Robert II of France
King of the Franks from 996 to 1031
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A medieval French king who spent decades clawing territory from relatives, divorcing wives, and battling his own sons — yet walked away with a reputation for piety and miracle-working that his biographer sold as sainthood.
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Robert became junior king in 987 at around fifteen, educated by the future Pope Sylvester II and sent to lead councils and sieges alongside his father. Sole ruler by 996, he locked the Capetians into alliances with Normandy and Anjou while containing the Blois counts' reach. When his uncle died in 1002, Robert fought a three-year war for Burgundy against the dead duke's stepson and won. He married three times, had two unions annulled, and tried for a third annulment — the pope refused. His biographer Helgaud spun the reign as holy theater: donations, charity, the laying-on of hands to heal lep…
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