tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post2105253409036849342..comments2024-03-11T13:16:19.098-04:00Comments on Ad Orientem: On the coronation and anointing of French monarchsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-71269392417912308892015-11-14T09:32:58.150-05:002015-11-14T09:32:58.150-05:00"Philip's grandfather, St. Louis" sh..."Philip's grandfather, St. Louis" should have been "Philip's great-grandfather."William Tighehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16634494183165592707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-55697494371500723662015-11-13T19:53:32.267-05:002015-11-13T19:53:32.267-05:00Comment from Dr. Tighe who apparently had some dif...Comment from Dr. Tighe who apparently had some difficulty with the combox...<br /><br /><i>"but from antiquity the throne and crown of France adhered to Salic Law, which permitted succession to the throne only through the male line and excluded all females"</i><br /> <br />Hardly "from antiquity;" rather, from 1316, when Louis X of France died and his brother Philip (later Philip V) became regent. Louis left a pregnant second wife; he also left a daughter, Joan (1312-1349) by his first wife, who had been convicted of adultery, and the daughter's paternity was a matter of some doubt. Five months later Louis X's widow gave birth to a son, who was proclaimed king as "John I," but died five days afterwards. Philip seized the throne and had himself quickly crowned, and an Estates General meeting declared that women could not inherit the French Crown, basing its statement on an old law of the Salian Franks which had nothing to do with the royal succession, but rather with the inheritance of property (not that a female monarch was even conceivable under the Merovingian and Carolingian kings; it was only the advent of "feudalism" and, with it, the concept of monarchical succession as a kind of "feudal" inheritance that made it possible).<br /> <br />That the "Salian Law" was used as a kind of ex post facto rationalization of Philip V's seizure of the throne is demonstrated by the fact that Philip's grandfather, St. Louis (Louis IX, d. 1270) envisaged his being succeeded by one of his daughters should he die without any sons of his own. Joan, by the way, was eventually allowed to inherit the throne of Navarre (as Joan II), which had had previous female monarchs, and which had been united dynastically with France due to the marriage of Joan I of Navarre (d. 1305) to Philip IV of France (d. 1314) and who were the parents of Louis X (d. 1316(, Philip V (d. 1322) and Charles IV (d. 1328).John (Ad Orientem)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14329907942477160166noreply@blogger.com