Philip V of France

Philip the Tall
Contemporary picture from the L'arbre généalogique Bernard Gui, Généalogie des rois de France
King of France and Navarre
Reign	20 November 1316 – 3 January 1322
Coronation	9 January 1317
Predecessor	John I
Successor	Charles IV and I
Born	c. 1293 Lyon, France
Died	3 January 1322 (aged 29) Abbey of Longchamp, Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France
Burial	Saint Denis Basilica
Spouse	Joan II of Burgundy
Issue	Joan III of Burgundy Margaret I of Burgundy Isabelle of France Blanche of France
House	Capet
Father	Philip IV of France
Mother	Joan I of Navarre
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Philip V (c. 1293 – 3 January 1322), the Tall (French: Philippe le Long), was King of France and King of Navarre (as Philip II). He reigned from 1316 to his death and was the penultimate monarch of the main line of the House of Capet.

As the second son of king Philip IV, he was entitled to an appanage, the County of Poitiers, while his elder brother, Louis X, inherited the throne in 1314. When Louis died in 1316, he left a daughter and a pregnant wife, Clementia of Hungary. Philip the Tall successfully claimed the regency. Queen Clementia gave birth to a boy, who was proclaimed king as John I, but the infant king lived only for five days.

At the death of his nephew, Philip immediately had himself crowned at Reims. However, his legitimacy was challenged by the party of Louis X’s daughter Joan. Philip V successfully contested her claims for a number of reasons, including her youth, doubts regarding her paternity (her mother was involved in the Tour de Nesle Affair), and the Estates General's determination that women should be excluded from the line of succession to the French throne. The succession of Philip, instead of Joan, set the precedent for the French royal succession that would be famously known as the Salic law.

Philip V restored somewhat good relations with the County of Flanders, which had entered into open rebellion during his father’s rule, but simultaneously his relations with Edward II of England worsened as the English king, who was also Duke of Guyenne, initially refused to pay him homage. A spontaneous popular crusade started in Normandy in 1320 aiming to liberate Iberia from the Moors. Instead the angry populace marched to the south attacking castles, royal officials, priests, lepers, and Jews.