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John I of France

1316–1316

John I of France, known as John the Posthumous, was born after the death of his father Louis X and lived only a few days in 1316. His brief life created a succession crisis that helped define later French rules on female succession.

In Maurice Druon’s The Royal Succession, the birth and rapid death of John I leave France without a male direct heir.

Series

Series featuring John I of France (1 series)

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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