Robert “le Fort”, marquis in Neustria
Marquis in Neustria
Count of Anjou
Count of Blois
Count of Auxerre and of Nevers
Count of Autun
Lay-abbot of Marmoutier
Lay-abbot of Saint-Martin de Tours
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 866.
Baldwin gives the date as possibly 15 September.
Place of Death: the Battle of Brissarthe.
Relationships
(probable) Father: Robert, count in Wormsgau.
This relationship is given by Baldwin and by Bouchard (p. 188). Settipani and Van Kerrebrouck (p. 399) consider the arguments for this relationship "definitive". It is accepted by Lewis (p. 7, p. 9).
(probable) Mother: Waldrade.
This relationship is given by Baldwin and by Le Jan (p. 440).
Spouse: unknown.
Baldwin discusses the conjectures.
Children:
Eudes (died 1 January 898), king of France, married Théodrade.
Robert I (died 15 June 923), king of France.
References
Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).
Baldwin, Stewart. “Robert "le Fort" (Rotbertus Fortis, Robert "the Strong")” in The Henry Project.
Bouchard, Constance Brittain. Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).
Le Jan, Régine. Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIe - Xe siècle): essai d’anthropologie sociale (Publications de la Sorbonne, 1995).
Lewis, Andrew W. Royal Succession in Capetian France: Studies on Familial Order and the State, (Harvard University Press, 1981).
Settipani, Christian (with Patrick Van Kerrebrouck). La préhistoire des Capétiens 481-987. Première Partie (Volume 1 of Nouvelle Histoire Généalogique de l’Auguste Maison de France, 1993).
Sirjean, Gaston. Encyclopédie généalogique des Maisons souveraines du Monde.
Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).