French rulers and kings

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The beginnings of France has its seeds in the seizure and consolidation of territory following the appearance and permanent settling of two divisions of Franks on the lower Rhine River in the middle of the 3rd century. The Ripuarian Franks (dwellers by the riverbank, ripa) settled in the tract between the Rhine and the Meuse River.

The two Frankish tribes fought with the Romans to establish their territory and the Salian Franks (dwellers by the sea, sal) would settle in Toxandria, a region between the Meuse River and the Scheldt River. The Salians did not form a single kingdom; besides the kingdom established at Tournai there were two other kingdoms with their centers at Cambrai and Tongres. Once peace with the Roman Emperor was achieved, the Toxandrians, unlike other Germanic peoples, did not migrate as a nation but instead began an expansion of their territory. Clodion, the first king of this dynasty known to recorded history, began his series of conquests in Northern Gaul around the year 430, penetrating as far south as Artois. However, it was the massive territorial gains of Clovis I seventy-five years later that created a kingdom, with its capital at Paris, stretching from the Rhine to the Pyrenees, closely resembling today’s France.

France's rulers and kings:

  • Sequence: Name of King, Date of birth & death, Lineage, dates for their reign:

THE OLD FRANKISH KINGDOM


KINGDOM IN FOUR PARTS


SECOND DIVISION OF THE KINGDOM


THE CAROLINGIANS


THE KINGDOM OF FRANCE


HOUSE OF VALOIS


HOUSE OF BOURBON

REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD

THE CONSULATE

THE EMPIRE

THE RESTORATION

HOUSE OF ORLEANS

THE SECOND REPUBLIC

THE SECOND EMPIRE


Regents of France:


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