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Hugh the Great Duke of the Franks
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956
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Hugh the Great was the most powerful magnate in France, the maker and unmaker of kings, who declined the crown himself and left it for his son to take.
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HUGH THE GREAT, Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris (d.956); son of Robert I of France; m. Hedwig of Saxony; father of HUGH CAPET (I99767, our line). Direct ancestor.