Practice question · Estimate
From Hugh Capet’s accession in 987 until 1328 the French crown stayed in one family. Estimate how many years the direct Capetian line held the throne.
Estimate on a scale from 200 years (200) to 500 years (500).
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- Subtract the accession year from the year the direct line ended.
- 1328 minus 987.
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341 (answers within ±15 count)
Why
About 341 years. For most of that span the succession also ran father to son, which is the rarer achievement, no minorities to be exploited, no rival claimants, no interruption to the accumulation of domain and office. The line’s failure in the 1310s and 1320s produced the succession dispute behind the Hundred Years War.
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