St. Louis IX, King of France

1214 - 1270  (56 years)

• Name	Louis IX   [1]
  Prefix	St.
  Suffix	King of France
  Born	25 Apr 1214	Castle of Poissy, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	25 Apr 1215	Poissy, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France   [4]
  Died	25 Aug 1270	near Tunis, Africa   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Buried	Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France   [2, 3]
  Siblings	2 siblings
  + 1. St. Louis IX, King of France ,   b. 25 Apr 1214, Castle of Poissy, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France ,   d. 25 Aug 1270, near Tunis, Africa  (Age 56 years) + 2. Robert of France ,   b. 17 Sep 1216,   d. 9 Feb 1250, Mansourah, Egypt  (Age 33 years) + 3. Charles I Etienne, King of Naples and Sicily ,   b. Mar 1226,   d. 7 Jan 1285  (Age ~ 58 years)
  Person ID	I20659	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Louis VIII, King of France,   b. 3 Sep 1187, Paris, France ,   d. 8 Nov 1226, Castle of Montpensier, Puy-de-Dôme, France  (Age 39 years)
  Mother	Blanche of Castile, Queen Consort of France,   b. Bef 4 Mar 1188, Palencia, Castile, Spain ,   d. 1252, Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France  (Age > 63 years)
  Married	23 May 1200	Church of Port-Mort, Eure, Normandy, France   [1, 2, 6, 7, 8]
  Family ID	F1042	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret of Provence, Queen Consort of France,   b. 1221, Forcalquier, Alpes-de-Haut-Provence, France ,   d. 20 Dec 1295, Faubourg St.-Marceau, Paris, France  (Age 74 years)
  Married	27 May 1234	Sens, Yonne, France   [2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Philippe III, King of France,   b. 1 May 1245, Poissy, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France ,   d. 5 Oct 1285, Perpignan, Pyrénées-Or, France  (Age 40 years) + 2. Robert of France,   b. 1256,   d. 7 Feb 1318, Bois de Vincennes, Paris, France  (Age 62 years) + 3. Agnes of France,   b. Abt 1260,   d. 19 Dec 1325, Château de Lantenay, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France  (Age ~ 65 years)
  Last Modified	7 Jun 2019
  Family ID	F4443	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Canonized 11 Aug 1297 by Boniface VIII; his feast day is 25 Aug. He led the Seventh Crusade, and died of dysentery while leading the Eighth Crusade. From Matthew Gabriele and David Perry, "In St. Louis, History and Nostalgia Battle It Out", Smithsonian Magazine website, 9 Jul 2020: Louis IX reigned over France in the middle of the 13th century. Like most medieval sovereigns, he implemented legal reforms and provided charity to the Christian poor. More significantly, Louis personally led two Crusades to North Africa against Muslims—the first to Egypt in 1248, and the second to Tunisia in 1270. These campaigns were simply a brief chapter in a much larger drama that saw Christians wage holy war throughout the Mediterranean world against Muslims, Jews, and sometimes their fellow Christians. The impact of the Crusades cannot be overstated, as this movement shaped the cultural, social, and economic direction of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East for centuries. Indeed, it continues to haunt the modern imagination. Both of Louis IX's Crusades failed spectacularly, with the king captured by the Egyptians and ransomed for an enormous sum in 1250 and dying of dysentery almost immediately upon arriving in Tunisia in 1270. Louis was canonized—largely for these efforts—in 1297, and he's served as a symbol of France's glorious past ever since. So, when French trappers established a fur-trading post on Cahokia lands in 1764, they named the site in honor of two kings: Louis IX and then-sovereign Louis XV. The settlement retained the name through French, Spanish and finally American occupation. […] Louis IX's acts as king certainly included care for the Christian poor—but they also encompassed moments of vicious anti-Judaism, including the burning of Talmuds in Paris in the 1240s; the arrest of all Jews in France and confiscation of their property in 1268; and the segregation of Christians and Jews, who were forced to wear a yellow star on their clothes as of 1269.

  
  

• Sources

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