King Eudes FRANCE

   Another name for Eudes was FRANCE King.

   Ancestral File Number: 9G81-9R.

   General Notes:

King of FRANCE Reigned 887/888-898.

BOOKS
France A Modern History, Albert Guerard, 1959, Univ Michigan Press, p53:
"...Throughout the ninth century the incursions of the Northmen were increasing in fierceness and frequency. Their dragon boats boldly ascended the Seine and the Loire, spreding terror. In the hope of securing a strong leader, the lords of West Francia elected to the throne Charles the Fat of Germany, under whom the empire was united for the last time. Paris was valiantly defended by Count Odo (Eudes), the son of another vigorous fighter, Robert the Strong. When Charles the Fat appeared with an `immense' army, he simplybribed the invaders off with treasures and the spoils of Burgundy. Indignant at his cowardice, the French liegemen deposed him in 887 and elected in his stead the hero of Paris, Eudes. For a whole century the last Carolingians and the members of the new race occupied the throne, either alternately or in armed rivalry; at times the `Robertians' were satisfied with the title of `Dukes of the Franks', and a position akin to that of the mayors of the palace..."

The Wall Chart of WorldHistory, Edward Hull, 1988, Studio Editions, France 887: "Eudes, King of France 887-894/898..."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1985, Micropaedia, Vol II, p532, Capet: "Robert the Strong's two sons, usually styled Robertian rather than Capetian, were both crowned kings of the Franks: Eudes in 888, Robert I in 922..."
Vol III, p988, Eudes: "also Odo, Died 898, Count of Paris and (from 888) king of the West Frankish kingdom. His defense of Paris against the siege of the Northmen (885-886)gained him election as king, but his reign was marked byinsubordination, civil war, and continued raids by the Northmen."
Macropaedia, Vol VII, p614, France History of: "...with the death of Charles the Fat in 888, the West Frankish magnates elected as king Eudes son of Robert the Strong and the first of the Robertians to take the crown away from the Carolingian dynasty..."

The Story of Civilization, Will Durant, Vol IV, The Age of Faith, Bk IV, The Dark Ages, Ch XIX, The Decline of the West, Sec III, France, p475: "When the last Carolingian king Louis V died without issue (987), the nobles and prelates of France sought leadership in some other line than the Carolingian. They found it in the descendants of a marquess ofNeustria significantly named Robert the Strong (Died 866). The Odo who had saved Paris was his son..."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 9G81-9R.

   Marriage Information:

Eudes married Queen Theodoreda FRANCE about 881 in , , France. (Queen Theodoreda FRANCE was born about 860 in , , France.)