# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugh-the-great
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:54:32.387Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugh-the-great"
name: "Hugh the Great"
slug: "hugh-the-great"
description: "He held more power than the king himself — duke of the Franks, count of Paris, the weightiest lord in tenth-century France — yet never took the crown. His son would."
tagline: "Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris (c. 898–956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hugues_le_Grand_duc_des_Francs.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
profileType:
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  slug: "other"
birthDate: "898"
deathDate: "0956-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             21.03320041990771
  historical:           22.490644
  currentAttention:     26.31685947601225
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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    slug: "other"
  - name: "Medieval Era"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 898 to King Robert I and Beatrice of Vermandois, Hugh inherited the title of Margrave of Neustria and became the dominant magnate in a fractured realm. In 936 he helped bring King Louis IV back from England, then married Otto the Great's sister Hedwig of Saxony the following year — binding himself to the Holy Roman Emperor while his new sister-in-law Gerberga became Louis' queen. He spent years fighting Louis even as family ties knit them together. When Hugh died on 16 June 956, he left behind a son, Hugh Capet, who would found the dynasty that his father never claimed for himself. He backed the succession of Louis and Gerberga's son Lothair, keeping the throne in other hands one last time.