Editing Hugh Capet (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Odo & Hugh Capet.png|thumb|Posthumous [[effigy]] of Hugh and [[Odo of France|Odo]], destroyed during the [[French Revolution]].]]
Hugh Capet died on 24 October 996, and was interred in the [[Basilica of Saint-Denis]].<ref>The ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' ([https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hugh-Capet "Hugh Capet"]) gives his death as 14 October, but the [[obituary]] of Saint-Denis clearly records his death as 24 October. [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k59033/f444.item ''Obituaires de la province de Sens'' I], p. 343.</ref> His son [[Robert II of France|Robert]] continued to reign.

Most historians regard the beginnings of modern France as having initiated with the coronation of Hugh Capet.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} This is because, as [[Count of Paris]], he made the city his power centre. The monarch began a long process of exerting control of the rest of the country from there.

He is regarded as the founder of the [[Capetian dynasty]]. The direct Capetians, or the [[House of Capet]], ruled France from 987 to 1328; thereafter, the Kingdom was ruled by cadet branches of the dynasty. All French kings through [[Louis Philippe I|Louis Philippe]], and all royals since then, have belonged to the dynasty. Furthermore, cadet branches of the House continue to reign in Spain and [[Luxembourg]].

All monarchs of the Kingdom of France from Hugh Capet to [[Philip II of France]] were titled 'King of the Franks'. Documents during Philip II's reign began using the title 'King of France' as dawn of the intimate unification of medieval French population even though [[Latin]] was the main language.