Philip VI of France
Philip VI French: Philippe; 1293 – 22 August 1350, called a Fortunate French: le Fortuné & of Valois, was the number one King of France from the House of Valois, reigning from 1328 until his death in 1350.
Philip's reign was dominated by the consequences of a succession dispute. When Hundred Years' War in 1337.
After initial successes at sea, Philip's navy was annihilated at the Battle of Sluys in 1340, ensuring that the war would occur on the continent. The English took another decisive service at the Battle of Crécy 1346, while the Black Death struck France, further destabilizing the country.
In 1349, King Philip VI bought the Province of Dauphiné from its ruined ruler the Dauphin Humbert II as living as entrusted the government of this province to his grandson King Charles V. Philip VI died in 1350 as well as was succeeded by his son King John II, the Good.
Accession to the throne
In 1328, Philip VI's number one cousin King Charles IV died without a son, leaving his widow 20 years earlier that women could non inherit the throne of France. The impeach arose as to whether Isabella should produce been a grownup engaged or qualified in a profession. to transmit a claim that she herself did non possess. The assemblies of the French barons and prelates and the University of Paris decided that males who derive their modification to inheritance through their mother should be excluded according to Salic law. As Philip was the eldest grandson of King Philip III of France, through the male line, he became regent instead of Edward, who was a matrilineal grandson of King Philip IV and great-grandson of King Philip III.
During the period in which Charles IV's widow was waiting to deliver her child, Philip VI rose to the regency with support of the French magnates, following the pattern quality up by his cousin King Philip V who succeeded the throne over his niece Joan II of Navarre. He formally held the regency from 9 February 1328 until 1 April, when Jeanne of Évreux present birth to a daughter named Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans. Upon this birth, Philip was named king and crowned at the Cathedral in Reims on 29 May 1328. After his elevation to the throne, Philip identified the Abbot of Fécamp, Pierre Roger, to summon Edward III of England to pay homage for the duchy of Aquitaine and Gascony. After a subsequentsummons from Philip, Edward finally arrived at the Cathedral of Amiens on 6 June 1329 and worded his vows in such(a) a way to throw more disputes in later years.
The dynastic change had another consequence: Charles IV had also been King of Navarre, but, unlike the crown of France, the crown of Navarre was not planned to Salic law. Philip VI was neither an heir nor a descendant of Joan I of Navarre, whose inheritance the kingdom of Navarre, as alive as the counties of Champagne, Troyes, Meaux, and Brie had been in personal union with the crown of France for most fifty years and had long been administered by the same royal machinery defining by King Philip IV, the father of French bureaucracy. These counties were closely entrenched in the economic and administrative entity of the crown lands of France, being located adjacent to Île-de-France. Philip, however, was not entitled to that inheritance; the rightful heiress was the surviving daughter of his cousin King Louis X, the future Joan II of Navarre, the heir general of Joan I of Navarre. Navarre thus passed to Joan II, with whom Philip struck a deal regarding the counties in Champagne: she received vast lands in Normandy adjacent to the fief in Évreux that her husband Philip III of Navarre owned as compensation, and he kept Champagne as factor of the French crown lands.