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Members of the French Royal Families

This is a list of non-ruling members of the French royal family. It includes royal consorts, children, and some grandchildren, as well as more recent members of the French Royal House.

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Hugh Capet of France (c. 939-996, r. 987-996)

  • Father: Hugh the Great, Duke of France (c.895-956)
  • Mother: Hedwig of Saxony (c.910-965)
  • Wife: Adelaide of Aquitaine (c.950-1006)
  • Children:
    • Adwige (c.969-c. 1013), m.1 Count Rainier IV of Hainaut (c.950-1013); m.2 Hugh III of Dasbourg
    • Gisele, Dame d'Abevile (c.970-c.1000), m. Hugues de Montreuil, Comte de Ponthieu
    • Robert II of France (972-1031)
    • Adelaide (c.973-c.1063)

Robert II of France (972-1031, r.996-1031)

  • Wives:
    • Rozala of Ivrea (d.1003)
    • Bertha of Blois (d. aft. 1017)
    • Constance of Provence (986-1032)
  • Children:
    • Adele, Comtesse d'Auxerre (c.1003-c.1063), m. Count Reynald I of Nevers
    • Hugh, Co-King of France (1007-1026)
    • Henry I of France (1008-1060)
    • Adelaide, Comtesse de Coutance (1009-1079); m.1 Duke Richard III of Normandy; m.2 Count Baldwin V of Flanders
    • Constance (b.aft 1009); m. Manasses de Dammartin
    • Duke Robert I of Burgundy[?] (1011-1072), m.1 Helie de Semur-en-Brionnais; m.2 Ermengarde of Anjou
    • Eudes (1013-1056)

Henry I of France (1008-1060, r.1031-1060)

  • Wives
    • Matilda of Germany (d.1034)
    • Matilda of Frisia (d.1044)
    • Anna of Kiev (1024-1076)
  • Children
    • Philip I of France (1052-1108)
    • Emma (b.1054)
    • Robert (1055-1060)
    • Hugh the Great, Count of Vermandois (1057-1101); m. Countess Adelaide of Vermandois

Philip I of France (1052-1108, r.1060-1108)

  • Wives
    • Bertha of Holland (1054-1094)
    • Bertrada de Montfort (d.1117)
  • Children

Louis VI of France (1077-1137, r.1108-1137)

  • Wives
    • Lucienne de Rochefort (1088-1137)
    • Adelaide of Savoy (1092-1154)
  • Children
    • Isabelle (1105-1175), m. Guillaume de Vermandois, Seigneur de Chaumont
    • Philip (1116-1131)
    • Louis VII of France (1120-1180)
    • Henry, Archbishop of Rheims (1121-1176)
    • Hugh (1123-1123)
    • Robert I, Count of Dreux (1123-1188), m.1 Agnes de Garlande; m.2 Havisa d'Evreux; m.3 Agnes de Beaumont, Comtesse de Braine
    • Constance (1124-1176); m.1 Count Eustace IV of Boulogne (son of King Stephen of England; m.2 Count Raymond V of Toulouse
    • Philip, Archbishop of Paris (1125-1161)
    • Peter I, Siegneur de Courtenay (1126-1179); m. Elisabeth de Courtenay

Louis VII of France (1120-1180, r.1137-1180)

Philip II of France (1165-1223, r.1180-1223)

  • Wives:
    • Isabella of Hainault (1170-1190)
    • Ingeborg of Denmark (1175-1236)
    • Agnes of Meran (1175-1201)
  • Children:
    • Louis VIII of France (1187-1226)
    • Marie (1198-1223); m.1 Margrave Philip I of Namur; m.2 Duke Henry I of Brabant
    • Tristan Hurupel, Count of Clermont (1200-1234); m. Matilda of Dammartin

Louis VIII of France (1187-1226, r.1223-1226)

