biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1293–1350)
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| biography:
| First Valois king of France (1328–50), the nephew of Philip IV, who became king on the death of Charles IV. His right was denied by Edward III of England, son of the daughter of Philip IV, who declared that females, though excluded from the succession by the Salic law, could transmit their right to their children. The Hundred Years' War with England thus began (1337), and in 1346 Edward III landed in Normandy, defeating Philip at Crécy, just as the Black Death was about to spread through France. |
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