Favorite French Royal house

What is your favorite French royal hose

  • Plantagenet

    Votes: 14 15.7%
  • Capet(Direct)

    Votes: 5 5.6%
  • Valois

    Votes: 4 4.5%
  • Bourbons

    Votes: 21 23.6%
  • Bonaparte

    Votes: 29 32.6%
  • Carolingian

    Votes: 9 10.1%
  • Merovingian

    Votes: 7 7.9%

  • Total voters
    89
No one called them Capetians, however.
In fact, some did, you can talk about
-Robertiens
-Capetiens directs
-Capetiens-Valois
-Capetiens-Bourbons
-Capetiens-Orléans (or Capetiens-Bourbons-Orléans)

And for the Plantagenet, well. They obviously from french origin, but it's a matter of debate to say if they managed to keep it after Henry II.
 
ah, the Robertians; btw the house of Babenberg descended from another branch of the Robertians.
 
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Put me down as "Bourbon" but more specifically Orleanist.

Louis Philippe was ready to be a constitutional monarch, in a way that his Legitimist cousins weren't, and unlike his Bonaparte successor he was good at keeping out of war. About the best of an unpromising lot, at least as far as the 19C was concerned.
 
Though the English lost the Hundread Years Wars, the Plantagenêt did succeed for a short time to have one of them crowned as King of France : Henry VI, who was crowned at Notre Dame de Paris in 1432. Yet, because it was in Notre Dame and not Reims, and because the HYW was lost by England, he was never recognized by the French as a legitimate King.

By the same argument Louis (VIII) Capet was a monarch of England (crowned in Londen).
 
Put me down as "Bourbon" but more specifically Orleanist.

Louis Philippe was ready to be a constitutional monarch, in a way that his Legitimist cousins weren't, and unlike his Bonaparte successor he was good at keeping out of war. About the best of an unpromising lot, at least as far as the 19C was concerned.

Of course, the only problem was that domestic issues was what kicked him out... :p
 
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