noble_family margaret of france
Margaret of France ( c . 1279 -- 14 February 1318 ) , a daughter of Philip III of France and Maria of Brabant , was Queen of England as the second wife of King Edward I . The ___MASK79___ or the Direct Capetians , also called the ___MASK52___ (" la maison de France "), or simply the Capets , ruled the Kingdom of France from 987 to 1328 . It was the most senior line of the ___MASK89___  itself a derivative dynasty from the Robertians . Historians in the 19th century came to apply the name " Capetian " to both the ruling house of France and to the wider - spread male - line descendants of Hugh Capet . It was not a contemporary practice ( see ___MASK52___ ). They were sometimes called " the third race of kings ", the Merovingians being the first , and the Carolingians being the second . The name is derived from the nickname of Hugh , the first Capetian King , who was known as " Hugh Capet ". The direct succession of French kings , father to son , from 987 to 1316 , of thirteen generations in almost 330 years , was unparallelled in recorded history . Philip III ( 30 April 1245  5 October 1285 ), called the Bold , was King of France from 1270 to 1285 , a member of the ___MASK79___ .