Monarchs of France

9 monarchs and royal houses of France, listed alphabetically with title and reign.

King of the Franks crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III in Rome on Christmas Day 800. He united most of western Europe...

First Bourbon king, a Protestant who converted to Catholicism with the famous remark that Paris was worth a mass. The Edict of...

The dynasty founded by Henry IV, producing Louis XIV, the archetype of absolutism. Interrupted by the revolution and Napoleon...

Elected king after the last Carolingian died, founding the Capetian dynasty. His direct and cadet lines, Capet, Valois and...

Canonized within thirty years of his death, the only French king made a saint. He bought the crown of thorns and built the...

The Sun King, whose reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any monarch of a sovereign state that can be verified to the...

Well meaning but indecisive king whose support for the American revolution strained finances and brought France to bankruptcy...

The artillery officer of the revolution who became Emperor of the French in 1804. His civil code still shapes law across...

Transformed the French monarchy from a weak principality into the strongest power in western Europe. He took Normandy from King...