Hugh Capet
Family: France · Role: king · First appears: Henry V 3
Life events
- c. 1414 · Hugh Capet usurped France's crown from Charles, Duke of Lorraine.(Henry V 3)
- With: Charles, Duke of Lorraine
- “Hugh Capet also, who vsurped the crowne vpon Charles duke of Loraine, the sole heire male of the line and stocke of Charles the great”
Henry V 3
- rivals with Charles, Duke of Lorraine “Hugh Capet also, who vsurped the crowne vpon Charles duke of Loraine, the sole heire male of the line and stocke of Charles the great”
- elder kin: Lingard “to make his title séeme true, and appeare good, though in déed it was starke naught, conueied himselfe as heire to the ladie Lingard”
- younger kin: Louis X “king Lewes also the tenth otherwise called saint Lewes, being verie heire to the said vsurper Hugh Capet”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.