Louis VIII CAPET, Roi de France

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• Royal House: ; Capet
• Name: The Lion
• ACCEDED: 1223
• RULED: Between 1223 and 1226, King Of France
• Title: 1223; King of France
• Title (Nobility): Between 14 Jul 1223 and 8 Nov 1226; King of France

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Louis VIII the Lion, was the son of Philip II Augustus, King of the Franks and Isabelle of Hainaut. Louis was the King of France from 1223 to 1226 and a member of the house of Capet, as he was a direct descendant of Hughes Capet circa 940? 996.

His mother died in 1190, giving birth to twins sons, and Louis inherited her dowry and the title of Count of Artois, which he held until his father died, and the title reverted to the crown when Louis became King of France in 1223.

After lengthy negotiations between his father, Phillip, King of France and John Lackland, King of England, and as a condition of the Treaty of Le Goulet between these two, Louis was married on 23 May 1200, at the age of 12, to Richard's sister's daughter, Blanche of Castile, also 12 at the time and born in Spain. Her grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitane, would cross the Pyrenees, bringing the girl from Spain to France. The marriage was finally consummated in 1205 and Blanche would bear the first of thirteen children.

When the English Barons rebelled against King John Lackland of England, they offered the throne to Louis, who was able to land at the Isle of Thanet with an army in May of 1216 and march to London with very little resistance. There, Louis was proclaimed king by his supporters, including King Alexander II of Scotland. Louis captured Winchester in June, but when King John died in October, the barons turned their favors to John's son, Henry III, even though he was only nine years old. English forces led by William Marshall finally forced Louis to the Treaty of Lambeth in September of 1217, Louis promising not to attack England, agreeing that he really never was king, and Louis was given a compensation of 10,000 marks.

King Philip died on July 14, 1223, Louis was coronated August 6th at the cathedral at Reims. Louis would continue to battle his father's enemies, resulting in the capture of Avignon and Languedoc, yet he reversed his father's ruling of usury for Jews, creating havoc for both the church and the barons who were in disagreement as some were profiting from the lending. The conflicts would continue until Louis's death on November 8th, 1226 during his travels from the chateau at Montpensier, Puy-de-Dome Auvergne back to Paris. His son, Louis IX succeeded him on the throne.

The children of Louis and Blanche were:
Blanche 1205-1206
Agnes 1207-1207
Philip 1209-1218, betrothed to Agnes of Donzy
Alphonse, twin 1213-1213
John, twin 1213-1213
Louis 1214-1270, King of France
Robert Artois 1216-1250, killed in battle in Egypt
Philip 1218-1220
John Tristan 1219-1232, Count of Anjou and Maine
Alphonse 1220-1271 Count of Poitou and Avergne, Count of Toulouse thru marriage
Philip Dagobert 1222-1232
St Isabelle 1225-1269
Charles Stephen 1226-1285 Count of Anjou and Maine, Provence and King of Sicily

Louis married Blanche DE CASTILLA, Reine de France on 23 May 1200 in Pont-Audemer, Eure, Normandy, France. Blanche (daughter of King Alfonso "The Noble" SANCHEZ, VIII and Queen Alianor "Eleanor" PLANTAGENET) was born on 4 Mar 1188 in Palencia, Castilla y Le?n, Spain; died on 27 Nov 1252 in Palais du Louvre, Paris, France; was buried on 7 Dec 1253 in Maubuisson, Gironde, Aquitaine-Pyr?n?es (R?gion Moderne), France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Blanche DE FRANCE was born in 1205 in Paris, Ile-De-France, France; died in 1206 in Paris, ?le-de-France, France.
2. Prince of France Philippe DE FRANCE was born on 7 Sep 1209 in France; died in Jun 1218 in Paris, ?le-de-France, France; was buried in 1218 in Paris, City of Paris, ?le-de-France, France.
3. Alphonse was born on 26 Jan 1213 in Lorrez-le-Bocage, Seine-et-Marne, ?le-de-France, France; was christened in 1213 in Paris France Temple, Le Chesnay, Yvelines, ?le-de-France, France; died on 26 Jan 1213 in Lorrez-le-Bocage.
4. Jean was born on 26 Jan 1213 in Lorrez-le-Bocage; died on 26 Jan 1213 in Lorrez-le-Bocage.
5. Louis IX CAPET, Roi de France was born on 25 Apr 1214 in Castle Of Poissy; died on 25 Aug 1270 in Carthage, Tunisia, Africa; was buried in 1270 in Saint-Denis, ?le-de-France, France.
6. Count Robert CAPET, Of Artois was born in Sep 1216 in Paris, Seine, Ile-DE-France, France; died on 8 Feb 1249-1250 in Egypt.
7. Jean DE FRANCE, Count of Anjou and Maine was born on 21 Jul 1219 in Poissy, Yvelines, ?le-de-France, France; died in 1232 in France; was buried in Notre Dame, Poissy, Seine-et-Oise, France.
8. Count Alphonse CAPET, Of Poiters And Toulouse was born in 1220; died on 21 Aug 1271.
9. Philippe Dagobert DE FRANCE was born on 20 Feb 1222 in Paris, Isle de France; died in 1232 in Paris, ?le-de-France, France; was buried in 1232 in Seine-Saint-Denis, ?le-de-France, France.
10. Isabella von FRANKREICH was born on 3 Mar 1224 in Paris, France; was christened in Mar 1224 in Temple de Paris, Le Chesnay, Yvelines, ?le-de-France, Francia; died on 23 Feb 1270 in Abbaye Royale De Longchamp, ?le-De-France, France; was buried in 1270 in Abbaye Royale De Longchamp, ?le-De-France, France.
11. Stephan von FRANKREICH was born in 1225 in , ?le-de-France, Francia; was christened in 1225 in ?le-De-France, Frankreich; died in 1227 in Paris, Seine, France, France; was buried in 1225 in ?le-De-France, Frankreich.
12. King Charles CAPET, Of Anjou & Naples was born in Mar 1225-1226; died on 7 Jan 1284-1285.

