Editing Charles IV of France (section)

==Death and legacy==
Charles IV died in 1328 at the [[Château de Vincennes]], [[Val-de-Marne]], and is interred with his third wife, [[Jeanne d'Évreux]], in [[Saint Denis Basilica]], with his heart buried at the now-demolished church of the [[Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques|Couvent des Jacobins]] in [[Paris]].

Like his brothers before him, Charles died without a surviving male heir, thus ending the direct line of the [[Capetian dynasty]]. Twelve years earlier, a rule against succession by women, arguably derived from the [[Salic Law]], had been recognised – with some dissent – as controlling succession to the French throne.<ref name="Wagner" /> The application of this rule barred Charles's one-year-old daughter Mary, by Jeanne d'Évreux, from succeeding as the monarch, but Jeanne was also pregnant at the time of Charles's death. Since she might have given birth to a son, a regency was set up under the heir presumptive [[Philip VI of France|Philip of Valois]], son of Charles of Valois and a member of the [[House of Valois]], the next most senior branch of the Capetian dynasty.<ref name="Sumption1">Sumption, p.106.</ref>

After two months, Jeanne gave birth to another daughter, [[Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans|Blanche]], and thus Philip became king and in May was consecrated and crowned Philip VI. [[Edward III of England]] claimed, however, that although the Salic law should forbid inheritance ''by'' a woman, it did not forbid inheritance ''through'' the [[Matrilineality|matrilineal]] line . Thus  Edward III, son of Queen Isabella, wife of Edward II and daughter of Philip IV, has the right to the French throne by inheritance. Pressing the claim to the French throne eventually caused the [[Hundred Years War]] (1337–1453).<ref name="Sumption1" />