House of Valois

House of Valois
Arms of County of Valois
Parent house	Capetian dynasty
Country	Kingdom of France (1328-1589) Duchy of Burgundy (1361-1482) Kingdom of Naples (1389-1399, 1435-1442, 1501-1504) Duchy of Milan (1499-1512, 1515-1521) Duchy of Brittany (1514-1547) Principality of Neuchâtel (1543-1707 through illegitimate branch) Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1573-1575)
Founded	1284
Founder	Charles, Count of Valois
Final ruler	Henry III of France in France Marie de Nemours in Neuchâtel
Dissolution	1589 (royal line) and 1707 (Neuchâtel line)
Cadet branches	Valois-Orléans Valois-Angoulême Valois-Saint-Remy (illegitimate) Valois-Dunois (illegitimate) Valois-Anjou Valois-Burgundy Valois-Alençon

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The Capetian house of Valois^[a] (UK: /ˈvælwɑː/ VAL-wah, also US: /vælˈwɑː, vɑːlˈwɑː/ va(h)l-WAH,^[1] French: [valwa]) was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. They succeeded the House of Capet (or "Direct Capetians") to the French throne, and were the royal house of France from 1328 to 1589. Junior members of the family founded cadet branches in Orléans, Anjou, Burgundy, and Alençon.

The Valois descended from Charles, Count of Valois (1270–1325), the second surviving son of King Philip III of France (reigned 1270–1285). Their title to the throne was based on a precedent in 1316 (later retroactively attributed to the Merovingian Salic law) which excluded females (Joan II of Navarre), as well as male descendants through the distaff side (Edward III of England), from the succession to the French throne.

After holding the throne for several centuries the Valois male line became extinct and the House of Bourbon succeeded the Valois to the throne as the senior-surviving branch of the Capetian dynasty.

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