Philip V of France

Philip V of France, known as Philip the Tall, ruled from 1316 to 1322 after the death of his nephew John I. His accession helped establish the exclusion of women from the French royal succession, a principle later used in Valois claims.

Philip V of France also held the offices or ranks of King of France, King of Navarre, and sovereign of Navarre. Philip V of France belonged to the Capetian dynasty. Philip V of France was born in Vincennes and died in Royal Abbey of Longchamp.

Maurice Druon’s The Poisoned Crown turns Louis's sudden death into the result of Mahaut's poisoning, a fictional resolution to a death whose historical cause is uncertain, and leaves France awaiting the birth of a possible king. In Maurice Druon’s The Royal Succession, the birth and rapid death of John I leave France without a male direct heir. Philip uses legal argument and control of the coronation to become Philip V, establishing the exclusion of women that later generations associate with Salic succession; the novel fictionalises the infant king's death as part of the wider conspiracy. Philip V of France is treated fictionally in Maurice Druon’s The Strangled Queen.