[2] The marriage was stormy; Bertha's family opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk and customs.

"[4] In 1022, a trial accused clergy members of heresy, Constance's previous confessor Stephen included.

[5] At Constance's urging, her eldest son Hugh Magnus was crowned co-king alongside his father in 1017.

[8] The ailing Fulbert, bishop of Chartres told a colleague that he could attend the ceremony "if he traveled slowly to Reims—but he was too frightened of the queen to go at all".

[8] Constance encouraged her sons to rebel, and they began attacking and pillaging the towns and castles belonging to their father.

Her son Robert attacked Burgundy, the duchy he had been promised but had never received, and Henry seized Dreux.

Constance died after passing out following a coughing fit on 28 July 1032 and was buried beside her husband Robert at Saint-Denis Basilica.