House of Valois | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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House of Valois


00:01:02 1 Unexpected inheritance
00:03:53 2 Hundred Years' War
00:10:44 3 Centralization of power
00:13:12 4 Italian Wars
00:18:12 5 French Wars of Religion
00:22:09 6 Succession
00:22:49 7 List of Valois kings of France
00:23:00 7.1 Valois (direct)
00:23:46 7.2 Valois-Orléans
00:24:03 7.3 Valois-Angoulême
00:24:45 8 Valois king of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
00:25:01 9 Other significant titles held by the House of Valois
00:25:12 9.1 Counts and Dukes of Alençon
00:26:05 9.2 Counts and Dukes of Anjou
00:26:52 9.3 Dukes of Burgundy
00:27:29 9.3.1 Dukes of Brabant
00:27:55 9.3.2 Counts of Nevers
00:28:21 9.4 Dukes of Orléans
00:28:53 9.4.1 Counts of Angoulême
00:29:24 10 Illegitimate branches
00:29:50 11 Forms of address
00:30:13 12 See also



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SUMMARY
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The House of Valois (French pronunciation: ​[valwa]) was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. They succeeded the House of Capet (or "Direct Capetians") to the French throne, and were the royal house of France from 1328 to 1589. Junior members of the family founded cadet branches in Orléans, Anjou, Burgundy, and Alençon.
The Valois descended from Charles, Count of Valois (1270–1325), the second surviving son of King Philip III of France (reigned 1270–1285). Their title to the throne was based on a precedent in 1316 (later retroactively attributed to the Merovingian Salic law) which excluded females (Joan II of Navarre), as well as male descendants through the distaff line (Edward III of England), from the succession to the French throne.
After holding the throne for several centuries the Valois male line failed and the House of  Bourbon succeeded the Valois to the throne as the senior-surviving branch of the Capetian dynasty.