Philip of Valois

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Noun1.Philip of Valois - king of France who founded the Valois dynastyPhilip of Valois - king of France who founded the Valois dynasty; his dispute with Edward III over his succession led to the Hundred Years' War (1293-1350)
Philip VI
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Philip of Valois succeeded to the French throne naturaliter because succession follows naturam, and language provides the outward marker of his legitimacy, and conversely of the inappropriateness--indeed we might say the monstrousness--of English rule.
"Aucuns de ma langue": language and political identity in late-medieval France
The French nobility, how ever, swiftly accepted Philip of Valois as King Philip VI, not because Edward III's claim lay through a woman, it seems, but because he was English and unsuitable.
End of the hundred years war October 19th, 1453
He had a first cousin, Philip of Valois, who was descended from the French king Philip III by way of his father, and a nephew, Edward III of England (1312-1377), who was descended from the French king Philip IV by way of his mother.
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