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  Louis XIII of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis XIII in full military regalia, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1622-25: On a ribbon at his hip is the Cross of the Order of Saint Esprit
Under Louis XIII, the Habsburgs were humiliated, a powerful navy was built, the French nobility was firmly kept in line behind their king, and the special privileges granted to the Huguenots by his father were canceled.
In foreign matters, Louis XIII organized the development and administration of New France, expanding the settlement of Quebec westward along the Saint Lawrence River from Quebec City to Montreal.
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 Louis XIII of France
Louis XIII of France was born in 1601 and died in 1643.
Louis was the son of Henry IV and Marie de Medici.
Louis and Anne spent years living apart, and the birth of their son, the future Louis XIV, surprised many but was the result of a rare night spent together.
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 Louis XIV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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.
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 Louis XIII of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born at the Château de Fontainebleau, Louis was thefirst child of Henri IV and Marie de Médicis.
Under Louis XIII, the Hapsburgs were humiliated, a powerful navy was built,the French nobility was firmly kept in line behind their king, and the special privileges granted to the Huguenots by his father were canceled.
Inforeign matters, Louis XIII organized the development and administration of NewFrance, expanding the settlement of Quebec westward along the Saint Lawrence River from Quebec City to Montreal.
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 Louis XIV
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.
After the deaths of Richelieu (1642) and Louis XIII (1643), Mazarin was the principal minister of the regent Anne of Austria.
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Louis XIV
Louis XIV claimed, in 1673 and again in 1675, that the right of régale was his in all bishoprics of the kingdom.
Louis, on 14 September, 1693, declared that, to show his veneration for the pope, he ordered the declaration of 1682 to be held without effect in regard to religious policy.
Lastly, at the end of his reign, Louis ordered a new inquiry into the causes and the persistence of the heresy, and decreed, by the declaration of 8 March, 1715, that all Protestants who had continued to reside in the kingdom since 1685 were liable to the penalties of relapsed heretics unless they became Catholics.
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 Louis XIII and religion
Louis XIII inherited a difficult situation with regards to religion.
Louis took the advice of Luynes who believed that internal security and stability was needed if France was to embark on a successful foreign policy.
Louis, therefore, agreed to the Peace of Montpellier in October 1622 which upheld the Treaty of Nantes (1598).
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 Louis XIII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Queen Mother was regent until Louis came of age in 1614; but she continued to govern for three years thereafter.
Louis exiled his mother to Blois; and in 1619-20 she raised two unsuccessful rebellions.
Although Richelieu (not yet a cardinal), her principal adviser, reconciled her to Louis in August 1620, the relationship between the King and his mother remained one of thinly disguised hostility.
www.louis-xiv.de /louisold/Family/LouisXIII.html   (626 words)

  
 glbtq >> social sciences >> Louis XIII
The son of Henry IV (1553-1610; reigned 1589-1610) and Marie de Medici (1573-1642), Louis XIII was born on September 26, 1601.
Louis had two female favorites during his reign, Marie de Hautefort, from 1630 to 1639, and Angélique de La Fayette from 1635 to 1637, but these relationships were entirely chaste and platonic.
Louis XIII's reign is remembered principally for the activity of his longtime prime minister, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585-1642), who enjoyed the king's confidence and support from April 1624 until his death in December 1642.
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 Anne of Austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The eldest daughter of King Philip III of Spain and Margaret of Austria, Anne was married to the 14-year-old Louis XIII in November 1615.
Her status at court was enhanced, however, by the birth of her two sons, the dauphin Louis (the future Louis XIV) in 1638, and Philippe (later duc d'Orléans) in 1640.
Louis XIII died in May 1643, and shortly thereafter Anne had the will annulled by the Parlement of Paris.
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 Olivier THILL. Book review. L'enfant Louis XIII. Madeleine Foisil.
Louis XIII's wet nurses are: From Sep. 1601 to Dec. 27, 1601, Catherine Hotman, with Mme Lemaire from Oct. 19,1601.
Louis XII is the king, but it is his mother Marie de Medicis who has the power, and who is governing with the Maréchal d'Ancre, Concini, assisted by Barbin, Mangot, and Richelieu.
Louis XIII is married to Anne d'Autriche in 1614.
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 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.
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 Louis XIII le Juste (1601-1643)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
XIII de faire entrer au Conseil le cardinal de Richelieu, qui jouissait d’une grande réputation malgré ses liens passés avec Concini.
XIII et de Richelieu à affirmer l’autorité royale contre toutes les velléités d’opposition.
La naissance d’un héritier, le futur Louis XIV (1638), et la conspiration du favori du roi, Cinq-Mars, et de son ami François-Auguste de Thou, qui avaient comploté avec Gaston d’Orléans, furent les derniers événements majeurs du règne.
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 Louis Xiii Of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The government of Louis XIII understood the danger; then around 1625, the captains of...
Louis XIII (September 27 1601 - May 14 1643) was King of France from 1610 to 1643.
Born at the Château de Fontainebleau, Louis was the first child of Henri IV and Marie de Médicis.
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 Louis XIII
Louis XIII was born on the 27th of September in 1601 at Fontainebleau Palace.
Louis XIII was regarded handsome, even though he had inherited the 'Austrian lip' from his mother.
Louis XIII and Richelieu were very close and no-one could say who was master in France.
