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Philippe Égalité
- Philippe Égalité (as he became known in 1792; see details here) was elected to the National Convention in September 1792, voted to abolish the monarchy, sat in judgment of Louis XVI, voted to find him guilty and voted the death penalty.
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France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions. Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I, king of the Franks (r. 507–511), as the first king of France.
Overview. 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.
- 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...
The french crown (509 - 24 August 1838) was a number of titles of the crown of France. Before the kingdom of France was the kingdom of the Franks ruled by Clovis I . Clovis was the first king of the Franks .
Sep 2, 2024 · Pepin’s coronation as king marked the end of Merovingian rule and the start of Carolingian dominance. His son, Charlemagne, became one of the most famous Carolingian rulers. The Carolingian dynasty continued to rule until the late 10th century, although their power waned over time due to internal conflicts and external pressures.
Mar 13, 2024 · The first King of France was Hugh Capet, who ascended to the throne in 987 AD. Who was the longest-reigning King of France? Louis XIV, also known as the Sun King, holds the record for the longest reign, ruling for 72 years and 110 days from 1643 to 1715.
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The first English monarch to completely rule France for majority of his reign. Henry VI was made to be successor of French king Charles VI and on October 21st 1422 took up the position of the French king.
