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The kings used the title "King of the Franks" (Latin: Rex Francorum) until the late twelfth century; the first to adopt the title of "King of France" (Latin: Rex Franciae; French: roi de France) was Philip II in 1190 (r. 1180–1223), after which the title "King of the Franks" gradually lost ground. [3]
English claimants to the throne of France: Kings of England and later, of Great Britain (renounced by Hanoverian King George III upon union with Ireland) Jacobite claimants to the throne of France: senior heirs-general of King Edward III of England and thus his claim to the French throne, also claiming England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Joy Law, Fleur de lys: The kings and queens of France. ISBN 978-0-07-036695-4; Rene de La Croix, duc de Castries, The Lives of the Kings & Queens of France. ISBN 0-394-50734-7; Elsie Thornton-Cook, Royal Line of France: The Story of the Kings and Queens of France. ISBN 978-0-8369-0939-5
Treaty of The Hague: France and its allies signed a treaty with Spain, thus ending the War of the Quadruple Alliance. 1723: 15 February: Louis XV Became the new King of France. 1738: 18 November: Treaty of Vienna: The signing of the treaty ended the War of the Polish Succession. France gained the Duchy of Lorraine and Bar. 1744: 5–10 October
King of France r. 1498–1515: Joan 1464–1505 Duchess of Berry: Anne 1477–1514 Duchess of Brittany: Charles VIII 1470–1498 King of France r. 1483–1498: Francis 1472–1473 Duke of Berry: Henry II 1503–1555 King of Navarre: Marguerite de Navarre 1492–1549: Eleanor of Austria 1498–1558: Francis I 1494–1547 King of France r. 1515 ...
Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign.
The title "King of the Franks" is attested in the Kingdom of France until 1190, that of "Queen of the Franks" (for queen consorts) until 1227. That represented a shift in thinking about the monarchy from that of a popular monarchy , the leader of a people, sometimes without a defined territory to rule, to that of a monarchy tied to a specific ...
Larmuseau et al. (2013) [79] tested the Y-DNA of three living members of the House of Bourbon, one descending from Louis XIII of France via King Louis Philippe I, and two from Louis XIV via Philip V of Spain, and concluded that all three men share the same STR haplotype and belonged to haplogroup R1b (R-M343). The three individuals were further ...