Philip V of France

Philip V (c. 1291–1322), called the Tall, was the second son of Philip IV and Joan I of Navarre. After Louis X died in 1316 he took the regency; the posthumous John I lived only days, and Philip had himself crowned. He set aside the claim of Louis's daughter Joan after the Estates General excluded women from the succession, fixing the precedent of the Salic law.

His reforms created an independent Court of Finances, standard weights and measures, and a single currency. He died of dysentery in 1322 leaving only daughters, succeeded by his brother Charles IV.