Rudolph of France
King of France (890-936) · France · On the map · Politicians · Died at 46
He took the throne through marriage and spent thirteen years trying to hold it against Viking longships cutting up the rivers of tenth-century France.
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Rudolph was born around 890 and married into the line that would give him a crown. When his father-in-law Robert I died in 923, Rudolph was elected king of West Francia. The kingdom he inherited was under constant siege: Viking raiders pushed inland along the waterways, and much of his reign became a grinding effort to keep the realm from splintering under the pressure. He ruled until his death on 14 or 15 January 936, after thirteen years of defending a throne won by election and kept by endurance.
