Louis X of France

Louis X
Miniature depicting Louis X seated on a throne
Miniature depiction from the Life of Saint Louis, c. 1330–1340
King of France
Reign29 November 1314 – 5 June 1316
Coronation24 August 1315, Reims
PredecessorPhilip IV
SuccessorJohn I
King of Navarre
Reign4 April 1305 – 5 June 1316
Coronation1 October 1307, Pamplona
PredecessorJoan I and Philip I
SuccessorJohn I
Born4 October 1289
Paris, France
Died5 June 1316 (aged 26)
Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, France
Burial7 June 1316[1]
Spouses
(m. 1305; died 1315)

(m. 1315)
Issue
HouseCapet
FatherPhilip IV of France
MotherJoan I of Navarre

Louis X (4 October 1289 – 5 June 1316), known as the Quarrelsome (French: le Hutin), was King of France from 1314 and King of Navarre as Louis I from 1305 until his death. He emancipated serfs who could buy their freedom and readmitted Jews into the kingdom. His short reign in France was marked by tensions with the nobility, due to fiscal and centralisation reforms initiated during the reign of his father by Grand Chamberlain Enguerrand de Marigny.

Louis' first wife, Margaret, implicated in the Tour de Nesle affair, was found guilty of infidelity and was imprisoned until her death on 14 August 1315. Louis and Clémence of Hungary were married that same year, but he died on 5 June 1316 leaving a pregnant wife. Queen Clémence gave birth to a boy, who was proclaimed king as John I, but the infant lived only five days. Louis' brother Philip, Count of Poitiers, succeeded John to become Philip V, King of France.

  1. ^ Gaude-Ferragu 2005, p. 285.