Editing John I of France (section)

==Consequences==
[[File:Jean Ier Bier.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Funerary convoy of John I]]
The [[child mortality]] rate was very high in medieval Europe and John may have died from any number of causes, but rumours of poisoning spread immediately after his death (including one which said that he had been murdered with a pin by his aunt),<ref>''Magnificent Monarchs'' (Fact Attack series) p. 23 by Ian Locke; published by Macmillan in 1999; {{ISBN|978-0330-374965}}</ref> as many people benefited from it, and as John's father had also died in strange circumstances. The cause of his death is still not known today.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.histoire-et-secrets.com/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=101|title=Histoire et Secrets – découvrir l'histoire de France et du monde – Jean Ier : un règne de quatre jours|work=histoire-et-secrets.com|language=fr|access-date=15 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925100226/http://www.histoire-et-secrets.com/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=101|archive-date=25 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The premature death of John brought the first issue of succession of the [[Capetian dynasty]]. When [[Louis X of France|Louis X]], his father, died without a son to succeed him, it was the first time since [[Hugh Capet]] that the succession from father to son of the kings of France was interrupted. It was then decided to wait until his pregnant widow, [[Clementia of Hungary]], delivered the child. The king's brother, [[Philip V of France|Philip the Tall]], was in charge of the regency of the kingdom against his uncle [[Charles, Count of Valois|Charles of Valois]]. The birth of a male child was expected to give France its king.  The problem of succession returned when John died four days after birth.  Philip ascended the throne at the expense of John's four-year-old half-sister, [[Joan II of Navarre|Joan]], daughter of [[Louis X of France|Louis X]] and [[Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France|Margaret of Burgundy]].