It was a constitutional innovation known as popular monarchy, which linked the monarch's title to the French people rather than to the possession of the territory of France.
The branches of the dynasty which ruled after 1328, however, are generally given the specific branch names of Valois (until 1589) and Bourbon (from 1589).ĭuring the brief period when the French Constitution of 1791 was in effect (1791–92) and after the July Revolution in 1830, the style of " King of the French" was used instead of "King of France (and Navarre)". The Capetians ruled continuously from 987 to 1792 and again from 1814 to 1848. The Capetian dynasty, the male-line descendants of Hugh Capet, included the first rulers to adopt the title of 'King of France' for the first time with Philip II (r. By this time the eastern and western parts of the land already had different languages and cultures. In August 843 the Treaty of Verdun divided the Frankish realm into three kingdoms, one of which ( Middle Francia) was short-lived the other two evolved into France (West Francia) and, eventually, Germany (East Francia). Adding the 7 emperors and kings after the French Revolution, this comes to a total of 52 monarchs of France.
Between the period from King Charles the Bald in 843 to King Louis XVI in 1792, France had 45 kings. The monarchs of the Kingdom of France ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of the West Franks in 843 until the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions. For Frankish kings, see List of Frankish kings.ĭivision of the Frankish Empire at the Treaty of Verdun in 843
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