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The title was first assumed in 1340 by Edward III of England, the Kingdom of England being ruled by the Plantagenet dynasty at the time. Edward III claimed the throne of France after the death of his uncle Charles IV of France. At the time of Charles IV's death in 1328, Edward was his nearest male relative through Edward's mother Isabella of ...
List of heirs to the French throne. Coat of arms of the Dauphin of France, a title used by the heir-apparent to the French throne from 1350 to 1791, and from 1824 to 1830. Heraldic crown of the Dauphin of France. The following is a list of the heirs to the throne of the Kingdom of France, that is, those who were legally next in line to assume ...
HeirStatusRelationship To MonarchBecame Heir(date)heir apparentson5 September 1187heir apparentson14 July 1223heir presumptivebrother8 November 1226heir apparentson25 February 1244- The Election of Hugh Capet
- The Succession in 1031
- The End of The "Capetian Miracle"
- The Succession in 1328
- The Hundred Years War
- The Succession in 1589
- The Bourbons in Spain
- The End of A Dynasty
- The House of Orléans
From 977 to 986, Hugh Capet, son of Hugh the Great, Duke of the Franks, allied himself with the German emperors Otto II and Otto III and with Archbishop Adalberon of Reims to dominate the Carolingian king, Lothair. By 986, he was king in all but name. After Lothair's son Louis Vdied in May 987, Adalberon and Gerbert of Aurillac convened an assembly...
Henry I became sole ruler on his father's death in 1031. The succession, however, was hotly contested by his younger brother Robert. Constance of Arles, Henry's mother, preferred to place her younger son, Robert, on the throne. She allied herself with one of the more powerful counts of the time, Odo II, Count of Blois. This alliance was particularl...
The Salic law (Lex Salica) is a code of law written around the time of Clovis I for the Salian Franks, in Latin mixed with Germanic words. It deals mainly with monetary compensations (wehrgeld) and also with civil law with respect to men and land. Clause 6 in title 59, which deals with inheritance rules for allodial lands (i.e. family lands not hel...
King Charles IV was no more. He had no male descendants. He was the youngest son of Philip the Fair. The situation in 1328 was unlike that of 1316. In 1316, a king's son was competing with a brother and a younger child. In 1328, Philip of Valois was not the closest in the line, or the more direct, because the last Capetians girls left now had husba...
The last royal election dated back to Louis VIII the Lion in 1223. The royal power was weakened and so was the legitimacy of the Count of Valois, for it was not as unassailable as that of his predecessors on the throne. They were expecting generous gifts and great concessions from the new king. Edward III came to pay tribute to the French king, hop...
The House of Valois had secured the principle of agnatic succession following their victory in the Hundred Years War. When the senior line of the Valois became extinct, they were followed by the Valois-Orléans line descended from Louis I, Duke of Orléans, younger brother of Charles VI, and then, by the Valois-Angoulême line descended from a younger...
Louis XIV, grandson of Henry IV, was the longest-reigning king in European history. Louis XIV had only one son to survive to adulthood, the Dauphin Louis. The Dauphin, in turn, had three sons: Louis, Duke of Burgundy, Philip, Duke of Anjou, and Charles, Duke of Berry. In 1700, Charles II of Spaindied. His heir, in accordance to cognatic primogenitu...
Louis XV had ten legitimate children, but there were only two sons, only one of whom survived to adulthood, Louis, Dauphin of France. This did not help dispel the concerns about the future of the dynasty; should his male line fail, the succession would be disputed by a possible war of succession between the descendants of Philip V and the House of ...
The House of Orléans took the throne in defiance of the principles of the Capetian dynasty, and could be viewed as a separate institution altogether. Upon his accession to the throne, Louis Philippe assumed the title of King of the French – a title already adopted by Louis XVI in the short-lived Constitution of 1791. Linking the monarchy to a peopl...
As in Britain, the French constitution before 1791 was based on custom. The laws of succession to the throne evolved over a very long period of time. The throne itself became hereditary during the 11th and 12th centuries. Succession was restricted to male line descent in the 14th century. The "statutory" theory of the succession to the throne ...
Detailed study of the events between the murder at Montereau shows that the essential terms of the treaty of Troyes – that Henry’s claim to the throne should be recognised and that the two kingdoms of England and France should have the same king once Henry or his heirs came to the French throne – were Henry’s, and were first announced to the royal council in Paris on 27 September.
(born 1755, ruled 1814–24). When the Bourbons returned to the throne of France in 1814, the younger brother of Louis XVI assumed the crown as Louis XVIII. The difficult task of reconstruction was before the king, but he seemed admirably adapted to meet the situation.
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May 19, 2024 · He and his descendants would go on to face several conflicts to gradually expand and transform a small kingdom into the nation of France. 987–996 Hugh Capet. 996–1031 Robert II (the Pious) 1031–1060 Henry I. 1060–1108 Philip I. 1108–1137 Louis VI (the Fat) 1137–1180 Louis VII (the Young) 1180–1223 Philip II Augustus.