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• ACCEDED: 1180, France
• RULED: Between 1180 and 1223, King Of France

King married Isabelle DE HAINAUT, Reine de France on 28 Apr 1180 in Bapaume, Pas-DE-Calais, France. Isabelle was born on 5 Apr 1170 in Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; was christened in in Hainaut (Bailliage), Belgium; died on 15 Mar 1190 in Paris, ?le-de-France, France; was buried on 27 Mar 1190 in Notre Dame, Paris, ?le-de-France France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: The Younger
• _UID: 4D513476B8F04A8E86A7915F637946AEB56A
• ACCEDED: 1137
• RULED: Between 1137 and 1180, King Of France

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byname LOUIS THE YOUNGER, French LOUIS LE JEUNE, Capetian king of France who pursued a long rivalry, marked by recurrent warfare and continuous intrigue, with Henry II of England.
In 1131 Louis was anointed as successor to his father, Louis VI, and in 1137 he became the sole ruler at his father's death. Louis married Eleanor, daughter of William X, duke of Aquitaine, in 1137, a few days before his effective rule began, and he thus temporarily extended the Capetian lands to the Pyrenees. Louis continued his father's pacification program by building the prestige of the kingship through an administrative government based on trustworthy men of humble origin and by consolidating his rule over his royal domains rather than by adding new acquisitions. From 1141 to 1143 he was involved in a fruitless conflict with Count Thibaut of Champagne and the papacy. But thereafter his relations with the popes were good; Alexander II, whom he supported against Frederick Barbarossa, took refuge in France. But the major threat to his reign came from Geoffrey, count of Anjou and, briefly, of Normandy, and Geoffrey's son Henry, who later (1154) became King Henry II of England as well as ruler of both Anjou and Normandy. After Louis repudiated his wife Eleanor for misconduct on March 21, 1152, she married Henry, who then took over control of Aquitaine. Ironically, this act was probably to Capetian advantage because Aquitaine might have drained the resources of Louis's kingdom while bringing him little revenue. After the death of Louis's second wife, he married Alix of Champagne, whose Carolingian blood brought added prestige to the monarchy (1160); their son became Philip II Augustus.

Louis might have defeated Henry if he had made concerted attacks rather than weak assaults on Normandy in 1152. Anglo-Norman family disputes saved Louis's kingdom from severe incursions during the many conflicts that Louis had with Henry between 1152 and 1174. Louis was helped by the quarrel (1164-70) between Henry and Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, and a revolt (1173-74) of Henry's sons. Suger, abbot of Saint-Denis, who acted as regent in 1147-49 while Louis was away on the Second Crusade, is the primary historian for Louis's reign.

Louis married Queen Adelaide Alix De BLOIS on 13 Nov 1160 in Blois Loir-Et-Cher, France. Adelaide (daughter of Theobalk (Thibald) IV "The Great", Count Of Blois) was born about 1140 in Blois Loir-Et-Cher, France; died on 4 Jun 1206 in Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• TitleOfNobility: ; King of France
• Name: Louis Capet/ Le Gros DE FRANCE
• Name: Louis KING OF THE FRANKS
• Name: Louis VI
• Name: The Fat
• _UID: 4A68E8ADE77B4453B8741D9D7E5ADD290475
• Courronnement: 3 Aug 1108, Cath?drale d'Orl?ans

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Louis VI, called The Fat (1081-1137), king of France (1108-1137), son and successor of Philip I; he was married to Adelaide of Savoy. Almost his entire reign was spent in subduing the robber barons, who preyed on the environs of Paris but were finally forced to yield to royal authority. For some 20 years during the period from 1109-1135, Louis waged war against Henry I, the Norman king of England, and against Henry's son-in-law, Holy Roman Emperor Henry V; he successfully repelled an invasion by Henry V in 1124. Louis greatly strengthened the royal power in France, granted benefactions to the church and privileges to towns, and became known as the protector of the peasants and as a fearless military leader. He was succeeded on the throne by his son Louis VII.

