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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Louis IX
		King of France, son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile, born at Poissy, 25 April, 1215; died near Tunis, 25 August, 1270.
		By this treaty St. Louis gave Henry III all the fiefs and domains belonging to the King of France in the Dioceses of Limoges, Cahors, and Périgueux; and in the event of Alphonsus of Poitiers dying without issue, Saintonge and Agenais would escheat to Henry III.
		In 1263, St. Louis was chosen as arbitrator in a difference which separated Henry III and the English barons: by the Dit d'Amiens (24 January, 1264) he declared himself for Henry III against the barons, and annulled the Provisions of Oxford, by which the barons had attempted to restrict the authority of the king.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09368a.htm (1638 words)

	King Louis IX
		Louis is often described as "one of the greatest of all French kings" because of his many accomplishments which included improving the tax system, simplifying administration, extending the appellate jurisdiction of the crown to all cases, encouraging the use of Roman Law, and building the first French navy.
		Louis was considered by his family, friends, French nobles, and religious men and women to be a deeply pious and honorable man. He took a special interest in charitable institutions, regarding his kingly duties as part of his Christian vocation.
		Louis was a devoted husband to his wife Margaret, and their 11 children, eight of whom lived to adulthood.
	www.st-louis.org /louis.htm (422 words)

	Wikinfo \| Louis VII of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A member of the Capetian Dynasty, Louis VII was born in 1120, the second son of Louis the Fat and Adélaide of Maurienne (c.1100-1154).
		In 1154 Louis married Constance, daughter of Alfonso VII, king of Castile, and their daughter Marguerite he pledged imprudently in the treaty of Gisors (1158) to Henry, eldest son of the king of England, promising as a dowry, Vexin and Gisors.
		Louis VII died on November 18, 1180 at the Abbey at Saint-Pont, Allier and is interred in Saint Denis Basilica.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Louis_VII_of_France (940 words)

	Louis XI, king of France. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Louis began his reign by dismissing many of his father’s best advisers; but he soon deserted his former allies of the Praguerie and began the task of centralizing all authority in the crown.
		Louis, however, succeeded in buying off Edward IV when he invaded (1475) France to aid Charles, and in uniting the enemies of Charles the Bold, among whom the Swiss were the strongest.
		Louis preferred men of humble origin, and among his advisers were Olivier Le Daim, Louis Tristan L’Hermite, and Cardinal Balue, whom he rewarded liberally, though he was niggardly in his own expenses.
	www.bartleby.com /65/lo/Louis11Fr.html (647 words)

	Historical Figures - Louis XIV Of France
		The legal argument Louis had made was that the custom of Brabant required that a child should not suffer from his or her father's remarriage.
		Louis claimed that the territories ceded to him in previous treaties ought to be ceded along with all their dependencies and all lands which had formerly belonged to them, but had separated over the years.
		Louis was in the process of reinforcing the traditional Gallicanism, a doctrine limiting the authority of the Pope in France.
	www.dailypast.com /historical-figures/louis-14-2.shtml (1143 words)

	Louis XIV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Richelieu died in 1642 and Louis XIII followed him to the grave a few months later, leaving to others the task of completing their work, The great cardinal was replaced by an Italian adventurer named Mazarin (1602-1661), who was also a prince of the Church.
		Louis was only of medium height and could scarcely have been called handsome, but he possessed a natural dignity and a commanding appearance that left no one in doubt that he was every inch a king.
		Louis curbed the authority of the local royal officials who purchased or inherited their offices and of the elected town officials by expanding the duties of the intendant.
	mars.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/louisxiv.html (2208 words)

	Louis XI of France
		Louis XI (142383), king of France (146183), son and successor of Charles VII, who continued his father's work of restoring unity and stability to France after the ravages of the Hundred Years' War.
		Louis was born in Bourges on July 3, 1423.
		Louis was known as The Spider because of his ugliness and the skill with which he maneuvered against his enemies.
	www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu /antillians/louisxi.html (301 words)

	BIO: Agnes of Rome / Louis XVI of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Louis was born in 1754, third son of the dauphin (the Crown Prince,son of Louis XV), and thus in his early years not expected to inherit the throne.
		Vincent Cronin, LOUIS AND ANTOINETTE (New York, William Morrow and Co., 1975) Padover tends to be unfavorable to Louis, while Cronin tends to be favorable.
		Louis was troubled, torn between his conscience as a Catholic, which told him that the measure was indefensible, and his conscience as a constitutional monarch, which told him that it was his duty to carry out the will of the people as expressed through the National Assembly.
	www.hillsdale.edu /personal/westblade/rel/biography/01/21b.html (1835 words)

	The Execution of Louis XVI, 1793 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Louis XVI, king of France, arrived in the wrong historical place at the wrong time and soon found himself overwhelmed by events beyond his control.
		Ascending the throne in 1774, Louis inherited a realm driven nearly bankrupt through the opulence of his predecessors Louis XIV and XV.
		The carriage proceeded thus in silence to the Place de Louis XV, and stopped in the middle of a large space that had been left round the scaffold: this space was surrounded with cannon, and beyond, an armed multitude extended as far as the eye could reach.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /louis.htm (798 words)

