Stats: Kings of France (Includes Mayors)

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The average score is 43 of 73

Answer Stats

		Hint	Answer	% Correct
Bourbon	1643-1715	(The Sun King) Consolidated into absolute rule, three major wars	Louis XIV	95%
Carolingian	768-814	Campaigned against Saxons, crowned Emperor Christmas Day 800, oversaw political reforms and Carolingian Renaissance	Charlemagne	92%
Carolingian	813-840	(The Pious) many embarrassments, civil war among sons	Louis I	86%
Carolingian	877-879	(The Stammerer) physically weak	Louis II	86%
Capet	1314-1316	(The Quarreler) Readmitted Jews, abolished slavery, serfs could buy freedom	Louis X	83%
Carolingian	843-877	(The Bald) Treaty of Verdun	Charles II	81%
Carolingian	936-954	(from Overseas) power struggle against Hugh the Great	Louis IV	81%
Bourbon	1715-1774	(The Beloved) Drained treasury with wars	Louis XV	81%
Carolingian	884-887	(The Fat) Bought peace with Vikings (Siege of Paris)	Charles III	79%
Carolingian	893-922	(The Simple/Straightforward) imprisoned and deposed	Charles III	79%
Capet	1226-1270	(Saint Louis) Reformer of justice, 7 & 8 Crusades	Louis IX	79%
Carolingian	986-987	Puppet to nobles, no heirs	Louis V	79%
Capet	1108-1137	(The Fighter/Fat) reinforced power, strong king	Louis VI	79%
Capet	1137-1180	(The Young) Second crusade, Notre-Dame construction, University of Paris founding	Louis VII	79%
Capet	1223-1226	(The Lion) military prowess	Louis VIII	79%
Valois	1461-1483	(The Prudent/Universal Spider) Rebellion against father, strengthened country	Louis XI	79%
Bourbon	1774-1792	Generally ineffective and conservative, leading to French Revolution and his beheading	Louis XVI	79%
Carolingian	879-882	Died while chasing a girl	Louis III	78%
Valois	1498-1515	(Father of the People) Married widow of cousin (Anne of Brittany) civil peace	Louis XII	78%
Bourbon	1610-1643	(The Just) relied on ministers and Cardinal Richelieu, exiled his mother and executed her followers	Louis XIII	78%
Capet	1322-1328	(The Fair) peasant revolt, Edward II King of England swears allegiance	Charles IV	76%
Valois	1364-1380	(The Wise) Recovers most territory, first permanent army in France	Charles V	76%
Valois	1380-1422	(The Beloved/Mad) Disastrous reign loses territory and funds, bouts of madness, believed he was made of glass	Charles VI	76%
Valois	1422-1461	(The Victorious) Joan of Arc helps regain French power	Charles VII	76%
Valois	1483-1498	(The Affable) Married the already proxy-married Anne of Brittany, preventing Hapsburg encirclement	Charles VIII	76%
Bonapart	1804-1814	Emperor of France, leader during French Revolutionary Wars, eventually exiled, was briefly king again in the hundred days war of 1815	Napoleon	76%
Carolingian	751-768	Son of Charles Martel, gave many cities to Pope, expanded the territory greatly	Pepin	76%
Capet	1180-1223	(Augustus) First to call himself "King of France" and led country to be the most powerful in Europe	Philip II	75%
Bourbon	1824-1830	July Revolution and abdication	Charles X	73%
Capet	1031-1060	Shrinking of territory	Henry I	73%
Bourbon	1814-1824	(The Desired) Bourbon restoration, constitutional monarchy	Louis XVIII	73%
Bonapart	1852-1870	Began as President of France, eventually organizing a coup-d'etat and took the throne, eventually went into exile	Napoleon III	71%
Valois	1560-1574	Protestant and Catholic wars, many decisions made by mother Catherine de'Medici	Charles IX	70%
Valois	1547-1559	Ended Italian wars, gained territory, death in jousting tournament	Henry II	70%
Capet	1060-1108	(The Amorous) Modest expansion, excommunicated until 1104 because of infidelity	Philip I	70%
Bourbon	1589-1610	(The Great) Only Protestant King, Huguenot, later converted, many assassination attempts one of which killed him	Henry IV	67%
