Hugh crowns son as co-ruler
12/30/987 AD crowned
Immediately after his coronation, Hugh began to push for the coronation of his son Robert. The archbishop, wary of establishing hereditary kingship in the Capetian line, answered that two kings cannot be created in the same year.
Hugh claimed, however, that he was planning an expedition against the Moorish armies harassing Borrel II, Count of Barcelona (a vassal of the French crown), and that the stability of the country necessitated two kings should he die while on expedition.
Ralph Glaber, however, attributes Hugh's request to his old age and inability to control the nobility. Modern scholarship has largely imputed to Hugh the motive of establishing a dynasty against the pretension of electoral power on the part of the aristocracy, but this is not the typical view of contemporaries and even some modern scholars have been less skeptical of Hugh's "plan" to campaign in Spain.
Robert was eventually crowned that same year.
Subjects Who or What crowned?
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France Nation -
Hugh Capet King of the Franks 987 â...
Objects To Whom or What was crowned?
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Robert II of France (the Pious, le Pieux, the Wise, le Sage) King of the Franks...
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