Editing List of French monarchs (section)

==Titles==

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The kings used the title "King of the Franks" ({{langx|la|Rex Francorum}}) until the late twelfth century; the first to adopt the title of "King of France" ([[Latin]]: ''Rex Franciae''; [[French language|French]]: ''roi de France'') was [[Philip II of France|Philip II]] in 1190 (r. 1180–1223), after which the title "King of the Franks" gradually lost ground.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Aguilera-Barchet |first=Bruno |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zUsIBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA182 |title=A History of Western Public Law |publisher=Springer |year=2014 |isbn=9783319118031 |pages=182 |access-date=14 March 2022 |archive-date=14 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314001454/https://books.google.com/books?id=zUsIBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA182 |url-status=live }}</ref> However, ''Francorum Rex'' continued to be sometimes used, for example by [[Louis XII]] in 1499, by [[Francis I of France|Francis I]] in 1515, and by [[Henry II of France|Henry II]] in about 1550; it was also used on coins up to the eighteenth century.<ref>{{cite book|last=Potter|first=David|year=2008|title=Renaissance France at War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HbfJX2Y1bBkC&pg=PR8|publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd|isbn=9781843834052|page=viii}}</ref>

During the brief period when the [[French Constitution of 1791]] was in effect (1791–1792) and after the [[July Revolution]] in 1830, the [[style (manner of address)|style]] "[[Kingdom of the French|King of the French]]" (''roi des Français'') was used instead of "[[King of France]] (and [[King of Navarre|Navarre]])". It was a constitutional innovation known as [[popular monarchy]] which linked the monarch's title to the French people rather than to the possession of the territory of France.<ref name="deploige">{{cite book |title=Mystifying the Monarch |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |year=2006 |isbn=9789053567678 |editor-last=Deploige |editor-first=Jeroen |location=Amsterdam, Netherlands |pages=182 |editor2-last=Deneckere |editor2-first=Gita}}</ref>

With the [[House of Bonaparte]], the title "[[Emperor of the French]]" (''Empereur des Français'') was used in [[19th-century France]], during the [[First French Empire|first]] and [[Second French Empire|second]] French Empires, between 1804 and 1814, again in 1815, and between 1852 and 1870.<ref>{{cite book|title=Histoire de Napoléon III|last=Pascal|first=Adrien|pages=359|publisher=Barbier|location=Paris, France|year=1853}}</ref>

From the 14th century down to 1801, the [[English claims to the French throne|English (and later British) monarch claimed the throne of France]], though such claim was purely nominal excepting a short period during the [[Hundred Years' War]] when [[Henry VI of England]] had control over most of Northern France, including Paris. By 1453, the English had been mostly expelled from France and Henry's claim has since been considered illegitimate; French historiography commonly does not recognize Henry VI of England among the kings of France.