Louis V

Last Carolingian king of West Francia. Reigned alone for just over a year before dying childless in a hunting accident at twenty. The assembled magnates, led by Archbishop Adalbero of Reims, passed over Louis's uncle Charles of Lorraine and elected the Robertian Duke Hugh Capet king instead — ending two and a half centuries of Carolingian rule and inaugurating the Capetian line that would hold the French throne for the next eight hundred years.