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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8277950, member: 110504&quot;]Uh-oh, now I&#039;m scared, because it has to be time to repost my god-awful one of Hugh the Great.&nbsp; ...Well, at least according to Legros (94), although Duplessy (<u>Feodales</u>, 6) still attributes it to Hugh Capet (king 987-996), but as &quot;Duc des Francs,&quot; 956 until his accession in 987.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461763[/ATTACH]</p><p>And, why not, here&#039;s my less ambiguous one of Hugh Capet, another episcopal coissue, this time with Herve, bishop of Beauvais 987-998.&nbsp; --Both of these were found on Delcampe, unattributed as the driven snow, or you wouldn&#039;t be seeing them here.&nbsp; (...Duplessy, <u>Royales</u> no. 1.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461770[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461771[/ATTACH]</p><p>Obv. (from 11 o&#039;clock: ) HERVEVS HVGO REX; Rev. (with degraded &#039;CAROLVS&#039; monogram, also from 11 o&#039;clock: ) BELVACVS CIVITAS.</p><p>...My one all-time go-to source for the history is Jean Dunbabin, <u>France In the Making: 843-1180</u>.&nbsp; It made it to two editions, of which I only have the first, but the second one mainly just expands the bibliography.&nbsp; Yep, there&#039;s other good stuff, even in English, but that one is still my all-time favorite.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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