Philip V the Tall
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c. 1291 – 1322 · 31 years · Paris · Europe
Reign: 1316 – 1322 (Franks and France)
Regent for his newborn nephew John I, he had himself crowned after the infant died, and an assembly of notables confirmed that women could not inherit the French crown. He died without sons.
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