and the Widonide S based in the Marche of Brittany. However, for others, the ancestor of the kings capétiens, Robert the Fort, whose origin remains rather mysterious no matter what one says some, would be the son of a butcher… (in: Jean Duchy, French history told in Juliette, p 112).

Robert the Fort is quoted as of 836, but without being titrated. At the time them power struggles between wire of Louis Ier the Piles, it took to party for Charles the Bald person, who was the son-in-law of Eudes of Orleans, and it had to give up its grounds, built-in the kingdom of Lothaire Ier, to take refuge in the West, in its maternal family. In 852, Charles the Bald person does it laic abbot of Marmoutier, then the following year missus dominicus of the areas of Tours and Angers and probably count de Tours.

In 858, Charles the Bald person installs his son Louis II the stammerer with the head of the county of Mans and Robert, anxious, revolts by joining Louis Germanic the. He subjects only in 861, in exchange of the marquisat of Neustrie.

After the first offensives of the Viking S - which established bases with the mouth of the the Loire (853) and the Seine (856) - against the frank kingdoms, Charles the bald person, who reigns on these territories instructs Robert the Fort to defend them. It was thus of its responsibility to fight against the Breton ones and the Normands and it was finally killed as a combatant the latter with the Bataille of Brissarthe in 866.

Marriage and children

The wife of Robert the fort is not mentioned by the contemporary documents. An interpolation of the chronicle of Saint-Benign of Dijon, lets think that it is about Adelaide, girl of Hugues of Alsace, count de Tours. It would seem that it is acted in fact of a girl of Conrad Ier of Burgundy and this Adelaide, girl who could prénommer Emma.

He is the father of Eudes and Robert Ier de France which was both kings de France. By this last, he is the great-grandfather of Hugues Capet and thus the ancestor of all the line capétienne.

Caption

A legend claimed that he would be the son of a butcher… (for example in: Jean Duchy, French history told in Juliette , Paris: Amiot-Dumont, 1954, p.112). Dante, in the Divine comedy, affirmed the same thing of Hugues Capet. Current work showed falseness and showed of it that the family entourage of Robert the Fort plunges in families close to the capacity and is resulting from the franque aristocracy.

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