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After the direct Valois line ended in 1498, what royal houses succeeded as rulers of France?

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The direct Valois line ended (1498) with Charles VIII; the dynasty was continued by Louis XII (Valois-Orléans) and, after his death (1515), by the Valois-Angoulême line, of which Francis I was the first to rule.

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