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  Généalogie de l'histoire de France - Louis VIII - Le Lion
Louis VIII - Le Lion (05/09/1187 - 08/11/1226)
Louis est battu à Lincoln en mai 1217 et doit renoncer à ses prétentions lors du traité de Lambeth en septembre 1217 où il obtient en contrepartie une forte somme d'argent.
Louis IX Roi de France (25/04/1214 - 25/08/1270)
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  Louis VIII of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis VIII the Lion (French: Louis VIII le Lion) (September 5, 1187 – November 8, 1226) reigned as King of France from 1223 to 1226.
Louis VIII was born in Paris, France, the son of Philip II of France and Isabelle of Hainaut.
The Saint Denis Basilica houses the tomb of Louis VIII.
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 LOUIS VIII. OF FRANCE - LoveToKnow Article on LOUIS VIII. OF FRANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1154 Louis married Constance, daughter of the king of Castile, and their daughter Marguerite he affianced imprudently by the treaty of Gisors (1158) to Henry, eldest son of the king of England, promising as dowry the Vexin and Gisors.
Louis made a similar compromise with the king of Aragon in the treaty of Corbeil, 1258, whereby he gave up the claims of kings of France to Roussillon and Barcelona, which went back to the conquest of Charlemagne.
Louis was more successful in preventing feuds between his own nobles: between the counts of Brittany and Champagne over the succession to Navarre; the dauphin of Vienne (Guigues VII.) and Charles of Anjou; the count of Burgundy and the count of Chalons; Henry of Luxemburg and the duke of Lorraine with the count of Bar.
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 Encyclopedia: Louis IX of France
Saint Isabel of France (March, 1225 – 23 February 1270) was the daughter of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile, and brother of Louis IX of France.
Louis' patronage of the arts drove much innovation in Gothic art and architecture, and the style of his court radiated throughout Europe by both the purchase of art objects from Parisian masters for export and by the marriage of the king's many daughters to foreign husbands and their subsequent introduction of Parisian models elsewhere.
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.
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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.
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 28th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Louis Capet VIII, King of France "The Lion-heart" was born 5 Sep 1187 in Paris, France and married 23 May 1200 in Pont-Audemer (Beaumont), Normandy.
She was the wife of Louis VIII of France, mother of Louis IX (St. Louis), and twice regent of France (from 1226 to 1234 and from 1248 to 1252), who by wars and marital alliances did much to secure and unify French territories.
Her husband, who became Louis VIII in 1223, took part in a crusade against the Cathari but suffered a fatal attack of dysentery upon returning to the north of France in 1226.
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 King St. Louis IX
Louis was the son of Louis VIII Capet of France.
Herself the daughter of a king, Alfonso VIII of Castile, Blanche saw to it that her son was educated in government.
King Louis lived in the days of the crusades; and for him, chivalrous as he was by nature, there was no nobler quest than to wrest from the hands of unbelievers the Holy Land sanctified by Jesus' death.
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 Sly's Thirteenth Century TimeLine
Louis IX succeeds his father as king of France (age 12), with his mother Blanche of Castile ruling as regent during his minority.
Louis IX of France and the crusaders capture the Egyptian seaport of Damiette.
Louis IX of France and his forces are captured in Egypt, while trying to attack Cairo.
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 Louis IX King France (25 Apr 1214 - 25 Aug 1270)
Louis IX King Of France or Saint Louis was the leader of two crusades.
Louis increased royal power at the expense of the nobles, but he won their respect by being fair and just.
Louis was cannonized by Pope Boniface VIII in 1297.
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 The Saintonge War (July 1242)
King Louis IX (Saint Louis) of France held a plenary court at Samur in Anjou, in June 1241.
Louis IX used this event to announce his intention to invested his younger brother, Alfonso, comted de Poitiers, with fiefs thier father (Louis VIII of France) had held.
King Louis IX's struggle with the English king Henry III must also be seen in context with the on-going events of the Albigsenian Crusades at the time.
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 BLANCHE OF CASTILE - LoveToKnow Article on BLANCHE OF CASTILE   (Site not responding. Last check: )
of France, third daughter of Alphonso VIII., king of Castile, and of Eleanor of England, daughter of Henry II., was born at Valencia.
In consequence of a treaty between Philip Augustus and John of England, she was betrothed to the formers son, Louis, and was brought to France, in the spring of I 200, by Johns mother Eleanor.
St Louis owed his realm to his mother, but he himself always remained somewhat under the spell of her imperious personality.
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 Louis IX
Louis IX, King of France, known as Saint Louis, was born on the 25th of April 1214, and was baptized at Poissy.
Thus the reign of Louis IX began with royal prerogatives fully maintained; the kingdom was well under control, and Mauclerc and Thibaut were both obliged to go on crusade.
Louis IX did not lack independence of character, but his confidence in his mother had been amply justified and he always acted in her presence like a child.
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 Louis VIII
Louis VIII, King of France, eldest son of Philip Augustus and of Isabella of Hainaut, was born in Paris on the 5th of September 1187.
After the "Fair of Lincoln", in which his army was defeated, Louis was compelled to resign his pretensions, though by a secret article of the treaty of Lambeth (September 1217) he secured a small war indemnity.
Philip Augustus dying on the 14th of July 1223, Louis VIII was anointed at Reims on the 6th of August following.
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 Saint Louis of France - History   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Even though the two crusades he led were failures, it is a fact that Saint Louis was one of the bravest men of his time, a perfect example of the Medieval Knight who was fearless and full of honor.
