Philippe VI of France

Philippe VI of France , known as Philippe de Valois or the “found king”, (1293 - August 22nd 1350 with Nogent-the-King, Eure-et-Loir), is king de France of 1328 with 1350, first of the connects known as of Valois of the dynasty capétienne.

Accession with the throne

See also: Succession of Charles IV Beautiful the

He is the oldest son of Charles de Valois, the younger brother of Philippe Beautiful the, and thus cousin of the three wire of this last (Louis X, Philippe V and Charles IV) which follow one another on the throne of France between 1314 and 1328.

With died of his/her first cousin Charles Beautiful the, in 1328, and in the absence of male heir surviving, it is recognized king de France. This succession, disputed by the king of England Edouard III, itself grandson of Philippe IV Beautiful the by his/her mother Isabelle, is the leading cause of the Guerre One hundred Year old.

Sunday May 29th 1328, Philippe de Valois is crowned with Rheims by the archbishop Guillaume de Trie. The Duke of Aquitaine, Even Edouard III, however of France, does not attend the ceremony.

Not being itself downward and heir to the Kings de Navarre, like were its predecessors, Philippe VI restores the Royaume of Navarre to its heiress legitimates Jeanne II (1311 - 1349), girl of Louis X, in exchange of its renunciation of the crown of France.

Reign

Philippe VI wants to recover the duchy of Guyenne, which territorialement forms part of the kingdom of France, but which is a possession of king d' Angleterre. Edouard III asserts the crown of France what starts the Guerre One hundred Year old.

The king of France confiscates Guyenne then and sets up a maritime strategy of Blocus to make fold Edouard III: England is very dependant on the trade of the wines of the south of France, the salt imports of Brittany and Poitou and of wool exports towards the Flandres. The French and their mercenaries génois lose the maritime control with the Bataille of the Lock in 1340.

After the death of the duke Jean III of Brittany in April 1341, a successional conflict opposes Jean de Montfort to Charles of Blois for the succession of Brittany. Philippe VI referee in favor of his nephew, Charles of Blois. Jean de Montfort is combined to the English who unload in Brest in 1342 and occupy is of Brittany, it until 1397.

The English being done threatening, Philippe push the king David II of Scotland to invade England by north, theoretically little defended since Edouard prepares in the south the invasion of France. David II is beaten with Neville' S Cross in October 1346.

Edouard III unloads on the continent in 1346. Its army is numerically much lower than that of Philippe VI who can count on his powerful knighthood. The king of England chooses the strategy of plundering which characterizes the English rides. Philippe VI continues it and catches up with it with Crécy-in-Ponthieu. The frontal loads of the knighthood Frenchwomen are disaggregated by the rains of arrows stripped by the Welsh archers sheltered behind a curtain of piles, the horses not being protected. The Bataille of Crécy is a crushing English victory which makes waver the credibility of the French nobility, this one being supposed to justify the divine origin of its capacity by heroic victories gained at the time of frontal body-with-bodies.

After his victory with Crécy, Edouard III besieges Calais. Philippe does not dare any more to face it directly and gives up the city which falls the August 3rd 1347.

The end of the reign of Philippe VI is marked by the beginnings of the epidemic of Black Death, which involves a long truce. It signs in 1349 the treated Novels, by which Humbert II of the Viennese sells the Dauphiné in France. Philippe however leaves a kingdom durably disorganized, entered a phase of revolts which will turn to the civil war with the Grande Jacquerie of the year 1358.

Heirs

In July 1313, Philippe de Valois marries in first weddings Jeanne of Burgundy (v. 1293 - 1348), girl of Robert II (1248 - 1306), duke of Burgundy (1272 - 1306) and titular king of Thessalonique, and Agnès of France, (1260 - 1325). Of this union eight children come:

Become widowed of Jeanne of Burgundy deceased on September 12th, 1348, the king marries with Brie-Count-Robert in second weddings, the 19 or January 29th 1349 (according to the sources), Blanche of Navarre (v. 1333 - 1398), known as Blanche of Évreux, girl of Philippe III (1301 - 1343), count d' Évreux (1319 - 1343) and king de Navarre with title “consort”, and of Jeanne II (1311 - 1349), queen of Navarre (1328 - 1349) and Champagne countess. Of this union is resulting a posthumous child:

  • Jeanne known as White (1351 - 1371), which dies little of time after its engagement to Jean I {{er}} (1350 - 1395), duke of Gérone, king d' Aragon (1387 - 1395) and king de Valence.

External bonds

  • Genealogy of Philippe VI

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