	Louisville.cc - King Louis XVI of France
		The statue of King Louis ("Loo-ee") the 16th of France that stands outside the Jefferson County Courthouse in downtown Louisville is 175 years old in 2004.
		Marie-Therese was the offspring of King Louis XVI of France and Marie-Antoinette of Austria, who had married to combine their empires.
		Louis the 16th's younger brothers also became king after the French Revolution, Louis the 18th, and Charles the 10th.
	www.louisville.cc /people/louis-xvi.html (466 words)

	St. Louis of France
		Louis gave encouragement to the religious orders, installing the Carthusians in the palace of Vauvert in Paris, and assisting his mother in founding the convent of Maubuisson.
		Louis sailed with his forces from Aigues-Mortes, at the mouth of the Rhone, on July 1, 1270, heading for Tunis, where, he had been told, the emir was ready to be converted and join the expedition to win back the Holy Places.
		Louis was strong, idealistic, austere, just; his charities and foundations were notable, and he went on two crusades.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/LOUIS.htm (3291 words)

	Wikinfo \| Louis VIII of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Louis VIII, The Lion (1187 - 1226), a member of the Capetian dynasty, was King of France from 1223 to 1226.
		In May of 1216, Prince Louis of France and his army invaded England, but after a year and a half of war, Louis was forced to give up on his desire to become the King of England and signed the Treaty of Lambeth.
		Louis succeeded his father on July 14, 1223 and was crowned king on August 6 of the same year in the cathedral at Reims.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Louis_VIII_of_France (367 words)

	Louis of France
		LOUIS IX Louis was born in 1214 and became King of France when twelve years old.
		Louis worked for the political unification of France, yielding Limoge, Cahors, and Perigeux to Henry in exchange for Henry's renunciation of all claims to Normandy, Anjou, Maine, Touraine, and Poitou (Treaty of Paris, 1259).
		Disease ravaged the camp, and in 1250 the army suffered a disastrous defeat at Mansurah and Louis himself was taken prisoner.
	www.satucket.com /lectionary/Louis.htm (642 words)

	Louis XVI, king of France
		Louis XVI, 1754–93, king of France (1774–92), third son of the dauphin (Louis) and Marie Josèphe of Saxony, grandson and successor of King Louis XV.
		Louis ordered the estates to meet and vote separately, but he was forced (June 27, 1789) to yield and allow the estates to sit together and vote by head.
		Louis was forced to accept the constitution of 1791, which limited his power, but preserved the royal veto and his power to appoint ministers.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0830398.html (824 words)

	Louis XVI - France.com
		Louis himself was very popular and not unobliging to the social, political and economic reforms of the Revolution, but the bad influence of his wife in politics caused him to reject the principles of the Revolution.
		On June 21, 1791 Louis attempted to flee secretly from France to Germany with his family, but on the way they were recognized at Varennes and captured by the revolutionaries.
		Louis was arrested (August 10), tried (from December 11) and convicted of treason before the National Assembly.
	www.france.com /docs/87.html (513 words)

	Royalty.nu - French Royal History - Louis XIV, King of France
		Louis XIV and the French Monarchy by Andrew Lossky and Marie-Ellias Lossky.
		Louis XIV and the Parlements: The Assertion of Royal Authority by John Jeter Hurt.
		The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV by Anne Somerset.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/France/LouisXIV.html (3075 words)

	St Louis IX of France
		Louis IX King of France, son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile, born at Poissy, 25 April, 1215; died near Tunis, 25 August, 1270.
		Louis gave Henry III all the fiefs and domains belonging to the King of France in the Dioceses of Limoges, Cahors, and Périgueux; and in the event of Alphonsus of Poitiers dying without issue, Saintonge and Agenais would escheat to Henry III.
		Louis to have been above all a lover of peace, a king who desired not only to put an end to conflicts, but also to remove the causes for fresh wars, and this spirit of peace rested upon the Christian conception.
	www.maxwell.syr.edu /maxpages/classes/His311/StLouisIXofFrance.html (1606 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Constance of Brittany and Gerald of Wales on Louis VII of France, 1160
		Medieval Sourcebook: Constance of Brittany and Gerald of Wales on Louis VII of France, 1160
		Constance of Brittany and Gerald of Wales on Louis VII of France
		When Louis, king Philip's son, (the future Louis VIII, 1223-8) had long been engaged upon his English invasion, his knights began to be afraid that the absence of his wife, who remained in France, and the lack of a conjugal bed would exhaust the young man's spirit for a long campaign.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/hyams-louisvii.html (768 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Louis IX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Son of King Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile.
		King of France at age eleven; his mother ruled as regent until he reached 22, and he reigned for 44 years.
		Promoted Christianity in France; established religious foundations, aided mendicant orders, propagated synodal decrees of the Church, built leper hospitals, and collected relics.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintl07.htm (497 words)

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		The Philosophy of St. Louis King of France is the foundation upon which our educational program is built.
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	Saint Louis, King of France
		Saint Louis - Basilica of St. Louis King of France [Photo by Phyllis Mees]
		King of France, son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile, born at Poissy, April 25, 1215.
		It was one of St. Louis's chief characteristics to carry on abreast his administration as national sovereign and the performance of his duties towards Christendom.
	www.wf-f.org /StLouis.html (1552 words)

	Church of Saint Louis, King of France
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