KING OF FRANCE

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• KING OF FRANCE (noun)
  The noun KING OF FRANCE has 1 sense:

1. the sovereign ruler of France

  Familiarity information: KING OF FRANCE used as a noun is very rare.

• KING OF FRANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sovereign ruler of France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("King of France" is a kind of...):

king; male monarch; Rex (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)

Instance hyponyms:

Louis le Faineant; Louis V (the last Carolingian king of France (967-987))

Louis XVI (king of France from 1774 to 1792; his failure to grant reforms led to the French Revolution; he and his queen (Marie Antoinette) were guillotined (1754-1793))

Louis XV (grandson of Louis XIV and king of France from 1715 to 1774 who led France into the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War (1710-1774))

Louis the Great; Louis XIV; Sun King (king of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715))

Louis XIII (king of France from 1610 to 1643 who relied heavily on the advice of Cardinal Richelieu (1601-1643))

Louis XII (king of France who was popular with his subjects (1462-1515))

Louis XI (king of France who put down an alliance of unruly nobles and unified France except for Brittany (1423-1483))

Louis le Hutin; Louis the Quarreller; Louis X (king of France (1289-1316))

Louis IX; Saint Louis; St. Louis (king of France and son of Louis VIII; he led two unsuccessful Crusades; considered an ideal medieval king (1214-1270))

Louis VIII (king of France who increased the power of the Crown over the feudal lords (1187-1226))

Louis VII (king of France who led the unsuccessful Second Crusade and fought frequent wars with Henry II of England (1120-1180))

Louis the Bruiser; Louis the Far; Louis the Wideawake; Louis VI (king of France whose military victories consolidated his reign (1081-1137))

Capet; Hugh Capet (King of France elected in 987 and founding the Capetian dynasty (940-996))

Louis d'Outremer; Louis IV (king of France (921-954))

Louis III (son of Louis II and king of the France and Germany (863-882))

Louis II; Louis le Begue; Louis the German; Louis the Stammerer (king of France and Germany (846-879))

Louis I; Louis the Pious (third son of Charlemagne and king of France and Germany and Holy Roman Emperor (778-840))

Henry IV; Henry of Navarre; Henry the Great (king of France from 1589 to 1610; although he was leader of the Huguenot armies, when he succeeded the Catholic Henry III and founded the Bourbon dynasty in 1589 he established religious freedom in France)

Henry III (son of Henry II of France and the last Valois to be king of France (1551-1589))

Henry II (king of France from 1547 to 1559; regained Calais from the English; husband of Catherine de Medicis and father of Charles IX (1519-1559))

Charles; Charles IX (King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574))

Charles; Charles VII (King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461))

Charles; Charles I; Charles II; Charles the Bald (as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877))

 Context examples 

It would be a blithe day for the King of France when he heard that the seas lay between him and us.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By my faith! we did not tarry long, but we hied back to Bordeaux, where we came in safety with the King of France and also the feather-bed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, then, the King of France had followed us with fifty thousand men, and he made great haste to catch us, but when he had us he scarce knew what to do with us, for we were so drawn up among hedges and vineyards that they could not come nigh us, save by one lane.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We know that while with the right hand he takes our fifty thousand crowns for the holding of the passes open, he hath his left outstretched to Henry of Trastamare, or to the King of France, all ready to take as many more for the keeping them closed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)