State · 987 – 1791
Kingdom of France
A state of 987 – 1791 — 804 years in Europe. It replaced Crown of Aragon, West Francia and Neustria and 4 more and followed Prince-Bishopric of Strasbourg and Lower Alsace. It was replaced by France and Kingdom of France (1791–92). The atlas records 912 things within it — wars and battles 199 · unrest and atrocity 28 · famine and plague 1 · treaties 38 · people 633 · works and ideas 5 · trade and piracy 8. Its line of rulers holds 28 people. Its own article says it was dissolved.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 804 years
- 987 – 1791
- Rulers
- 28
- the King of France
- Most ground
- 791,100 km²
- in 1757
- Within it
- 912
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
990 · first mapped · 48,900 km²
1757 · at its largest · 791,100 km²
Where it sits in time
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.
Before it
- Neustria · replaces · 511 – 751
- Crown of Aragon · replaces · 1162 – 1715
- West Francia · replaces · 843 – 987
- Angevin Empire · replaces · 1154 – 1242
- Lower Alsace · follows · 1200 – 1700
- Principality of Dombes · replaces
- Republic of Saint-Malo · replaces
- Kingdom of Navarre beyond the Pyrenees · replaces
- Prince-Bishopric of Strasbourg · follows · 982 – 1803
After it
- France · replaced by · 481 – present
- Kingdom of France (1791–92) · replaced by · 1791 – 1792
How it ended, as its article says
Dissolved, 1792. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
From then, France was continuously ruled by the Capetians and their cadet lines under the Valois and Bourbon until the monarchy was abolished in 1792 during the French Revolution.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
The line of King of France - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philip II of France | 1180 – 1223 | 43 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | |
| Louis VIII of France | 1223 – 1226 | 3 years | deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Louis IX of France | 1226 – 1270 | 44 years | ended otherwise, as coded — neither deposed nor a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Philip III of France | 1270 – 1285 | 15 years | ended otherwise, as coded — neither deposed nor a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Philip IV of France | 1285 – 1314 | 29 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Louis X of France | 1314 – 1316 | 2 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| John I of France | 1316 – 1316 | under a year | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Philip V of France | 1316 – 1322 | 6 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | |
| Charles IV of France | 1322 – 1328 | 6 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | sibling |
| Philip VI of France | 1328 – 1350 | 22 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | |
| John II of France | 1350 – 1364 | 14 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Charles V of France | 1364 – 1380 | 16 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Charles VI of France | 1380 – 1422 | 42 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Charles VII of France | 1422 – 1461 | 39 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Louis XI | 1461 – 1483 | 22 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Charles VIII of France | 1483 – 1498 | 15 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Louis XII | 1498 – 1515 | 17 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | |
| Francis I of France | 1515 – 1547 | 32 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | in-law |
| Henry II of France | 1547 – 1559 | 12 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Francis II of France | 1559 – 1560 | 1 year | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Charles IX of France | 1560 – 1574 | 14 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | sibling |
| Henry III of France | 1574 – 1589 | 15 years | deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | sibling |
| Henry IV of France | 1589 – 1610 | 21 years | deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | |
| Louis XIII | 1610 – 1643 | 33 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Louis XIV | 1643 – 1715 | 72 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Louis XV | 1715 – 1774 | 59 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | another recorded relative |
| Louis XVI | 1774 – 1791 | 17 years | deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | grandchild |
| Louis XVII | 1793 – 1795 | 2 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | child |
28 rulers, 28 with terms dated as terms, covering 1180 – 1795. Median reign 16.5 years. 12 of 27 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. 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.
15,200 km² in 1012, 581,000 km² in 1791; at its largest 766,700 km² in 1737. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedRoyal Standard of the King of France · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sodacan 
coat of arms, undatedGrand Royal Coat of Arms of France & Navarre · CC BY-SA 3.0
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1000 – 109933 rows · 3 wars and battles
- Peter Abelard · philosopher · 1079 – 1142
- Pope Urban II · religious leader · 1035 – 1099
- Anselm of Canterbury · philosopher · 1033 – 1109
- Bernard of Clairvaux · philosopher · 1090 – 1153
- Pope Callixtus II · politician · 1065 – 1124
- Henry I of France · person · 1008 – 1060
- Louis VI of France · ruler · 1081 – 1137
- Philip I of France · ruler · 1052 – 1108
and 25 more in the atlas.
