LOUIS X LE HUTIN or THE QUARRELEUR
(Paris, 1289 - Vincennes, 1316.) King of France (1314-1316). Son of Philippe IV le Bel.
The reign of Hutin foreshadows Capetian decadence in all areas. When he succeeded his father in 1314, after having inherited Navarre nine years earlier, this monarch suffered the ascendancy of feudal lords led by his uncle Charles de Valois, who had sworn to take revenge on Philippe le Bel's main adviser. , Enguerrand de Marigny. Louis X gave satisfaction to the lords by having his father's faithful adviser executed in 1315. Short of cash, he discredited the regime by despoiling Lombard bankers and Jewish merchants.
His private life was commensurate with his public existence, the queen, Marguerite of Burgundy, being compromised in the scandal of the d'Aulnay brothers. Repudiated in 1314, perhaps strangled in prison the following year, she was replaced by Clemence of Hungary, who gave birth to a posthumous son following the sovereign's sudden death. But Jean 1er himself only lived for four days, leaving the throne to his uncle Philippe V le Long, whom some moreover accuse of having precipitated his death.