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| | brief history of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | During the 13th century, it absorbed: Normandy, Maine, Anjou, Languedoc (Toulouse), Poitou, Touraine, Marche, and Auvergne; during the 14th century: Blois, Saintonge, Angoumois, Perigord, Limousin, Aquitaine, Dauphiné, and Arles (Provence). |
 | | French kings Louis VII (1137-1180), Philip Augustus (1180-1223), and Louis IX The Saint (1226-1270) participated in the Crusades (Crusader States). |
 | | French interest, represented by Simon de Montfort, was primarily in annexing Languedoc, then under Raymond VI, and that was ultimately the end result when Raymond VII of Toulouse (1222-1249), Peter II of Aragón having been defeated by Montfort (1213), agreed to honorable terms of surrender (1229). |
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