Hugh Magnus

Hugo Magnus (* 1007, † September 25, 1025 ) was a King of West Francia / France from the House of Capet. He was a son of King Robert II the Pious and Constance of Provence.

Its Latin epithet Magnus is no indication of (political ) " size ", but was cognomen as a part of its name. He is, therefore, not with his great-grandfather, the dux Hugo Magnus to be confused, whose cognomen is in the literature actually often translated as "the Great". In distinction to his grandfather, King Hugh Capet, he is now sometimes referred to as Hugh II, although the practice of numbering was used only for alleinherrschende kings in the later onset of French historiography.

As the eldest son of King Hugo was crowned during the lifetime of his father on June 9, 1017 the age of ten in the abbey church of Saint- Corneille of Compiègne king. Robert II made ​​use of so that the same practice to dynastic rule assurance like his father Hugh Capet, because a permanent continuity of the Capetians on the French throne was far from assured at that time. As "Junior King " was Hugo in the actual government of the country, although behind his father back, but he would be automatically moved up when her father died in the position of the autocrat, without the need for another coronation, or even an agreement of the French Great would have been required. Apparently, however, claimed Hugo participation in the government and rebelled against his father. However, he died at the age of eighteen and was buried at the place of his coronation.

1027 was Robert II 's second son, Henry I, also crown to his co-regent, who could compete in 1031, the autocracy.