John I (King of France)

He was born a few months after the death of his father, on November 15, 1316, and was immediately proclaimed king, but the infant king died five days later immediately after baptism.

By virtue of the Salic law, the throne was not allowed to inherit the sister of John (Jeanne) of Navarre , daughter of Louis X from her first marriage with Margarita of Burgundy , and the regent of the kingdom became the successor of the baby, the younger brother of Louis - Count Poitiers Philippe . The inheritance of the throne caused a dynastic crisis, because for more than three centuries there have been no such difficulties with the succession to the throne - since the time of Hugo Kapet among the Kapetings, power has always passed from father to eldest son without difficulty.

Rumor had it that Philip V was involved in the death of a newborn nephew; others claimed that Philip abducted John and replaced him with a dead child. Subsequently, impostors appeared, posing as John the Posthumous; one of them, named Giannino di Guccio Balloni , acted in Provence in the 1350s and was imprisoned there, where he died.

Rumors had it that King John I was poisoned by mother-in-law Philippe, Countess Matilda d'Artois (Mago d'Artois) - this ambitious lady seemed to dream that her son-in-law and daughter Jeanne would become king and queen of France.

There is a genuine code of Cola di Rienzo , which describes the whole story of the poisoning of Mago's son, but not the queen, but the nurse (the replaced king, according to the code, was brought up in France, then in Italy under the name of Balloni).

The baby king was buried in the basilica of the Abbey of Saint-Denis . During the French Revolution, his grave was desecrated , the remains thrown away, the tombstone was broken. The current gravestone is a remake.

• Alain Deco. John I Posthumous // The Great Mysteries of History / trans. I. Alcheeva. - M .: Veche, 2004, 2006. - S. 178-204. - 480 p. - (Great secrets). - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-9533-0229-0 .