Robert ll known also as the Pious or the Wise....was the second capet to reign following his father (Robert 1 was an earlier king of the franks grandfather to Hugh Capet)......he was married 3 times the first marrage he ended as soon as his father died the second was Berthe his cousin for which he was excommunicated and the last was Constance of Arles with which he had a number of children.
The House of Bourbon (English /ˈbɔːrbən/; French: [buʁˈbɔ̃]) is a Europeanroyal house of French origin, a branch of the Capetian dynasty (/kəˈpiːʃⁱən/). Bourbon kings first ruled France and Navarre in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Bourbon dynasty also held thrones in Spain, Naples,Sicily, and Parma. Spain and Luxembourg currently have Bourbon monarchs.
The royal Bourbons originated in 1268, when the heiress of the lordship of Bourbon married a younger son of King Louis IX.[1] The house continued for three centuries as a cadet branch, while more senior Capetians ruled France, until Henry IV became the first Bourbon king of France in 1589.[1] Bourbon monarchs then unified France with the small kingdom of Navarre, which Henry's father had acquired by marriage in 1555, and ruled until the 1792 overthrow of the monarchy during the French Revolution. Restored briefly in 1814 and definitively in 1815 after the fall of the First French Empire, the senior line of the Bourbons was finally overthrown in the July Revolution of 1830. A cadet Bourbon branch, the House of Orléans, then ruled for 18 years (1830–1848), until it too was overthrown.
The Princes de Condé were a cadet branch of the Bourbons descended from an uncle of Henry IV, and the Princes de Conti were a cadet branch of the Condé. Both houses were prominent in French affairs, even during exile in theFrench revolution, until their respective extinctions in 1830 and 1814.
When the Bourbons inherited the strongest claim to the Spanish throne, the claim was passed to a cadet Bourbon prince, a grandson of Louis XIV of France, who became Philip V of Spain.[1] Permanent separation of the French and Spanish thrones was secured when France and Spain ratified Philip'srenunciation, for himself and his descendants, of the French throne in theTreaty of Utrecht in 1714, and similar arrangements later kept the Spanish throne separate from those of the Two Sicilies and Parma. The Spanish House of Bourbon (rendered in Spanish as Borbón [borˈβon]) has been overthrown and restored several times, reigning 1700–1808, 1813–1868, 1875–1931, and since 1975. Bourbons ruled in Naples from 1734–1806 and in Sicily from 1734–1816, and in a unified Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from 1816–1860. They also ruled in Parma from 1731–1735, 1748–1802 and 1847–1859.
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg married a cadet of the Parmese line and thus her successors, who have ruled Luxembourg since her abdication in 1964, have also been members of the House of Bourbon. Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, regent for her father, Pedro II of the Empire of Brazil, married a cadet of the Orléans line and thus their descendants, known as the Orléans-Braganza, were in the line of succession to the Brazilian throne and expected to ascend its throne had the monarchy not been abolished by revolution in 1889.
All legitimate, living members of the House of Bourbon, including its cadet branches, are direct agnatic descendants of Henry IV.
(8) Louis VIII the Lion (5 September 1187 – 8 November 1226) was a Capetian King of France he was also disputed King of England from 1216 to 1217. Louis VIII was born in Paris, the son of Philip II and Isabelle of Hainaut from whom he inherited the County of Artois...although..he only reigned for 3 years as crown prince he was a fighter hence his title, ..he was married in 1200 at the age of 12 to blanche of castile and she bore him 13 children...
(6) Louis Vll born 1120 in Paris beng the 2nd son he was mapped out for the church but his elder brother died and he became his fathers heir...he was a learned and devout man....he went to the holyland on a crusade in 1148 accompanied by his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine whom he later divorced ad she married Henry Plantaganet ll of England...Louis had 2 more wives..In 1165, Louis' third wife bore him a son Louis had him crowned at Reims (he wd be the last capetian king crowned in this traditi...
(14) Charles IV of france of Champagne, King of Navarre, was the last direct capetian king of france from 1322 to his death ...like his father he was known as the fair or handsome"... was married 3 times his first wife being caught up in the tour de nesle affair.....also demanding was the refusal of the English king Edward ll(married to Isabella Louis sister) to pay homage to the French crown.....he died in 1328 aged 33 leaving no male issue...
n 1152, Eleanor of Aquitaine obtained a divorce from Louis VII-the church sanctioned the divorce for a variety of reasons, but it certainly helped that Eleanor could prove her husband had not been intimate w/her for some time & thus there was little likelihood an heir would be conceived. Within several weeks Eleanor met Henry Plantagenet, who was her match in every way that Louis had not been. They wed faster than propriety allowed & went on to solidify one of England's most powerful dynast...
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