Philip I

Reigned for forty-eight years, longer than any French king before Louis XIV, but achieved comparatively little — the great events of his age, William's conquest of England and the First Crusade, passed him by. His scandalous repudiation of his wife to take Bertrade de Montfort earned him excommunication and barred him from joining the Crusade himself. He is the first French king buried at Fleury rather than Saint-Denis.