Editing Philip VI of France (section)

===Final years===
[[File:Funerailles Philippe VI.jpg|thumb|right|King Philip's funerary procession, which was presided over by the [[Jean de Vienne (archbishop, died 1351)|Archbishop of Reims]], illustrated by [[Loyset Liédet]]]]
After the defeat at Crécy and loss of Calais, the [[Estates General (France)|Estates of France]] refused to raise money for Philip, halting his plans to counter-attack by invading England. In 1348 the [[Black Death]] struck France and in the next few years killed one-third of the population, including Queen Joan. The resulting labour shortage caused inflation to soar, and the king attempted to [[Price controls|fix prices]], further destabilising the country. His second marriage to his son's betrothed [[Blanche of Navarre, Queen of France|Blanche of Navarre]] alienated his son and many nobles from the king.<ref>{{cite book | title=The Perfect King The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation | last=Mortimer | first=Ian | author-link=Ian Mortimer (historian) | pages=276 | year=2008 | publisher=Vintage }}</ref>

Philip's last major achievement was the acquisition of the [[Dauphiné]] and the territory of [[Montpellier]] in the [[Languedoc]] in 1349. At his death in 1350, France was very much a divided country filled with social unrest. Philip VI died at Coulombes Abbey, [[Eure-et-Loir]], on 22 August 1350<ref>Jonathan Sumption, ''Hundred Years War:Trial by Fire'', Vol. II, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 117.</ref> and is interred with his first wife, Joan of Burgundy, in [[Saint Denis Basilica]], though his [[viscera]] were buried separately at the now demolished church of [[Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques|Couvent des Jacobins]] in Paris. He was succeeded by his first son by Joan of Burgundy, who became [[John II of France|John II]].