Philip V of France
King of France and Navarre (r. 1316-1322)
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He seized the crown over his infant nephew's body and shut out his niece with a legal move that would shape French succession for centuries — the rule that became Salic law, born not from ancient custom but from one man's successful grab.
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Philip V was the second son of Philip IV, granted Poitiers while his elder brother Louis X took the throne. When Louis died in 1316 leaving a daughter and a pregnant queen, Philip claimed the regency. The queen bore a son proclaimed John I, but the boy lived four days. Philip crowned himself immediately at Reims, then fought off the claim of Louis's daughter Joan — citing her youth, her mother's adultery scandal in the Tour de Nesle Affair, and a fresh ruling from the Estates General that women had no place in the line. The precedent held. As king he created an independent Court of Finances, s…
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