In what year was the States General convened in France?

Answer – 1302 The ruler of France, the first to go to the convocation of an estate-representative institution, was Philip IV the Handsome. The meetings took place during the period of active conflict between the French monarch and Boniface VIII, the then Pope of Rome. Representatives of the nobility and urban strata who attended the event showed their support for the royal state policy. Later, the states were convened at critical moments when the French rulers needed the help of the estates.