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State · 1272 – 1594

House of Bourbon

A state of 1272 – 1594 in Europe. It was followed by House of Bourbon-Anjou, House of Orléans and House of Bourbon-Vendôme and 5 more. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.

  • Wikidata records no end for this state; the atlas ends it where the borders dataset last draws it, 1594.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Rulers
2
the French co-prince of Andorra
Most ground
74,100 km²
in 1564
Symbol
1
on record, with years
Map: House of Bourbon in 1564, its borders in gold among its neighbours
House of Bourbon in 1564, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 74,100 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.
House of Bourbon in 1333, first mapped

1333 · first mapped · 18,600 km²

House of Bourbon in 1564, at its largest

1564 · at its largest · 74,100 km²

The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000House of Bourbon-Anjou: 1701 – 1701House of Bourbon: 1272 – 1594

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

After it

  • House of Orléans · followed by
  • House of Bourbon-Vendôme · followed by
  • House of Bourbon in France · followed by
  • Bourbon-Busset · followed by
  • House of Bourbon-Anjou · followed by · 1701
  • Princes of Condé · followed by
  • House of Bourbon-Parma · followed by
  • House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies · followed by

Rulers

The line of French co-prince of Andorra.

French co-prince of Andorra: 2 holders, drawn and never measured - Andorra has two co-princes at once: the head of the French state and the Bishop of Urgell.

RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Jeanne d'Albret · collegial1555 – 157217 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Henry IV of France · collegial1572 – 161038 yearskilledWikidata's manner of death

2 rulers, 0 with terms dated as terms. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

13501400145015001550

18,600 km² in 1347, 74,100 km² in 1594; at its largest 74,100 km² in 1572. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Grand Royal Coat of Arms of France
    coat of arms, undatedGrand Royal Coat of Arms of France · CC BY-SA 3.0

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • The most ground it held74,100 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 39% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 3 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

France · In the article · 481 · “The pre-Capetian House of Bourbon was a noble family, dating at least from the beginning of the 13th century, when the estate of Bourbon was ruled by the Sire…”FranceHouse of Bourbon · 1272 – 1594House of BourbonPrinces of Condé · Linked · 1557 – 1830Princes of CondéHouse of Orléans · Linked · 1661House of OrléansHouse of Bourbon-Anjou · Linked · 1701House of Bourbon-Anjou50010001500
in the articlelinked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q58389 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.