  • Wife: Blanche of Castile (1188-1252)
  • Children:
    • Philip (1209-1218)
    • Louis IX of France (1215-1270)
    • Count Robert I of Artois[?] (1216-1250); m. Matilda of Brabant
    • Philip (1218-1220)
    • John, Count of Anjou and Maine (1219-1232)
    • Alphonse, Count of Poitou and Toulouse (1220-1271); m. Countess Jeanne of Toulouse
    • Dagobert (1222-1232)
    • Isabelle, Abbess of Longchamp (1224-1269)
    • Stephen (b.1225)
    • [[Charles I of Sicily|Charles I of Anjou], King of Sicily (1226-1285); m.1 Beatrice of Provence; m.2 Margaret of Burgundy

Louis IX of France (1215-1270, r.1226-1270)

  • Wife: Margaret of Provence[?] (1221-1295)
  • Children:
    • Blanche (1240-1243)
    • Isabella (1242-1271); m. King Theobald II of Navarre[?]
    • Louis (1243-1259)
    • Philip III of France (1245-1285)
    • John (1247-1248)
    • John-Tristan, Count of Valois (1250-1270); m. Yolanda of Nevers
    • Peter, Count of Alençon (1251-1284); m. Jeanne of Chatillon
    • Blanche (1253-1320); m. Fernando de la Cerda, Infant of Castile
    • Margaret (1255-1271); m. Duke John I of Brabant
    • Robert, Count of Clermont (1256-1318); m. Beatrice de Bourbon; founder of the House of Bourbon
    • Agnes (1260-1327); m. Duke Robert II of Burgundy

Philip III of France (1245-1285, r.1270-1285)

Philip IV of France (1268-1314, r.1285-1314)

Louis X of France (1289-1316, r.1314-1316)

  • Wives:
    • Marguerite of Burgundy (ca.1290-1315)
    • Clemence of Hungary (1293-1328)
  • Children:

Philip V of France (1291-1322, r.1316-1322)

  • Wife: Countess Jeanne I of Artois (1291-1329)
  • Children:
    • Countess Jeanne II of Artois (1308-1347); m. Dukes Eudes IV of Burgundy
    • Countess Marguerite of Artois (1310-1382); m. Count Louis I of Flanders
    • Isabelle (1312-1348); m.1 Dauphin Guigue VIII of Viennois; m.2 Baron Jean III de Faucogny
    • Philip (1313-1321)
    • Blanche (1314-1358)
    • Louis (1315-1316)

Charles IV of France (1295-1328, r.1322-1328)

  • Wives:
    • Blanche of Burgundy (1296-1326)
    • Marie of Luxembourg (1305-1324)
    • Jeanne of Evreux (1310-1371)
  • Children:
    • Philip (1314-1322)
    • Jeanne (1315-1321)
    • Louis (1324-1324)
    • Jeanne (1326-1327)
    • Marie (1327-1341)
    • Countess Blanche of Beaumont (1328-1392); m. Duke Philippe of Orleans

Philip VI of France (1293-1350, r.1328-1350)

  • son of Charles of Valois[?] by his first wife, first ruler of the House of Valois
  • Wives:
    • Jeanne of Burgundy (1294-1348)
    • Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398)
  • Children:

    • Marie (1326-1333); m. John of Brabant, Duke of Limburg
    • Louis (1328-1328)
    • Louis (1330-1330)
    • John (1332-1333)
    • Duke Philip of Orleans (1336-1375); m. Countess Blanche of Beaumont
    • Jeanne (1351-1371); m. John of Aragon, Duke of Gironda

John II of France (1319-1364, r.1350-1364)

Charles V of France (1337-1380, r.1364-1380)

    • Isabella (1373-1378)
    • Catherine (1378-1388); m. Jean de Berry, Comte de Montpensier (son of Duke Jean of Berry)

Charles VI of France (1368-1422, r.1380-1422)

Charles VII of France (1403-1461, r.1422-1461)

