Family of Hugh Magnus of FRANCE and Raingarde of FRANCE

Husband:	Hugh Magnus of FRANCE (1007-1025)
Wife:	Raingarde of FRANCE ( - )
Children:	Beatrice CAPET (c. 1032- )

Husband: Hugh Magnus of FRANCE

Wife: Raingarde of FRANCE

Name:	Raingarde of FRANCE
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth		Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France
Death		France

Child 1: Beatrice CAPET

Name:	Beatrice CAPET
Sex:	Female
Birth	1032 (est)

Note on Husband: Hugh Magnus of FRANCE

Hugh (II) Magnus of France (French: Hugues le Grand) (1007 – 17 September 1025) was co-King of France under his father, Robert II, from 1017 until his death in 1025. He was a member of the House of Capet, a son of Robert II by his third wife, Constance of Arles.

 

The first Capetian King of France, Hugh Capet, had ensured his family's succession to the throne by having his son, Robert II, crowned and accepted as King during his own lifetime; father and son had ruled together as King thenceforth until Hugh Capet's death. Robert II, when his son was old enough, determined to do the same. Hugh Magnus was thus crowned King of France on 9/19 June 1017,[1] and thenceforth ruled beside his father. However, when older, he rebelled against Robert.

 

Hugh died, perhaps of a fall from his horse,[2] at Compiègne in 1025/1026 while preparing a rebellion against his father, aged around 18 years old.[1]

 

Rodulfus Glaber was fulsome in his praise of the young king, writing: "My pen cannot express all of the great and good qualities that he showed...in all things he was better than the best. No elegy can ever equal his merits."

 

As a King of France, he would be numbered Hugh II; however, he is rarely referred to as such.