Word: capetian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned a few pages, as she was tired of the one she had been on, and went on reading: "Hugh Capet in 987 A.D. founded the royal house of France and began the line of kings who were to unite that country into a great nation. The secret of Capetian success was the fact that for hundreds of years the royal line never failed to bring forth a ruler. Every king was able to propagate his kind...
WILLIAM, otherwise the Bastard of Failaise, sat in his ducal castle at Rouen and meditated on the weakness and perfidy of kings. He was fully as strong as his Capetian overlord on the East, and he had put that monarch firmly in his place on several occasions, taking bits of disputed territory to prove it. But fendal law was still in the eleventh century: William never thought of aspiring to the crown of France. His ambition lay in another direction...
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