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In 987, louis V, the last king of France, hung up, and since he had no direct heir after his death, the Carolingian dynasty collapsed. The Duke of France, Hugues Capet, was put on the throne, and France opened the Capetian dynasty, and he himself became Hugger I.
Yage I had his own territory, Île-de-France, which is a good island, and if you plant some more peach blossoms, you can become a paradise peach blossom island. However, the place is too small, only about 30,000 square kilometers, only one-fifteenth of the entire kingdom territory. The neighboring principalities of Normandy, Aquitaine, Burgundy, and Brittany were richer and more magnificent than him.
(The pink part inside the blue frame is the territory of the King of France)
The newly appointed Yuge I had a hard time, he had a name of a king but did not have the power of a king, and the vassals called the boss to the face, and the birds who did not give face did not bird him. The vassals were highly autonomous in their own territory, printing their own money and collecting taxes, as well as their own armies, and the king had to leave money to buy roads when he crossed the road to sell some goods. Even in the one acre and three quarters of the land on Peach Blossom Island, there are some castle owners of all sizes who do not pay attention to the king. His Holiness has no money for money, no land for land, and even the office of the leadership team is not stable. However, the life of the vassals was not good, and they were also in conflict with the castle lords of the territory.
The Capetian dynasty that has just started the game has a bad hand in his hand, how can this king be? How to play this bad card?
(Hurg I)
Although the king has little secular power, after all, he was crowned by the pope, and in addition to the secular regime, he is also the spiritual leader of his subjects, which has a strong symbolic significance. As soon as Yage I took office, he established a hereditary system of primogeniture, ensuring that the throne remained in his home. The princes of the great lords and princes were not interested in the throne, and the little lords could not speak when they had ideas, so everyone had no opinion, and the king's seat would return to your Capetian family.
The marriage of ancient European kings was generally a political marriage, the King of France had no real power, and finding a rich and powerful wife was the most realistic way, and when Hugh I was alive, he married the widow of the Franderbe Kingdom for Crown Prince Robert, but he most wanted to marry his cousin. In 996, Hurg I was deposed, and Crown Prince Robert became Robert II.
The first thing the new king did when he took office was to divorce his original wife on the grounds that he had not given birth to a son, and then marry his cousin. Pope Gregory V firmly disapproved of his remarriage, repeatedly persuaded him to be ineffective, and expelled him from the church. The consequences are severe, the subjects are Christians, the king is a pagan, and you don't even have the legal basis for being a king.
If you insist on marrying your cousin, you can't be a king, and if you want to be a king, you have to divorce your cousin. Jiangshan and beauty, you choose one, right? Sentient beings can't drink enough, true love can't be eaten as food, and finally Robert II can't withstand the pressure, so he had to divorce his cousin, find the pope and cry, I was wrong, I was wrong, I didn't dare anymore. With a wave of his hand, the Pope restored his teachings and changed his mind to a good child when he knew he was wrong. Robert II married another earl's daughter and had four sons. Cousin, divorce does not leave home, the king actually lives a life of a wife and a concubine.
In 1031, Robert II was hanged, and the son Henry, born of a third wife, succeeded to the throne as Henry I. Henry I's mother was biased to her grandmother's house, she liked her youngest son Robert the most, and always hoped that Little Robert would inherit the throne, and her husband kicked his legs and immediately helped his younger son rebel. Henry I was sleeping in a daze, caught off guard by his mother and brother, Emma, run! Henry I was panicked, and he didn't have time to wear his pants, so where did he go? Principality of Normandy.
(Henry I)
A hundred years ago, during the reign of King Charlie, in order to prevent the Normans from looting, he gave them a piece of land to establish their own homeland, called the Duchy of Normandy. Then the professional robbers washed their hands of gold, and several generations of people married French daughters-in-law, living the life of wives and children, and now the duke has passed to the sixth generation, and the current lord is the Duke of Robert.
The Normans were professional robbers, fierce by nature, and the other principalities did not dare to provoke them, and the stable robbers did not want to cause trouble, and everyone has always been at peace. This time the boss came to take refuge, and in order to show his loyalty, the Duke of Robert brought a group of men and horses back to Paris to help the boss regain the throne. Henry I, in gratitude, gave Normandy a piece of land north of Paris called Wakeson, which the Duke felt was a good deal. For a long time afterwards, friendly relations were maintained on both sides.
