Word: capetians
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...Emperors named Napoleon, 14 Presidents of the Third Republic (none now living), Vichy's Marshal Petain, and a string of kings ranging in power from the glorious days of Louis XIV, the Roi Soleil, to the hunted 10th century time of Hugh Capet, the founder of the Capetian line, who scarcely dared stir out of Paris for fear of being trounced by the powerful Count of Flanders and the proud Duke of Normandy...
...astute and eloquent book that merits shelfroom with Adams' famed Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. But while Adams sought out only the major thread of medieval unity, Author Temko weaves a tapestry of multiplicity-within-unity. Along with the rising cathedral walls, he traces the rise of the Capetian monarchs to rule Paris, the rise of Paris to rule France, the rise of French Gothic to rule an age. "The Church clothes her stones in gold and leaves her sons naked," chided St. Bernard of Clairvaux. But in their devotion to Mary, the medieval sons of Paris were content...
...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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