Philip of Valois, Duke of Orléans

Philip of Valois (1336–1375), born in Paris, was the younger son of King Philip VI and Joan of Burgundy. In 1344 his father made him Duke of Orléans with Valois as his apanage, and in 1345 he married Blanche, daughter of Charles IV; the marriage was childless.

He fought beside John II at Poitiers in 1356 but fled the field, then went as a hostage to England under the 1360 Treaty of Brétigny, freed in 1365. He died suddenly in 1375, and his apanage reverted to the crown.