Robert II of France (Person) AKA the Pious, le Pieux, the Wise, le Sage
Robert II of France
972 AD - 1031 AD
AKA the Pious, le Pieux, the Wise, le Sage
- King of the Franks Co-reign with father Hugh Capet 987 – 996
- King of the Franks 996 – 1031
Robert was a devout Catholic, hence his sobriquet "the Pious." He was musically inclined, being a composer, chorister, and poet, and made his palace a place of religious seclusion where he conducted the matins and vespers in his royal robes. Robert's reputation for piety also resulted from his lack of toleration for heretics, whom he harshly punished. He is said to have advocated forced conversions of local Jewry. He supported riots against the Jews of Orléans who were accused of conspiring to destroy the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Furthermore, Robert reinstated the Roman imperial custom of burning heretics at the stake
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04/01/988 AD -
10/996 AD -
1001 AD - Issue
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1007 AD
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05/04/1008 AD -
1009 AD - Parents
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