Talk:Hugh of France (son of Robert II)

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Date of death

As well as Theis thinking that Hugh died in 1025, the New Cambridge Medieval History (IV:124) agrees. On Google books Behrends' The Letters and Poems of Fulbert of Chartres (lxxx, note 30) says 1025, as does Elisabeth VanHouts (ed.), The Normans in Europe, p. 193. As far as 1026 goes, Gauvaud's La France au Moyen Âge shows Hugh's death date as 1026, but in a genealogical table (p. 531) rather than the actual text. Most but not quite all of the material which lists 1026 is very old. Angus McLellan (Talk) 08:27, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Coronation

9 or 19th? Heraldica says 19. Michael Sanders 14:03, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Theis's book gives 9, as does this page. The fr:Chronologie des sacres des rois de France page says Sunday 9 June, and 9 June in 1017 appears to have been a Sunday. To be honest, it's amazing that we know the month and year of his coronation and death: whether it was the 9th or the 19th is pretty minor. I'd go with the 9th and put in a footnote to the effect that some say the 19th. Looking at things, I'd guess that the answer is that it used to be dated to the 19th and someone, somewhere rethought it and that the 9th became the accepted date from the late C19th. Chronology and synchronisms are black arts indeed. Angus McLellan (Talk) 16:12, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]