Bourbon monarchs then united to France the part of the Kingdom of Navarre north of the Pyrenees, which Henry's father had acquired by marriage in 1555, ruling both until the 1792 overthrow of the monarchy during the French Revolution. Under the Salic law, the head of the house of Bourbon, as the senior representative of the senior-surviving branch of the Capetian dynasty, became King of France as Henry IV. In 1589, at the death of Henry III of France, the House of Valois became extinct in the male line. This made the junior Bourbon-Vendôme branch the genealogically senior branch of the House of Bourbon. The senior line of the House of Bourbon became extinct in the male line in 1527 with the death of Duke Charles III of Bourbon. The house continued for three centuries as a cadet branch, serving as nobles under the direct Capetian and Valois kings.
The royal Bourbons originated in 1272, when Robert, the youngest son of King Louis IX of France, married the heiress of the lordship of Bourbon. Spain and Luxembourg have monarchs of the House of Bourbon. By the 18th century, members of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty held thrones in Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma. Bourbon kings first ruled France and Navarre in the 16th century. The House of Bourbon ( English: / ˈ b ʊər b ən/, also UK: / ˈ b ɔːr b ɒ n/ French: ) is a European dynasty of French origin, a branch of the Capetian dynasty, the royal House of France. Two Sicilies, 1861: Italian unification.Parma, 1859: Annexation by Kingdom of Sardinia.
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