 Charles attempted to get both to leave Paris to no avail.On 31 December 1578 he was made the first commander in the Order of the Holy Spirit.When the duke of Alençon and Anjou died childless in 1584 while King Henry III of France was also still childless it was clear that the house of Valois would come to an end with the death of the king and the succession to the French throne would then pass to the house of Bourbon-Vendôme who were descended from Louis IX.