Louis X of France

Louis inherited Navarre at fifteen and France at twenty-four, in 1314. His father's fiscal reforms had angered the nobility, and Louis spent his brief reign navigating their resistance while pushing emancipation for serfs and reversing the expulsion of Jews. In 1314 his first wife Margaret was convicted of infidelity in the Tour de Nesle affair and imprisoned; she died in custody the next year. Louis remarried quickly — Clémence of Hungary — but died himself in June 1316, weeks before his son was born. The infant, proclaimed John I, survived only five days, and the crown passed to Louis' broth…