Hugh Capet

Succession to the Crown is limited to male princes descended from Hugh Capet.

Archive 2008-01-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008

There is no doubt that the Kings of France before 1792 and between 1814 and 1830 had believed themselves to be the inheritors of the ancient Kingly prerogative and rights invested in Hugh Capet in 987, and passed on to his descendants, successors to the Crown.

Salic Law and the line of Succession to Louis XX de Brantigny........................ 2008

There is no doubt that the Kings of France before 1792 and between 1814 and 1830 had believed themselves to be the inheritors of the ancient Kingly prerogative and rights invested in Hugh Capet in 987, and passed on to his descendants, successors to the Crown.

Archive 2008-01-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008

Succession to the Crown is limited to male princes descended from Hugh Capet.

Salic Law and the line of Succession to Louis XX de Brantigny........................ 2008

Under Hugh Capet, Henry, and Philip, the people on this side the Loire only, were called

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The father of Hugh Capet was rich only by his abbeys, and was called Hugh the Abbot.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

I therefore give my vote without hesitation, some three or four hundred years from the present time, to a daughter of France, then the only descendant remaining in a direct line from Hugh Capet.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

There is at present no relic in France of the government of Hugh Capet, nor in England of the administration of

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

What Celt will refuse to acknowledge her, unless we should discover some other beautiful and accomplished princess of the issue of Charlemagne, whose family was expelled by Hugh Capet, notwithstanding the Salic law? or unless indeed we should find a princess fairer and more accomplished still, an unquestionable descendant from Clovis, whose family was before expelled by Pepin, his own domestic, notwithstanding, be it again remembered, the

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

If Hugh Capet dispossess the legitimate heir of Charlemagne, he becomes the root of a race of heroes.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007