Capetian

All figures

• Hugh Capet940 – 996
• Robert II972 – 1031
• Henry I1008 – 1060
• Philip I1052 – 1108
• Louis VI1081 – 1137
• Louis VII1120 – 1180
• Philip II Augustus1165 – 1223
• Louis VIII1187 – 1226
• Blanche of Castile1188 – 1252
• Louis IX1214 – 1270
• Margaret of Provence1221 – 1295
• Philip III1245 – 1285
• Philip IV the Fair1268 – 1314
• Louis X1289 – 1316
• Philip V1293 – 1322
• Charles IV1294 – 1328
• Isabella of France1295 – 1358
• John I1316 – 1316

Related events

• Marriage

  Marriage of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine

  1152· this dynasty: Eleanor's first husband's house

  Two months after Eleanor's annulment from Louis VII of France, she married Henry, Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou, in Poitiers on 18 May 1152. The match brought her vast duchy under Henry's control and, when he became king of England two years later, created the Angevin Empire — a French king's vassal who now controlled more of France than the king himself.

  Also involved: Plantagenet

• Conflict

  Battle of Bouvines

  1214· this dynasty: victor

  The decisive battle of medieval France. On 27 July 1214 Philip II Augustus crushed a coalition of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV, Count Ferdinand of Flanders, and the English under John, ending the Plantagenet attempt to recover the continental holdings John had lost a decade earlier. Bouvines confirmed France as the dominant power of Latin Europe and broke John's standing at home — the Magna Carta crisis followed within a year.

  Also involved: Plantagenet (defeated)

• Conflict

  Battle of Crécy

  1346· this dynasty: defeated (under Valois cadet branch)

  On 26 August 1346, Edward III's English army of roughly twelve thousand destroyed a French force perhaps three times its size at Crécy in Ponthieu. The Welsh and English longbowmen broke wave after wave of French knightly charges; the sixteen-year-old Black Prince commanded the vanguard. The battle announced English military supremacy of the early Hundred Years' War and dethroned the heavily armored knight as Europe's dominant battlefield weapon.

  Also involved: Plantagenet (victor)

• Conflict

  Battle of Agincourt

  1415· this dynasty: defeated (under Valois)

  On 25 October 1415, Henry V's exhausted and outnumbered English army won the most lopsided victory of the Hundred Years' War. Trapped between the woods of Agincourt and the marshy Tramecourt valley, the heavily armored French knights bogged in mud while English longbow arrows fell among them at a thousand-volley-per-minute rate. Casualty estimates vary wildly but the French lost much of their nobility; the English lost perhaps a hundred dead.

  Also involved: Plantagenet (victor)

See also