68: Hugh Capet

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68: Hugh Capet

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On 3 July 987 Hugues Capet, known in English as Hugh Capet, was elected King of the Franks at Noyon. The Carolingian House had failed in the west. The only remaining Carolingian was Charles Duke of Lower Lorraine, who committed treason by betraying the Franks in favor of the Germans in a bid to usurp […]

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