[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.
It is a probable conjecture, that the third race descended
from the second by Childebrand, the brother of Charles
Martel. It is an absurd fable that the second was allied to
the first by the marriage of Ansbert, a Roman senator and
the ancestor of St. Arnoul, with Blitilde, a daughter of
Clotaire I. The Saxon origin of the house of France is an
ancient but incredible opinion. See a judicious memoir of
M. de Foncemagne, (Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions,
tom. xx. p. 548 - 579.) He had promised to declare his own
opinion in a second memoir, which has never appeared.]
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