His paternal family, the Robertians, were powerful landowners in the Île-de-France. Gerberga was the wife of Louis IV, King of France and mother of Lothair of France and Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine. Through his mother, Hugh was the nephew of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor Henry I, Duke of Bavaria Bruno the Great, Archbishop of Cologne and finally, Gerberga of Saxony, Queen of France. He was born into a well-connected and powerful family with many ties to the royal houses of France and Germany. The son of Hugh the Great, Duke of the Franks, and Hedwige of Saxony, daughter of the German king Henry the Fowler, Hugh was born sometime between 938 and 941. 8.1 Election contested by Charles of Lorraine.
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