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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Louis IX of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 X. is a somewhat indistinct figure among the kings of France, the preponderating influence at court during his short reign being that of his uncle, Charles of Valois.
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.
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 LOUIS X. OF FRANCE - LoveToKnow Article on LOUIS X. OF FRANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
His return to France was urgently needed, as Blanche of Castile, whom he had left as regent, had died in November 1252, and upon the removal of her strong hand feudal turbulence had begun to show itself.
If, as has been claimed, Louis owed to them any of his tendency to prefer the society of the poor, or rather of the bourgeois, to that of the nobility, their example was his best lesson in the craft of kingship.
Louis began his rebellious career by a futile attempt to seduce the cities of Agenais into treason, and then he prepared a plot to seize the king and his minister Pierre de Br6ze.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Leo X
A lampoon proclaimed that "Leo X had consumed three pontificates; the treasure of Julius II, the revenues of his own reign, and those of his successor." It is proper, however, to pay full credit to the good qualities of Leo.
France desired to wreak vengeance for the defeat of 1512 and to reconquer Milan.
He concluded with the warning that if Leo X left such offences longer unpunished and refused to apply healing remedies to these wounds of the Church, it was to be feared that God Himself would cut off the rotten limbs and destroy them with fire and sword.
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 LOUIS X - Online Information article about LOUIS X
LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0.
Louis X. is a somewhat indistinct figure among the See also:
French fiefs were declared confiscate by a court of his peers.
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 Louis X, king of France
His reign was dominated by his uncle, Charles of Valois, and was distinguished by his concessions to the barons in the form of charters.
Louis le Hutin - Louis le Hutin: see Louis X, king of France.
The crusades of St Louis.(King Louis IX of France)(includes bibliography)
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