1100 – 119940 rows · 5 wars and battles
- Philip II of France · ruler · 1165 – 1223
- Louis VII of France · ruler · 1120 – 1180
- Pope Urban IV · politician · 1185 – 1264
- Pope Clement IV · religious leader · 1190 – 1268
- Louis VIII of France · ruler · 1187 – 1226
- Geoffrey V of Anjou · person · 1113 – 1151
- Geoffrey of Villehardouin · writer · 1148 – 1213
- Raynald of Châtillon · commander · 1120 – 1187
and 32 more in the atlas.
1200 – 129944 rows · 11 wars and battles
- Louis IX of France · ruler · 1214 – 1270
- Philip IV of France · ruler · 1268 – 1314
- Pope John XXII · writer · 1244 – 1334
- Pope Clement V · religious leader · 1264 – 1314
- Pope Benedict XII · religious leader · 1280 – 1342
- Pope Clement VI · religious leader · 1291 – 1352
- Pope Martin IV · politician · 1220 – 1285
- Philip III of France · ruler · 1245 – 1285
and 36 more in the atlas.
1300 – 139968 rows · 25 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Hundred Years' War · war · 1337 – 1453
- Christine de Pizan · philosopher · 1364 – 1430
- Charles VI of France · ruler · 1368 – 1422
- Pope Urban V · religious leader · 1310 – 1370
- Charles V of France · ruler · 1338 – 1380
- John II of France · ruler · 1319 – 1364
- John I of France · ruler · 1316
- Charles I, Duke of Orléans · writer · 1394 – 1465
and 60 more in the atlas.
1400 – 149989 rows · 29 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Joan of Arc · religious leader · 1412 – 1431
- Jacques Cartier · explorer · 1492 – 1557
- François Rabelais · scientist · 1494 – 1553
- François Villon · writer · 1431 – 1464
- Saint Martin · discovery · 1493
- Francis I of France · ruler · 1494 – 1547
- Louis XI · ruler · 1423 – 1483
- Louis XII · ruler · 1462 – 1515
and 81 more in the atlas.
1500 – 159997 rows · 33 wars and battles · 6 risings, regime changes and massacres
- René Descartes · scientist · 1596 – 1650
- Michel de Montaigne · philosopher · 1533 – 1592
- John Calvin · philosopher · 1509 – 1564
- Nostradamus · scientist · 1503 – 1566
- Cardinal Richelieu · politician · 1585 – 1642
- Henry IV of France · ruler · 1553 – 1610
- Nicolas Poussin · artist · 1594 – 1665
- Catherine de' Medici · person · 1519 – 1589
and 89 more in the atlas.
1600 – 1699143 rows · 52 wars and battles · 5 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Voltaire · philosopher · 1694 – 1778
- Molière · writer · 1622 – 1673
- Blaise Pascal · scientist · 1623 – 1662
- Louis XIV · ruler · 1638 – 1715
- Montesquieu · philosopher · 1689 – 1755
- Jean de La Fontaine · writer · 1621 – 1695
- Jean Racine · writer · 1639 – 1699
- Pierre de Fermat · scientist · 1601 – 1665
and 135 more in the atlas.
1700 – 1799398 rows · 41 wars and battles · 11 risings, regime changes and massacres
- French Revolution · unrest · 1789 – 1799
- Denis Diderot · philosopher · 1713 – 1784
- Stendhal · politician · 1783 – 1842
- Maximilien Robespierre · politician · 1758 – 1794
- Joseph Fourier · scientist · 1768 – 1830
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · artist · 1780 – 1867
- Antoine Lavoisier · scientist · 1743 – 1794
- Pierre-Simon Laplace · scientist · 1749 – 1827
and 390 more in the atlas.
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.
- How long it stood804 years
stood longer than 95% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held791,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 81% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century2.7
had more wars on record per century than 98% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median17 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 54% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record28
has more rulers on record than 94% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 9 causes the record names and 42 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.
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
- On the timeline, 907 – 1871, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1757, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q70972 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.