French monarchs family tree (simple)
This is a simplified family tree of all Frankish and French monarchs, from Chlodio to Napoleon III.
Family tree
- 1^ : Chilperic II might be a son of Childeric II
- 2^ : Childeric III is either the son of Chilperic II or of Theuderic IV
| Charles Martel Ruled as Mayor of the Palace | | | | | | | |
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| Pepin the Short | | | | | | | |
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| Carloman I | | Charlemagne | | | |
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| | | | | Louis I | | | |
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| | | | | Charles II | | Louis the German |
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| | | | | Louis II | | Charles the Fat |
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| Louis III | | Carloman II | | Charles III | | Odo | | Robert I |
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| | | | | | | | | Louis IV | | Hugh the Great | | Emma | | Rudolph |
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| | | | | | | | | Lothair | | Hugh I |
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| | | | | | | | | Louis V | | Robert II |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Henry I |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Philip I |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Louis VI |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Louis VII |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Philip II |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Louis VIII |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Louis IX |
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| | | | | | | | | Philip III | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Robert, Count of Clermont |
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| | | | | | Philip IV | | | | Charles, Count of Valois | | | | | | | | | | | | Louis I, Duke of Bourbon | |
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Louis X | | Philip V | | Charles IV | | Philip VI | | | | | | | | | | | | James I, Count of La Marche | |
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John I | | | | | | | | | | John II | | | | | | | | | | | | John I, Count of La Marche | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Charles V | | | | | | | | | | | | Louis, Count of Vendôme | |
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| | | | | | | | | | Charles VI | | Louis I de Valois, Duke of Orléans | | | | | | | | | | John VIII, Count of Vendôme | |
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| | | | | | | | | | Charles VII | | Charles, Duke of Orléans | | John, Count of Angoulême | | | | | | François de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme |
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| | | | | | | | | | Louis XI | | Louis XII | | Charles, Count of Angoulême | | | | | | Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme |
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| | | | | | | | | | Charles VIII | | | | | | Francis I | | | | | | Antoine of Navarre |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Henry II | | | | | | Henry IV |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Francis II | | Charles IX | | Henry III | | Louis XIII |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Louis XIV | | | | | | Philippe de France, Duke of Orléans |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Louis, Grand Dauphin | | | | | | Philippe II, Duke of Orléans |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy | | | | | | Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Louis XV | | | | | | Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Louis, Dauphin of France | | | | | | Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans |
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| Napoleon I | | Louis Bonaparte | | | | | | | Louis XVI | | Louis XVIII | | Charles X | | Louis Philippe I |
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| Napoleon II | | Napoleon III | | | | | | | Louis XVII | | Louis XIX (disputed) | | Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry |
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Pretenders
See also
Bibliography
- Edward James, The Origins of France: Clovis to the Capetians 500-1000. ISBN 0-333-27052-5.
- Edward James, The Franks. Blackwell: 1991. ISBN 0-631-17936-4.
- The history of France as recounted in the Grandes Chroniques de France, and particularly in the personal copy produced for King Charles V between 1370 and 1380 that is the saga of the three great dynasties, the Merovingians, Carolingians, and the Capetian Rulers of France, that shaped the institutions and the frontiers of the realm. It should be noted that this work was commissioned at a time that France was embroiled in the Hundred Years' War with England, a war fought over hereditary claims to the throne of France. It must therefore be read with a careful eye toward biases meant to justify the Capetian claims of continuity and inheritance.
- The Cambridge Illustrated History of France. Cambridge University Press.
- Paul Fouracre and Richard A. Gerberding, Late Merovingian France: History and Hagiography, 640–720. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-4791-9.
- Patrick Geary, Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World. Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1988. ISBN 0-19-504458-4.
- Patrick Geary, The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe. Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-691-11481-1.