Merovingian	509-511	First to unite Frankish tribes,Merovingian founder, converts to Catholicism	Clovis I	65%
Valois	1574-1589	Murdered by Catholic fanatic	Henry III	65%
Capet	1270-1285	(The Bold) Gained territory	Philip III	65%
Capet	1285-1314	(The Fair/Ironking) centralization, expelled Jews and annihilated Knights Templar to whom he was in debt	Philip IV	62%
Valois	1515-1547	(Knight-king/Large-Nose) Initiated French Renaissance, formed Franco-Ottoman alliance	Francis I	60%
Valois	1559-1560	French War of Religions, married Mary Queen of Scots,	Francis II	60%
Capet	1316-1322	(The Tall) Domestic reforms, Shephards Crusade	Philip V	59%
Capet	987-996	Elected unanimously, made Paris his center of power	Hugh Capet	57%
Capet	1316	(The Posthumous) Born a king, died five days later	John I	57%
Valois	1328-1350	(The Fortunate) Succession dispute, beginning 100 Years War	Philip VI	57%
Valois	1350-1364	(The Good) Created franc, captured, lost many territories, Black Death	John II	56%
Capet	996-1031	(The Pious/Wise) tried to expand, difficult marriages, civil war with songs	Robert II	54%
Carolingian	768-771	Received half the territory, reign was troubled due to quarrels with his elder brother	Carloman I	51%
Merovingian	639-657	Diminishing of power by MOPs, an infant for most of his reign	Clovis II	51%
Robertian	888-898	Power struggle	Odo	51%
Carolingian	879-884	Viking raids	Carloman II	46%
Carolingian	954-986	(III or IV) War with Holy Roman Empire, stable ruler	Lothair	46%
Merovingian MOP	680-714	Took title of Duke and Prince of the Franks, established the Pippinids family (who would become the Carolingians)	Pepin II	46%
Merovingian	629-639	Last Merovingian to wield "real royal power"	Dagobert I	44%
Merovingian	450-458	Semi-legendary	Merovech	43%
Merovingian	458-481	Buried with 300 gold bees	Childeric I	40%
Merovingian MOP	715-741	Son of Pepin II, Battle of Tours (last of great Arab invasions) grandson is Charlemagne, ruled from 737 on	Charles Martel	37%
Merovingian	584-613	(The Great/The Young) Defeats Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia	Chlothar II	37%
Merovingian roi fainéant	673-675	Attempted to displace MOP with a different one but was unsuccessful and was murdered.	Childeric II	35%
Merovingian	511-561	(The Old) campaigned to expand lands	Chlothar I	35%
Merovingian roi fainéant	743-751	A puppet, Pepin the Short had Pope Zachery depose him	Childeric III	33%
Merovingian roi fainéant	657-673	Not much known about his reign	Chlothar III	33%
Merovingian roi fainéant	711-715	Under control of Pepin II	Dagobert III	32%
Orleans	1830-1848	Initially supported French Revolution, July Monarchy, forced to abdicate in French Revolution of 1848	Louis-Phillipe	30%
Merovingian	715-721	Had been hidden in a monastery until he was 43, achieved military victories but was defeated by Charles Martel	Chilperic II	29%
Merovingian roi fainéant	691-694	A puppet of Pepin II	Clovis IV	29%
Merovingian roi fainéant	694-711	(The Just) A puppet of Pepin II but did make judicial decisions on his own	Childebert III	17%
Merovingian roi fainéant	675-691	First MOP Ebroin largely controlled him, made peace with Pepin of Heristal with his second MOP	Theudric III	14%
Merovingian MOP	658-680	"de facto" ruler, assassinated, oversaw turmoil among Burgundy and Neustria and reunited France	Ebroin	13%
Merovingian roi fainéant	721-737	Held in custody by MOP Charles Martel, throne vacant for 7 years after death	Theudric IV	13%
Merovingian MOP	641-658	First MOP to gain great power by marrying his slave Balthild to Clovis II	Erchinoald	3%
Merovingian MOP	680-686	Worked with his king to make peace with Pepin II of Heristal, was briefly deposed by his own son Gistemar. Made peace with all 3 Frankish kingdoms	Waratton	2%

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