Louis VIII died on November 7, 1226; Saint Louis was only 11, luckily his mother assumed the regency of the throne.
Louis refused to condemn Hugo de la Marche to death, even though he had joined forces with his father, arguing "a son can never disobey his father".
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 30TH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: )
King Louis VIII of FRANCE was born on 5 Sep 1187 in Paris, France (aka Louis the Lion) son of Philip Augustus.
Blanche (Blanca) of CASTILE Queen of France was born in 1185 in Burgos, Spain dtr of Alfonso IX of Castile.
Alphonse of FRANCE was born about 1218 in France - son of Louis VIII and Blanche.
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 Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc.
Louis VIII of France granted Artois to his son Robert, just as he granted Anjou to Charles (who became King of Naples and Sicily) and Portiers to Alphonse (who then also become Count of Toulouse).
Anjou was revived as a Duchy for Charles, the brother of King Louis IX of France, in 1246.
The daughter of Raymond VII was married to a son, Alphonse, of King Louis VIII of France.
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 26th Generation   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ferdinand was the son of Alfonso IX of Leon and Berenguela, daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile.
Johanna de Dammartin, Countess of Ponthieu and Aumâle "Joan of Ponthieu" was born 1216 in Abbeville, Somme département, Picardie région, France and married 1237.
Philip, the second son of Louis IX of France (Saint Louis), became heir to the throne on the death of his elder brother Louis in 1260.
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 July 14 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The phrase "Quatorze Juillet" (Fourteenth of July in French) has great significance in France as a reference to the celebration of the storming of the Bastille in 1789 during the French Revolution.
1223 - In France, Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.
1827 - The first Roman Catholic Mass is celebrated in the Hawaiian Islands by Fathers Abraham Armand and Alexis Bachelot of France and Patrick Short of the United Kingdom, members of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Henry III (of France)
Henry III (of France) (1551-1589), king of France (1574-1589), the last of the Valois kings.
Henry III (of England): annexation of territories in southwestern France
Louis IX, called St. Louis (1214-1270), king of France (1226-1270), son and successor of Louis VIII.
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 My Family
Parents: King Louis I of the Franks, Emperor of the West and Irmgarde (Ermengarde) of Hesbain.
Children were: King Phillip Capet of France, Louis VII of France, Bishop of Rouen Henry Capet ofBeauvais, Robert Capet Count of Dreux 1st, Philip Capet Bishop of Paris, Constance Capet of Toulouse.
Louis VII (The Young) Parents: King Louis VI of France and Adelaide de Maurienne of Savoy.
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During the Albigensian crusade, Louis VIII of France obtained it, and its liberty diminished under the house of Anjou.
France became more and more involved in its affairs in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but it was not until 1791 that Avignon was finally annexed to France.
The arms are a marshalling of the comté de Forcalquier, the Dauphiné and France ancient, this last symbolising the secession to the French crown in 1349.
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 1200 - 1300
Louis IX of France signs the Treaty of Corbeil, relinquishing to the kingdom of Aragón all French claims to Barcelona and Roussillon, in return for which the Aragonese renounced their claims to parts of Provence and Languedoc.
A judgement called Mise of Amiens is passed by Louis IX, King of France, who is called into arbitrate between Henry III and the barons.
Between 1294 and 1296, Philip IV of France (called The Fair) seizes Guienne (in southwest France) from Edward I of England.
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 My Family
Blanche of Castile,wife of Louis VIII of France was twice regent of France.
She was married to King Louis VIII of France in 1200.
She was married to King Robert II Capet of France (The Pious) in 998.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Urban VIII
In 1592 Clement VIII made him Governor of Fano, then prothonotary Apostolic, and in 1601 papal legate to France to present his felicitations to King Henry IV on the birth of the dauphin, the future King Louis XIII.
He refused to join the alliance which France had made with Venice and Savoy against Spain in 1624, and was instrumental in bringing about the Treaty of Monzon, 5 March, 1626, which gave equal rights upon the Valtellina to France and Spain.
He urged Louis XIII and Richelieu to desist from subsidizing the King of Sweden, but refused to excommunicate them, as he feared a repetition of what had occurred in England under Henry VIII and Elizabeth (Nunziatura di Germania, Cod.
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 Louis VIII, king of France. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
1187–1226, king of France (1223–26), son and successor of King Philip II.
Invited by English lords in rebellion against their king, John, to become king of England, he invaded (1216) England, although his action caused his excommunication by Pope Innocent III.
The death of John and the accession of Henry III as king of England lost Louis much support among the English nobility.
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 Blanche Of Castile --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
French Blanche De Castille, Spanish Blanca De Castilla wife of Louis VIII of France, mother of Louis IX (St. Louis), and twice regent of France (1226–34, 1248–52), who by wars and marital alliances did much to secure and unify French territories.
He was the dutiful son of Louis VIII and his queen, Blanche of Castile.
Louis IX had all the good qualities and few of the bad ones of the age in which he lived.
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 AllRefer.com - Philip II, king of France (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Allied (Nov., 1188) with Richard, the rebellious son of King Henry II of England, Philip compelled Henry to cede several territories to him.
In 1214, at Bouvines, the French defeated the allied forces of John, Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV, and the count of Flanders; it was a victory that established France as a leading European power.
When the English barons revolted against John (1215), they invited Philip's son Louis (later Louis VIII of France) to invade England and take the English throne; the venture failed.
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