When infidelity rocked the Capetian dynasty in France, princesses were locked away and knights were skinned alive. This 1850 lithograph imagines Margaret of Burgundy (at right) enjoying her ...

The unbroken succession of fifteen Capetian kings began in 987 when Hugh Capet was elected to the kingship of the Franks by his fellow magnates at Senlis, replacing the Carolingian dynasty that had ...

Justine Firnhaber-Baker offers up this detail in “House of Lilies,” her fascinating group portrait of a series of medieval French kings—all members of the Capetian dynasty. Along the way ...

the Capetian dynasty ended, creating conditions that eventually led to the Hundred Years' War. The next tennis-related fatality struck in 1437. Known for having a physique of "excessive corpulence ...