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| | Robert II |
 | | For five years the king braved all anathemas, but about 1002 he gave up Bertha and married Constance, daughter of a certain Count William, an intriguing and ambitious woman, who made life miserable for her husband, while the court was disturbed by quarrels between the partisans of the two queens. |
 | | After Hugh's death the king procured the coronation of his second son, Henri, duke of Burgundy, afterwards king of France, a proceeding which displeased Constance, who wished her third son, Robert, afterwards duke of Burgundy, to receive the crown. |
 | | Pope Gregory V, whose favor Robert vainly sought to win by allowing Arnulf, the imprisoned archbishop, to return to his see of Reims and forcing Gerbert to flee to the court of the emperor Otto III, excommunicated the king, and a council at Rome imposed a seven years' penance upon him. |
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