Margaret of Burgundy

1290–1315

Margaret of Burgundy was queen consort of Louis X of France and one of the women implicated in the Tour de Nesle scandal. Her imprisonment and death became part of the dynastic crisis that destabilised the final Capetian succession.

In Maurice Druon’s The Strangled Queen, after Philip IV's death, Louis X inherits the throne while his imprisoned wife Margaret of Burgundy remains an obstacle to a new marriage and a secure succession. Maurice Druon’s The Iron King is set in 1314 Philip IV rules France through an increasingly centralised monarchy burdened by war and debt.

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The Accursed Kings in Order

by Maurice Druon 7 books 4.2

The Accursed Kings follows the French and English monarchies from the final year of Philip IV's reign in 1314 to the capture of John II at Poitiers and the political crisis of the late 1350s. Across seven novels, the direct Capetian line fails, the Valois dynasty takes the…

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