Louis X of France dies after cold drink

January 1316

The Quarrelsome King collapsed after playing a strenuous game of jeu de paume and downing cold wine in a Vincennes cellar. He was twenty-six. His sudden death may have been caused by pleurisy or pneumonia aggravated by exertion. He left a pregnant widow; the baby born posthumously was a boy who died in five days. French succession convulsions began in earnest.