Can you name the Monarchs of France?

Reigned	Monarch	Dynasty
843-877		Carolingian
877-879		Carolingian
879-882		Carolingian
879-884		Carolingian
885-888		Carolingian
888-898		Carolingian
898-922		Carolingian
922-923		Carolingian
923-936		Carolingian
936-954		Carolingian
954-986		Carolingian
986-987		Carolingian
987-996		Capet
996-1031		Capet
1031-1060		Capet
1060-1108		Capet
1108-1137		Capet
1137-1180		Capet
1180-1223		Capet
1223-1226		Capet
1226-1270		Capet
1270-1285		Capet
1285-1314		Capet
1314-1316		Capet
1316		Capet
1316-1322		Capet

Reigned	Monarch	Dynasty
1322-1328		Capet
1328-1350		Valois
1350-1364		Valois
1364-1380		Valois
1380-1422		Valois
1422-1461		Valois
1461-1483		Valois
1483-1498		Valois
1498-1515		Valois
1515-1547		Valois
1547-1559		Valois
1559-1560		Valois
1560-1574		Valois
1574-1589		Valois
1589-1610		Bourbon
1610-1643		Bourbon
1643-1715		Bourbon
1715-1774		Bourbon
1774-1792		Bourbon
1804-1814		Bonaparte
1814-1815		Bourbon
1815		Bonaparte
1815-1824		Bourbon
1824-1830		Bourbon
1830-1848		Orleans
1852-1870		Bonaparte

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Monarchs of France Quiz

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Created by: EasilyConfused -
Published: October 11th, 2008
Category: History
Plays: 50,658

Tags: Monarch Quizzes, france, reigned, dynasty, world history pack

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	Vix:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 15:26 GMT	7 points
	Why is there no Louis xvii? After Napoleon and all the Louis' I was clueless but what a way to learn

	springmom:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 15:45 GMT	27 points
	I believe the Bourbons skipped using XVII because that would have acknowledged the death of Louis, Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin under the Reign of Terror. By skipping to XVIII, they honored the family with the illusion that the Dauphin actually ruled....evidence is he died, but after Louis XVI was beheaded, so technically he was king, for awhile, at least.

	Emperor_Ziggy:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 19:17 GMT	10 points
	I think the boy who would have been Louis XVII was murdered when he was about ten years old during the French Revolution before he could take the throne after Louis XVI died.

	tcalleen:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 20:03 GMT	7 points
	I'm curious why the list starts with Charles II rather than with Charlemagne? After all, Charlemagne was the most significant of the Carolingian rulers (although history is not really my subject, so I may be really confused). Also, isn't Napoleon II missing? According to wikipedia, he was ruler for a tiny bit (although, like I said, history is not my subject - maybe I should go back to the TV quizzes now!)

	davidr:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 21:39 GMT	13 points
	@tcalleen: I think it's because Charlemagne (and the missing Carloman I and Louis I) were rulers of a much larger empire that included France. So they weren't Kings of France, as such. Napoleon II was only four years old when Napoleon I abdicated in his favour after losing the Battle of waterloo. At the time, Napoleon II was in Austria and it's not clear that he even knew that he'd become Emperor before Louis XVIII was restored to the throne about two weeks later.

	davidr:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 21:58 GMT	1 point
	Hmm. Sporcle's clock is four hours fast. It's a little before 2200GMT (2100BST) on 11th October as I write this.

	tcalleen:	Oct 13th, 2008 at 15:57 GMT	7 points
	Thanks, davidr. I guess I was thinking more "king of the franks" than "king of france".

	loose_cannon:	Oct 14th, 2008 at 20:23 GMT	17 points
	I got all the Henry's, Louis's, Phillip's, and and Charles's... then I ran out of names. Apparently, there were no great lineage of Steve's.

	magister:	Oct 15th, 2008 at 02:46 GMT	22 points
	I hope people call me "The Universal Spider" when I die!

	davidr:	Oct 15th, 2008 at 22:24 GMT	12 points
	I hope people don't call me "Just The Fat, Lazy, Mad Stammerer" when I die. That's not too much to ask, right?

	Uhlan:	Oct 24th, 2008 at 15:55 GMT	5 points
	A quiz for German, Polish, Czech etc leaders would be good.

	EasilyConfused:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:31 GMT	4 points
	I'll get to it eventually. :)

	Faxman:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 17:02 GMT	6 points
	You really have to love those royal nicknames

	russl:	Nov 18th, 2008 at 20:58 GMT	5 points
	I'd like an option that forces me to do them in chronological order. I think that would be useful for many of these type of quizzes - I'd learn more if I had to know which Louis came after which Philip instead of just typing as many of each name in as I can.

