In June 1316, Louis X of France (known as Louis le Hutin, “the Quarrelsome”)—son of Philip the Fair and briefly king after his father’s death—met a shocking and mysterious end at just 26 years old.
After an intense game of real tennis (jeu de paume) in the summer heat at Vincennes, the overheated king gulped down a large amount of chilled wine to cool off. Soon after, he fell gravely ill with violent symptoms and died within days. Was it poison slipped into the cup (a common medieval royal demise)? Or a deadly case of pleurisy, pneumonia, or shock from the extreme temperature change?
This sudden death plunged France into chaos: his pregnant wife Clemence of Hungary gave birth to a posthumous son (John I), who died days later, sparking the end of the direct Capetian line and the start of the Valois dynasty.
Watch this dramatic historical recap of one of the strangest royal deaths in French history—fact vs. rumor, poison theories, and the tennis twist that sealed his fate!
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