  • Wife: Marie of Anjou (1404-1463)
  • Children:
    • Louis XI of France (1423-1483)
    • Radegonde (1425-1444)
    • John (b.1426)
    • Catherine (1428-1446); m. Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy
    • Jacques (1432-1437)
    • Yolande (1434-1478); m. Duke Amadeus IX of Savoy
    • Jeanne (1435-1482); m. Duke Jean II of Bourbon[?]
    • Philip, Duke of Normandie (1436-1436)
    • Marguerite (1437-1438)
    • Jeanne (1438-1446)
    • Marie (1438-1439)
    • Marie (b.1441)
    • Madeleine (1443-1495); m. Gaston of Foix, Prince of Viana

    • Charles, Duke of Berry and Normandy (1446-1472)
  • some of his illegitimate children by Agnes Sorel[?]
    • Charlotte de Valois (1434-1477), m. Jacques de Brézé, Comte de Maulevrier
    • Marie Marguerite de Valois (1436-1473); m. Olivier de Coetivy, Comte de Taillebourg
    • Jeanne de Valois (b.1439); m. Antoine de Bueil, Comte de Sancerre

Louis XI of France (1423-1483, r.1461-1483)

Charles VIII of France (1470-1498, r.1483-1498)

  • Wife: Duchess Anne of Brittany[?]
  • Children:
    • Charles-Orland, Dauphin of Viennois (1492-1495)
    • Charles, Dauphin of Viennois (1496-1496)
    • Francis, Dauphin of Viennois (1497-1498)
    • Anne (1498-1498)

==Louis XII of France (1462-1515, r.1498-1515)

Francis I of France (1494-1547, r.1515-1547)

Henry II of France (1519-1559, r.1547-1559)

Francis II of France (1544-1560, r.1559-1560)

Charles IX of France (1550-1574, r.1560-1574)

  • Wife: Elisabeth of Austria (1554-1592)
  • Children:
    • Marie Elisabeth (1572-1578)
  • Illegitimate Child by Marie Touchet[?], his Huguenot mistress
    • Charles, Duc d'Angouleme (1573-1650); m. Charlotte de Montmorency

Henry III of France (1551-1589, r.1574-1589)

Henry IV of France (1553-1610, r.1589-1610)

Louis XIII of France (1601-1643, r.1610-1643)

Louis XIV of France (1638-1715, r.1643-1715)

  • Wives:
  • Children and Agnatic Grandchildren:
    • Louis, Dauphin of Viennois (1661-1711), m.1 Marie Anne of Bavaria (1660-1690); m.2 (secretly) Sophie de Joly de Choin (1670-1732)
      • Louis, Duke of Burgundy, Dauphin of Viennois (1682-1712), m.Marie Adelaide of Savoy (1685-1712)
      • Philip, Duke of Anjou (1683-1746), later King Philip V of Spain, ancestor of the Spanish, Neapolitan, and Parmese Bourbon lines
      • Charles, Duke of Berry (1686-1714), m. Marie-Louise of Orleans, daughter of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans[?]
    • Anne Elisabeth (1662-1662)
    • Marie Anne (1664-1664)
    • Marie Therese (1667-1672)
    • Philippe Charles, Duke of Anjou (1668-1671)
    • Louis François, Duke of Anjou (1672-1672)
  • illegitimate children
    • by Louise-Françoise de la Vallière (1644-1710)
      • Marie-Anne de Bourbon, Mlle de Blois (1666-1739), m. Louis-Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1661-1685)
      • Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Vermandois (1667-1683)
    • by Françoise-Athénaïse, Marquise de Montspan (1641-1707)
      • Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Duc du Maine[?] (1670-1736), m. Anne-Louise-Benedictine de Bourbon-Condé
      • Louis-César de Bourbon, Comte de Vexin (1672-1683)
      • Louise Françoise de Bourbon (1673-1743), m. Louis III de Bourbon-Condé, Duke of Bourbon
      • Françoise Marie de Bourbon (1677-1749), m. Duke Philippe II of Orleans
      • Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (1678-1737)

Louis XV of France (1710-1774, r.1715-1774)