	Uhlan:	Nov 29th, 2008 at 10:53 GMT	6 points
	An optional 'in order' feature could be good, for once you have mastered the original.

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Jan 30th, 2009 at 05:42 GMT	8 points
	Some of these nicknames are great. Louis XI the Prudent, the Universal Spider? ****ing brilliant. Other than typing Louis over and over, I was pretty clueless.

	Sporcle Addict:	Feb 12th, 2009 at 23:34 GMT	1 point
	Louis XVII existed he just was never king. he died during the french revolution. After Napoleons downfall, during the congress of Vienna in 1815 when the European powers were deciding what to do with France so it didn't become too big a power again and also other territories (Napoleon really carved up Europe and when France fell they had to fix it all) they decided that "legitimate" rulers must be in charge (meaning those who came from already existing royal families). They chose Louis XVIII who was of the bourbon family but in order to legitimize his claim they had to give Louis XVII a title.

	Diablo11d:	Jun 10th, 2009 at 07:14 GMT	3 points
	yay for just knowing common french names!

	phelpdk:	Jul 3rd, 2009 at 05:16 GMT	0 points
	stupid dern quiz, why dont you accept napoleon?!!!?!?!?

	melissa:	Jul 20th, 2009 at 19:02 GMT	10 points
	Informative quiz, thanks. Why doesn't it accept just "Hugh" for Hugh Capet? Capet's already there in the Dynasty column. I kept thinking, "I could have SWORN there was a Hugh Capet in there" and trying to figure out whether there was any other way to spell Hugh (or EEWGHH, as the French pronounce it)!

	whitelodge:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 21:17 GMT	2 points
	Louis Louis.

	horses:	Dec 21st, 2009 at 14:12 GMT	1 point
	henry vi of england is considered by some to have been henri ii of france in the mid 15th century, but even by those that don't it makes the mext henrys to be one number higher

	Hermes76:	Jan 14th, 2010 at 02:35 GMT	1 point
	Great game, I have always found the French monarch interesting. Louis xvii was the son of the executed king and its believed he too was murdered, escaped in exile or was the "Man in the iron mask" It would be cool if you could go back to Clovis. But I understand Charlemagne ruled an area bigger than France including Austrasia and Neustria (Parts of Germany, Flanders and Burgundy) and the Ottonian kings of Western germany and the rhine valley took over here I think.

	Masternachos:	Feb 12th, 2010 at 02:23 GMT	2 points
	Here comes the Sun King.

	LoopyBrit:	Feb 24th, 2010 at 14:09 GMT	3 points
	Love how most French kings were apparently very unimaginative in naming their progeny! The French people, on the other hand, appear to have been a lot more imaginative with the nicknames. ;)

	finesse:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 20:46 GMT	5 points
	You must accept Hugues for Hugh Capet!!! You take Francois spelt right so why not???

	coolguy666:	Jun 2nd, 2010 at 10:54 GMT	1 point
	Hahaha, Charles the Fat.

	Nameless:	Jul 18th, 2010 at 23:39 GMT	2 points
	Now this is a country that has history !!

	llewelynofwales:	Aug 11th, 2010 at 00:16 GMT	1 point
	Ugh, missed most of the earlier ones! My early medieval scholar self is acutely ashamed. But really, my knowledge ended with Charles the Bald and his Viking pals, spikes with Philip IV and Henry III-end.

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	darthplaydoh:	Nov 25th, 2010 at 01:08 GMT	3 points
	yeah, I kept wondering why "Hugues Capet" wasn't working either, being a French student that's what I've always heard him called. I for some reason couldn't think of "Hugh" as the English and instead put "Hugo", figuring maybe that was the English equivalent... it's not that common of a name in French nowadays

	Sforzando:	Dec 29th, 2010 at 14:52 GMT	3 points
	Love the way I can get 35/52 just by trying three names.

	sol_invictus:	Sep 3rd, 2011 at 11:52 GMT	1 point
	too much kings missing, it would supposed to start in 496, or even before, as historian agreed to say that Clovis was the first " King of Franks "

	Maud:	Dec 21st, 2011 at 15:36 GMT	1 point
	Same as Darthplaydoh, i'm french and I kept putting Hugues Capet :(. You Should allow the french answer ;)

	ShaunCold:	Jan 11th, 2012 at 01:24 GMT	1 point
	I remembered Hugh Capet because of us learning about him one time in our history class and someone calling him "Hug Carpet".