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Reign of Charles IV of France

1322–1328 CE

Charles IV succeeded his brother Philip V and inherited disputes over royal finance, Flanders and the English king's French lands. Conflict over Saint-Sardos led to war in Gascony.

Charles died without a surviving son. The resulting succession dispute placed Philip of Valois against the claim advanced through Isabella of France for her son Edward III.

The She-Wolf and The Lily and the Lion connect Charles's reign to the fall of Edward II in England and to the replacement of the direct Capetians by the Valois dynasty.

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Charles IV of France1294–1328 Edward III of England1312–1377 Edward II of England1284–1327 Hugh Despenser the Younger1286–1326 Isabella of France1295–1358 Mahaut, Countess of Artois1269–1329 Philip VI of France1293–1350 Robert III of Artois1287–1342 Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March1287–1330

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