Royal French Roots (Fuller/Bean)

Building on the assumption that one branch of Arthur Fuller's ancestors were the Beans (who are proven to be linked to Scottish royals), we now go to the proven links from there to French royalty:

 

DAGOBERT I OF THE FRANKS

(602-638)

Dagobert I ruled Austrasia (later part of the Frankish Empire) from 623-634. One of his descendants married Charles Martel, who was nicknamed “The Hammer”. King Charles ruled Francia as “Duke and Prince of the Franks” from 737-741. He was described as a brilliant general and effective expellor of Arab forces that kept invading. Charles was a descendant of King Pepin I (who was also the father of Charlemagne).

 

 

KING HENRI I OF FRANCE

 

Henri I was Uncle-In-Law to William the Conqueror. Henri feared William’s power, and tried to seize Normandy from him twice, to no avail. Henri I married Anne of Kiev.

 

Henri’s father was King Robert II, his predecessor, whose father was King Hugh.

 

KING HUGH CAPET OF FRANCE

(939-996)

King Hugh’s father was Duke Hugh the Great, and Duke Hugh's father was King Robert I, who, at the time was ruler of what was then called “Western Francia”. Robert’s father, Robert the Strong, was Marquis of the land when it was called “Neustria”. He was killed by Vikings.

 

• French Count Hugh X of Lusignan, (1183-1249) succeeded his father Hugh IX as Seigneur de Lusignan and Count of La Marche in November, 1219 and was Count of Angoulême by marriage. It is unclear whether it was Hugh IX or Hugh X who was betrothed to Isabella of Angoulême when, in 1200, King John of England took her for his Queen, an action which resulted in the entire de Lusignan family rebelling against the English king.

 

• Count Thomas of Savoy abducted the future wife of King Philip II of France, and married her himself, and they had 14 children, the oldest being the future Count, and an ancestor of Arthur Fuller.

In addition, Arthur Fuller was the son of Sarah Osborn-Fuller, and her Osborn line was descended from, among other things, the Lusignan Dynasty, the notorious barons of western France.

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