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 The minority of Louis XIII
Louis XIII was only nine years old when he succeeded to the throne and this necessitated a regency.
It was she who arranged Louis' marriage to Anne, daughter of Philip III, and her daughter Elizabeth's marriage to Philip's son (later Philip IV).
The young Louis XIII had shown no resentment of his mother's grip on power, and spent most of his time hunting and hawking.
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 Louis XIII of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His mother along Cardinal Richelieu acted as Regent for the minor Louis until he the age of sixteen when Louis took reins of government into his own hands.
Under Louis XIII the Hapsburgs were humiliated a powerful navy was the French nobility was firmly kept in behind their king and the special privileges to the Huguenots by his father were canceled.
In foreign matters Louis XIII the development and administration of New France expanding the settlement of Quebec westward along the Saint Lawrence River from Quebec City to Montreal.
www.freeglossary.com /Louis_XIII_of_France   (702 words)

  
 Louis, XIII Biography / Biography of Louis, XIII Biography Biography
Louis XIII (1601-1643) was king of France from 1610 to 1643.
Born in Fontainebleau on Sept. 16, 1601, Louis XIII was the eldest of the six children of Henry IV and Marie de Médicis.
She planned marriages to unite Louis with Anna of Hapsburg (Anne of Austria), daughter of Philip III of S.....
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 Louis XIII of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Louis XIII his wife Anne and Cardinal all became central figures in Alexandre Dumas ' novel The Three Musketeers.
This proves to be an excellent biography on Louis XIII who usually don't get too much attention by historians since he was often totally overshadowed by Cardinal Richelieu or by his heir, Louis XIV.
For anyone mildly interested in the France during this period of Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu, this book will probably be first on your list to read.
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 Louis XIII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Louis XIII became king of France in 1610 when his father, King Henry IV, was assassinated.
In 1635, Louis declared war on Spain, leading France into the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) against the royal Habsburg (or Hapsburg) family of Spain and Austria.
Louis XIII was born in Fontainebleau, France, in 1601.
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 Louis XIIIth seat. Needlepoint History and Museum of Tapestries reproductions
LOUIS XIIIth SEATS FURNITURE STYLE It's in 1636 that the word armchair was used for the first time to name the "chaise à bras".
The entanglement of forms is one of the characteristic of the Louis XIII style.
0504H LXIII.Back of armchair Louis XIII that presents a magnificent greenery whose the center is occupied by a beautiful bird of islands to radiant colors.
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 Louis XIII - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Louis XIII
He was the son of a banker at Lyons named Particelli, who, after becoming a bankrupt, chose to change his name to Emery; and Cardinal Richelieu having discovered in him great financial aptitude, had introduced him with a strong recommendation to Louis XIII.
Claude Gaspard Bachet de Mezeriac, who declined the honor of being tutor to Louis XIII of France, from his desire to devote himself exclusively to literature.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Louis XIV the Sun King
Louis XIV was born at the Royal chateau in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1638.
In 1660, Louis XIV married Maria Theresa, Infanta of Spain.
Finally, Louis encouraged an extraordinary blossoming of culture: theatre (Molière and Racine), music (Lully), architecture, painting, sculpture, and all the sciences (founding of the royal academies).
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 European State Finance Database
Louis XIII also discharged some royal expenditure himself and accounted to no-one for it.
Louis XIII and Richelieu appointed only five surintendants in all - Bochart de Champigny, Marillac, d'Effiat, Bullion and Bouthillier, of whom the last two served for the longest period, just over eight years (1632-40; Bouthillier remained sole surintendant until June 1643).
Consumption of salt and other commodities fell with the subsistence crisis of 1628-31 and the economic dislocation resulting from France's entry into the Thirty Years' war; substantial remissions had to be accorded to the revenue farmers to prevent bankruptcy and the abandonment of their leases, and this proved to be the pattern in the 1640s.
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 Louis XIII --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
His mother was regent until 1614 but continued to govern until 1617; she arranged Louis's marriage to the Spanish Anne of Austria in 1615.
In 1624 Louis made Richelieu his principal minister, and the two cooperated closely to make France a leading European power, consolidating royal authority in France and fighting to break the dominant rule of the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs in the Thirty Years' War.
Louis was succeeded by his son Louis XIV.
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 AllRefer.com - Louis XIII, king of France (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Louis XIII, king of France, French History, Biographies
Melancholy and retiring by nature, Louis thenceforth gave full support to Richelieu and his successor, Cardinal Mazarin.
See V. TapiE, La France de Louis XIII et de Richelieu (1952); H. Chapman, Privileged Persons (1966).
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 Louis Xiii, the Just: A. Lloyd Moote Irish & Celtic Books at An Irish Christmas.com
This 1989 biography, the first to appear in English, is the finest work on Louis XIII which I have read in twenty years' study.
But this well written and easy to read biography, the author showed the Louis XIII was an equal if not a controlling element of a partnership that grew between him and Cardinal Richelieu.
Louis XIII and his chief-minister Richelieu formed a terrible but effective pair aimed at constructing a solid...
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 Louis XIII style --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Louis was but a child when he ascended the throne in 1610, and his mother, Marie de Médicis, assumed the powers of regent.
More results on "Louis XIII style" when you join.
The reign of Louis XIII, covering most of the first half of the 17th century, was a time of transition.
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