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Louis VI (late 1081 ? 1 August 1137), called the Fat[1] (French: le Gros) or the Fighter (French: le Batailleur), was King of the Franks from 1108 to 1137.[2]

Louis VI married in 1104: 1) Lucienne de Rochefort ? the marriage was annulled on 23 May 1107 at the Council of Troyes by Pope Paschal II.[21]

He married in 1115: 2) Ad?laide de Maurienne (1092? 1154)[21]

Their children:
Philip (29 August 1116 ? 13 October 1131), King of the Franks (1129? 31), not to be confused with his brother of the same name; he died as a result of a fall from a horse.
Louis VII (1120 ? 18 September 1180), King of the Franks
Henry (1121 ? 13 November 1175), Archbishop of Reims[22]
Hugh (ca 1122 ? died young).
Robert (ca 1123 ? 11 October 1188), count of Dreux[23]
Peter[24] (September 1126 ? 10 April 1183), married Elizabeth, Lady of Courtenay[25]
Constance (ca 1128 ? 16 August 1176), married first Eustace IV, count of Boulogne, and then Raymond V of Toulouse
Philip (c.1132 -1160), Archdeacon of Paris[26]
With Marie de Breuillet, daughter of Renaud de Breuillet de Dourdan,[27] Louis VI was the father of a daughter:

Isabelle (ca 1105 ? before 1175), married (ca. 1119) Guillaume I of Chaumont in 1117[28]

Louis married Alix (Adbelahide) Countess Of SAVOY, of Maurienne in Apr 1115 in Paris, Seine, Ile-DE-France, France. Alix (daughter of Humbert II Count Of MAURIENNE & SAVOY ;[MARQUIS OF TURIN] and Gisela (Gille) De BOURGOGNE) was born on 18 Nov 1092 in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France; died on 25 Nov 1154 in Paris, ?le-de-France, France; was buried in Abbaye DE Montmartre, Savoie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Ad?le DE MAURIENNE
• Name: Adelaide DE SAVOIE
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Adelaide of Maurienne, also called Alix or Adele[1] (1092 ? 18 November 1154) was a queen of France as the second wife of King Louis VI (1115-1137).

Family
Adelaide was the daughter of Count Humbert II of Savoy and Gisela of Burgundy.[2] Adelaide's older brother Amadeus III succeeded their father as count of Savoy in 1103.[3] Adelaide had the same name as her paternal great-grandmother Adelaide of Susa, ruler of the March of Turin, and her second cousin, Adelaide del Vasto, queen of Jerusalem.[4] Through her father, Adelaide was also related to Emperor Henry V. On her mother's side, Adelaide's relatives included her uncle Pope Callixtus II, who visited Adelaide at court in France, and her first cousin King Alfonso VII of Le?n and Castile.[5]

Queenship
Adelaide became the second wife of King Louis VI of France, whom she married on 3 August 1115 in Paris, France.[6] They had nine children, the second of whom became Louis VII of France.

Diploma issued by King Louis VI and Queen Adelaide for the canons of the cathedral chapter of Paris (1127).
Adelaide was one of the most politically active of all France's medieval queens.[7] Her name appears on 45 royal charters from the reign of Louis VI.[8] During her tenure as queen, royal charters were dated with both her regnal year and that of the king.[9] Among many other religious benefactions, she and Louis founded the monastery of St Peter's (Ste Pierre) at Montmartre, in the northern suburbs of Paris.[10]

After Louis VI's death, Adelaide did not immediately retire to conventual life, as did most widowed queens of the time. Instead, she married Matthieu I of Montmorency,[11] with whom she had one child. She remained active in the French court and religious activities.

Death
In 1153 she retired to Montmartre Abbey, which she had founded with Louis VII. She died there on 18 November 1154.[11] She was buried in the cemetery of the Church of St. Pierre at Montmartre. The abbey was destroyed during the French Revolution, but Adelaide's tomb is still visible in the church of St Pierre.[12]

Legend
Adelaide is one of two queens in a legend related in the seventeenth century by William Dugdale. As the story goes, Queen Ad?laide of France became enamored of a young knight, William d'Albini, at a joust. However, he was already engaged to Adeliza of Louvain and refused to become her lover. The jealous Ad?laide lured him into the clutches of a hungry lion, but William ripped out the beast's tongue with his bare hands and thus killed it. This story is almost without a doubt, apocryphal.[13]

Issue
Louis and Adelaide had seven sons and two daughters:

Philip of France (1116? 1131).
Louis VII (1120 ? 18 November 1180), King of France.
Henry (1121? 1175), Archbishop of Reims.
Hugues (b. c. 1122).
Robert (c. 1123? 11 October 1188), Count of Dreux.
Constance (c. 1124? 16 August 1176), married first Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne and then Raymond V of Toulouse.
Philip (1125? 1161), Bishop of Paris. Not to be confused with his elder brother.
Peter (c. 1125? 1183), married Elizabeth, Lady of Courtenay.
a daughter, whose name is not known, who died in infancy and was interred at the Abbey of Saint-Victor, Paris.
With Matthieu I of Montmorency, Adelaide had one daughter:

Ad?le (or Aelis or Alix) of Montmorency.

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