In the French story, the Kings were originally the protagonists, and the Normans should be supporting roles, but now the Normans have begun to dominate. Duke Robert robbed a shoemaker's maiden as mistress and gave birth to the Duke's only son, whom he named Guillaume. Illegitimate children in ancient Europe could not inherit titles or property, and Duke Robert designated his illegitimate son Guillaume as the heir to the principality, and everyone objected, but the objections were invalid. In 1034, Duke Robert made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Jerusalem, where he gave his fief to his seven-year-old son, Guillaume, on a walk-and-go trip.
In July 1035, Duke Robert died of a serious illness, and his eight-year-old illegitimate son, Guillaume, became the seventh Duke of Normandy. Ever since Guillaume was made heir, the child's upbringing has been particularly difficult, with all sorts of conspiracies and assassinations against him, his three guardians killed one after another, and he himself almost hanged up several times. Desperate, Guillaume found Henry I, the King of France, who owed his father's favor and could not but pay it back, so he sent troops to help him quell the rebellion and stabilize his position.
(Guillaume/William I)
In 1053, at the age of 26, Guillaume married Matilda, daughter of count Flandre, much to Henry I's displeasure. The territory of the Duchy of Normandy was originally large, the Normans from pirate origin were brave and good at war, the Principality was a solid military power, and now it was married to Flanders, and its power was further enlarged. The king instigated the pope not to agree to their marriage, but Guillaume was a donkey temper: I am married to your ass? In 1054 and 1058, Henry I twice took men to fight Guillaume, and both times were defeated, and the friendly relations between the two sides that had lasted for more than a hundred years broke down.
In 1066, Guillaume's life reached its peak, he led an army to defeat the new King of England, Harold II, and then crowned the King of England, opening the Norman Dynasty, he himself changed his English name to William I, also known as William the Conqueror. It is a little strange that the Duke of Normandy of France has what qualifications to be king of England?
At that time, the Vikings not only plundered France, but also Britain, and several countries in the west were not rivals of pirates. Cnut, the pirate leader from Denmark, defeated England and Sweden successively, becoming the king of Britain, Denmark and Switzerland, while also occupying most of Scotland and southern Norway, and the pirate empire of Northern Europe reached its historical peak in his hands. He himself was also known as Cnut the Great.
(Cnut the Great)
The Cnut the Great was married twice, and after the death of the first queen, the second queen was Emma, the sister of the Duke of Normandy and Guillaume's aunt, who promised when he proposed that the children born to Queen Emma would inherit the English throne. In 1042, Queen Emma's son Edward became King of England, known historically as Edward III. In 1066, Edward III hung up, and since he had no descendants, the nobles of England elected Harold king, and the Normandy cousin Guillaume was gone: Are you blind? Can't A living person of my age see? Isn't my cousin the legitimate heir to the Crown?
At that time, the new King Harold had just ascended the throne, and the situation in the country was not yet fully understood, Guillaume swung his oars, and the big ship pushed away the waves, and suddenly swung to England, facing the bloody rain, and the famous Battle of Hastings broke out after bearing it. The result, of course, was that Guillaume won the battle, and he became William I of England.
(Battle of Hastings)
Thirty years east of the river, thirty years of west of the river, the current William is not the former Guillaume, his strength has greatly surpassed the King. Man has to die more than man, and goods have to be thrown away, and the current King of France is Philip I, the son of Henry I, who was only 8 years old when he ascended the throne. 8-year-old Philip I took the card in his father's hand and looked at it, Emma, all 3, 5, 6, no three pairs and no dragon, how to play this card? Where can the vassals respect a little fart child, and in the first few years of his term of office, he really wants the nest to open the door to the nest - the nest has arrived home.
Philip I had a tight hand for many years, it is estimated that even a love madman could not afford to buy, sometimes really poor and crazy, he stared at the Italian caravan passing by Peach Blossom Island, and did some home robbery, and the status of the King of France simply fell to the bottom.
As mentioned earlier, the Duke of Robert in Normandy helped Henry I take back the throne, and Henry I gave him Wixon, north of Paris, but he regretted it as soon as he turned around. Now that William had come to ask for debts, Philip I certainly did not agree. Disagree? Boom!
(Philip I)
William I vs Philip I, this power gap is too large, just like the boxing king Tyson vs kindergarten children, William first looted Wexon, and then all the way south, sword to Paris. It was the home of the King of France, and if Paris were taken, England and France would be united, and Philip I would hide under his bed and shiver. Capetian's life was hanging by a thread, and just as the neighbors around him were holding their breath, an accident occurred— William suddenly hung up.
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