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This category includes all the claimants to the French throne, either as rival claimants during the time that France was still a monarchy, or claimants for the restoration of the monarchy. during the monarchy as rival claimants to the reigning monarch: pretenders to the throne of the kingdom of France. of the royal line (kings of England) (1340 ...
The kings used the title "King of the Franks" (Latin: Rex Francorum) until the late twelfth century; the first to adopt the title of "King of France" (Latin: Rex Franciae; French: roi de France) was Philip II in 1190 (r. 1180–1223), after which the title "King of the Franks" gradually lost ground. [3]
According to the French Legitimists, Louis Alphonse is the rightful claimant to the defunct throne of France, under the name Louis XX. [6] His claim is based on his descent from Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715) through his grandson Philip V of Spain. Philip renounced his claim to the French throne under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
The heir to the throne, according to them, is the Orléans line, since not one of Philip V's descendants was French when the succession opened in 1883. In the Treaty of Utrecht, Philip V of Spain renounced his right of succession to the French throne on the condition that the semi-Salic law of succession should be instituted in Spain.
The first English claim to the French throne was made by the Plantagenet king, Edward III. [14] In 1328 Charles IV of France died, leaving no children except a daughter, born posthumously. [15] The successions to the French throne in 1316 and 1322 had, by this time, set the clear precedent that a woman could not succeed to the crown. [16]
The French and Spanish claims separated again at Alfonso's death as his eldest surviving son Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia renounced his claim to the Spanish throne due to physical disability and some years later asserted a claim to the French succession based on Legitimist principles. The present French Legitimist claimant descends from Jaime ...
Victor, Prince Napoléon, titular 3rd Prince of Montfort (Napoléon Victor Jérôme Frédéric Bonaparte; 18 July 1862 – 3 May 1926), was the Bonapartist pretender to the French throne from 1879 until his death in 1926. He was known as Napoléon V by those who supported his claim.
Upon the death of his father on 8 September 1894, Philippe became the Orléanist claimant to the defunct French throne. [1] He was known to monarchists as Philippe VIII. [1] He was an active claimant, regularly issuing manifestos. In October 1895, Philippe was named as co-respondent in the divorce case of Woolston v. Woolston. [10]