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Eudes I
? , v. 860 - Fère, 898
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(or Eude). Count de Paris and of Troyes, then king of the Francs (888-898).

Son and successor of Robert the Fort, ancestor of the future royal dynasty of Capétiens, it was illustrated in the defense of Paris against the Norman ones and was elected as king into 888 by the large ones of the kingdom to replace the Carolingian Charles the Large one, after the deposition of this one.

After being itself removed from Norman, it had, from 893, to defend its crown against Charles the Simple one, other going down from Charlemagne, which it indicated, while dying, like its successor.



 
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