# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugh-capet
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:46:09.774Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/hugh-capet"
name: "Hugh Capet"
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description: "He broke a three-century royal monopoly. In 987, after the last Carolingian king died without an heir, the Frankish nobles elected Hugh Capet instead of reaching for another distant cousin — and every French king after him, through 1848, descended from that choice."
tagline: "King of the Franks"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "940"
deathDate: "0996-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Hugh Capet was born around 941, son of the powerful duke Hugh the Great and Hedwige of Saxony. Though he carried Charlemagne's blood through his paternal grandmother Béatrice of Vermandois and counted Otto the Great as an uncle, he was not Carolingian in the male line. When Louis V, the last Carolingian king, died in 987, the Frankish nobles elected Hugh to succeed him. He ruled as King of the Franks until his death on 24 October 996. The House of Capet he founded held the throne in direct line until 1328, then through cadet branches — with a Revolutionary interruption from 1792 to 1814 and a brief gap in 1815 — until the final crown fell in 1848.