Sixteen popes have had French ancestry, all in the second half of the medieval era. The seven popes of the Avignon papacy were French (numbers 10-16 below in bold). French is the most common non-Italian papal ancestry.

1. Pope Silvester II, 999-1003: Gerbert of Aurillac.
2. Pope Stephen X, 1057-1058: Frederick of Lorraine.
3. Pope Nicholas II, 1058-1061: Gerard of Burgundy.
4. Bl. Pope Urban II, 1088-1099: Otho of Lagery (or Otto or Odo).
5. Pope Callistus II, 1119-1124: Guido of Vienne.
6. Pope Urban IV, 1261-1264: Jacques Pantaléon.
7. Pope Clement IV, 1265-1268: Guy Foulques.
8. Bl. Pope Innocent V, 1276: Pierre de Tarentaise.
9. Pope Martin IV, 1281-1285: Simon de Brie.
10. Pope Clement V, 1305-1314: Bertrand de Got.
11. Pope John XXII, 1316-1334: Jacques d'Euse.
12. Pope Benedict XII, 1334-1342: Jacques Fournier.
13. Pope Clement VI, 1342-1352: Pierre Roger.
14. Pope Innocent VI, 1352-1362: Stephen Aubert.
15. Bl. Pope Urban V, 1362-1370: Guillaume de Grimoard.
16. Pope Gregory XI, 1370-1378: Pierre Roger de Beaufort.