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=== Robertian dynasty (888β898) === {{Main|Robertians}} {| width=98% class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" ! width="5%" |Portrait ! width="15%" |Name ! width="24%" |Reign ! width="22%" |Succession ! width="24%" |Life details |- | [[File:Denier de Blois sous Eudes de France.jpg|110px]] | [[Odo of France|'''Odo''']]<br/><small>''Eudes'' or ''Odon''</small> | 29 February 888{{Efn-lr|Odo was crowned on 29 February 888 and then again on 13 November.{{sfn|Jackson|1995|loc=Vol 1, pp. 133β138}}}} β 3 January 898<br/><small>({{Age in years, months and days|888|2|29|898|1|13}})</small> | Son of [[Robert the Strong]]; elected king by the French nobles following the deposition of Charles. Initially rivaled by [[Guy III of Spoleto]] and [[Ranulf II of Aquitaine]] | {{Circa}} 858 β 3 January 898{{efn|Odo's death is universally given as 1 January, as given by a late 13th century chronicle,<ref>[https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_15_2/#page/1292/mode/1up ''Annales S. Benigni Divionensis'' 899.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329212909/https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_15_2/#page/1292/mode/1up |date=29 March 2022 }} [[Monumenta Germaniae Historica|MGH]] '''V''', 40.</ref> but the earliest source on the matter, from the early 11th century, records his death as 3 January.<ref>[https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_15_2/#page/1292/mode/1up ''Annales Prumienses'' 898.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329212909/https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_15_2/#page/1292/mode/1up |date=29 March 2022 }} [[Monumenta Germaniae Historica|MGH]] '''XV'''(2), 1292.</ref> Another source, from the 13th century, records his death as 2 January.<ref>''[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k59033/f466.item Obituaires de la province de Sens] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006014533/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k59033/f466.item |date=6 October 2022 }}'' I, p. 343.</ref>}}<br /><small>(aged approx. 40)</small><hr />Defended Paris from the [[Vikings]]; died of natural causes{{Sfnm|1a1=Peignot|1p=lix|2a1=de Wailly|2p=10|3a1=McCarty|3p=329|4a1=''EB''|4loc=[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eudes-king-of-Franks Eudes]}} |}
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