  • son of Louis, Duke of Burgundy, Louis XIV's eldest grandson
  • Wife: Princess Maria Leszczynszka[?] of Poland (1703-1768)
  • Children and Agnatic Grandchildren:
    • Anne-Henriette (1727-1752)
    • Louise-Elisabeth (1727-1759), m. Duke Philip of Parma[?]
    • Marie-Louise (1728-1733)
    • Louis, Dauphin of Viennois (1729-1765), m.2 Infanta Maria Teresa of Spain (1726-1746); m.2 Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1731-1767)
    • Philippe, Duke of Anjou (1730-1733)
    • Marie-Adelaide (1732-1800)
    • Victoire (1733-1799)
    • Sophie-Philippine (1734-1782)
    • Therese-Felicité (1736-1744)
    • Louise Marie (1737-1787)

Louis XVI of France (1754-1793, r.1774-1792)

Louis XVIII of France (1755-1824, r.1814-1824)

Charles X of France (1757-1836, r.1824-1830)

Louis Philippe of France (1773-1850, r.1830-1848)

  • The great-great grandson of Duke Philippe II of Orleans, the Regent at the beginning of the reign of Louis XV, Louis Philippe was considered a usurper by legitimists.
  • Wife: Princess Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1782-1866)
  • Children and Agnatic Grandchildren:
    • Ferdinand-Philippe, Duc d'Orleans (1810-1842), m. Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1814-1858)
      • Philippe, Comte de Paris (1838-1894) m. Maria Isabel d'Orleans, Infanta of Spain (1848-1919), his first cousin
      • Robert, Duc de Chartres (1840-1910) m. Princess Françoise of Orleans (1844-1925), his first cousin
    • Louise (1812-1850), m. King Leopold I of the Belgians
    • Marie (1813-1839), m. Duke Alexander of Württemberg
    • Louis, Duc de Nemours (1814-1896), m. Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1822-1857)
      • Gaston, Comte d'Eu, Prince of Brazil (1842-1922), m. Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil[?] (1846-1921)
      • Ferdinand, Duc d'Alençon (1844-1910), m. Sophia, Duchess in Bavaria (1847-1897)
      • Marguerite (1846-1896), m. Prince Wladislaw Czartoryski
      • Blanche (1857-1932)
    • Françoise (1816-1818)
    • Clementine (1817-1907), m. Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
    • François, Prince de Joinville (1818-1900), m. Infanta Francisca of Brazil (1824-1898)
      • Françoise (1844-1925), m. her first cousin, Robert, Duc de Chartres (1840-1910)
      • Pierre, Duc de Penthièvre (1845-1919)
    • Charles, Duc de Penthièvre (1820-1828)
    • Henri, Duc d'Aumale (1822-1897), m. Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1822-1869)
      • Louis, Prince de Condé (1845-1866)
      • Henri, Duc de Guise (1847-1847)
      • François, Duc de Guise (1852-1852)
      • François, Duc de Guise (1854-1872)
    • Antoine, Duc de Montpensier, Infant of Spain (1824-1890), m. Infanta Luisa of Spain (1832-1897)
      • Maria Isabel d'Orleans, Infanta of Spain (1848-1919), m. Philippe, COmte de Paris (1838-1894), her first cousin
      • Maria Amalia d'Orleans, Infanta of Spain (1851-1870)
      • Maria Cristina d'Orleans, Infanta of Spain (1852-1852)
      • Maria de la Regla d'Orleans, Infanta of Spain (1856-1861)
      • Fernando d'Orleans, Infant of Spain (1859-1873)
      • Mercedes d'Orleans, Infanta of Spain (1860-1878), m. King Alfonso XII of Spain
      • Felipe d'Orleans, Infant of Spain (1862-1864)
      • Antonio d'Orleans, Infant of Spain, Duke of Galliera (1866-1930), m. Infanta Eulalia of Spain (1864-1958)
      • Luis d'Orleans, Infant of Spain (1867-1874)

See also: List of French monarchs



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