cxvi.,) the best memorials of the age, (Duchesne, Scriptores Hist.Franc.tom.iv.p.

530.)] [Footnote 75: In the beginning of the xith century, after naming the father and grandfather of Hugh Capet, the monk Glaber is obliged to add, cujus genus valde in-ante reperitur obscurum.

Yet we are assured that the great-grandfather of Hugh Capet was Robert the Strong count of Anjou, (A.D.

863--873,) a noble Frank of Neustria, Neustricus...
generosae stirpis, who was slain in the defence of his country against the Normans, dum patriae fines tuebatur.

Beyond Robert, all is conjecture or fable.