Louis VI of France

Louis VI of France , known as Louis the Large , born on February 1st 1081, dead the 1137 with the royal castle of Béthisy-Saint-Pierre. King of the Francs of July 1108 with 1137, it is the fifth of the dynasty known as of the direct Capétiens.

Biography

He is the son of Philippe I {{er}} (1052 - 1108), king of the Francs and his first wife Berthe of Holland.

After having repudiated Berthe in 1091 and in spite of the protests of the clergy, his father remarie the following year with Bertrade de Montfort, countess of Anjou. From this second union are born four children, including two fils.
Louis, young prince resulting from the first marriage of his father, is high with Suger, future abbot of Saint-Denis, which becomes his/her close friend, then his conseiller.
After having been adoubé knight on May 24th 1098 with Abbeville, Louis is associated with the throne then combat the duke of Normandy and the lords lords of the manor of the royal Domaine who are often rebellious with the authority royale.
The July 29th 1108, its father dies in Melun, and according to its last will, is buried in the abbey church of the Saint-Benoit-on-Loire. As of the finished burial, Louis, suspecting that his half-brother, Philippe de Montlhéry, risk to prevent it from reaching Rheims, hastens to join Orleans located a few kilometres from Saint-Beno4it cheese, in order to be made Sacre R as fast as possible. What is made the August 3rd 1108 in the cathedral, it receives “the very holy oiling” of the hand of Daimbert, the archbishop of Direction. The archbishop of Rheims, Raoul Verd sent messengers to challenge the validity of the sacring, but it was too late.

Louis VI encourages the communal movements, social or religious professional associations. As of 1110, it grants the inhabitants of the cities various tax incentives and the right to manage itself under the direction of a mayor. In 1111 it fights against the armed robbery perpetrated by certain lords such as Hugues of Puiset inside the royal field.

Palm Sunday 1115, it is present at Amiens, to support the bishop and the inhabitants of this city in their conflict with famous the Thomas de Marle, which intervened militarily at the request of his/her father Enguerrand de Boves, count d' Amiens and lord of Coucy. This last refuses to recognize the granting of a Charte granting privileges to the inhabitants of the common . Arrived with an army to help the middle-class men to make the seat of Castillon (fortress dominating the town of Amiens, from whom the father and the son left in “punitive forwardings”), Louis VI receives an arrow in its haubert, then share without overcoming besieged in the tower considered impregnable which will fall only two years later.

Whereas it returns of a punitive forwarding against the plundering lord of the Saint-Brisson-on-Loire close to Gien, Louis the Large suddenly sick tomb with the castle of Béthisy-Saint-Pierre located in the valley of the Autonne, in Forêt of Compiegne, between Senlis and Compiegne. It trespasses there the 1137, of a dysentery caused by the excess of good expensive, which had made it obese. His/her son Louis, who wanted to be a monk, will succeed to him.

An increased role of the king

It is starting from the reigns of Louis VI and Louis VII, advised by the abbot Suger, that the royalty starts to exert a national role, while answering the call of its subjects. The Justice of the king will start to regulate the conflicts between different vassal, to confirm communal Charte S with the middle-class men of the cities and to guarantee properties of Abbaye.

Descent

In 1104, Louis VI marries in first weddings - or only becomes engaged - with Lucienne of Rochefort (nonknown dates of life), girl of GUI Ier of Rochefort (death in 1108), count de Rochefort (Rochefort-in-Yvelines), and of Elisabeth de Crécy (nonknown dates of life).

The union or engagement of the future Louis VI and Lucienne of Rochefort ceased in 1107, according to nonknown methods (repudiation, cancellation?). It is not even certain that there was a marriage; the “forsaken” woman remaria besides at once with Guichard III of Beaujeu.

The May 4th 1115, Louis VI married with Paris, in second weddings, Adèle of Savoy (v. 1100 - 1154), girl of Humbert II of Savoy (death in 1103), count de Maurienne, and of Gisele of Burgundy (v. 1070 - apr. 1133), girl of Guillaume Ier of Burgundy, called the Large one or Bold Head. Of this second union seven wire and two girls result:

Philippe (1116 - 1131), not to confuse with his/her brother of the same name, died of the continuations of a fall of horse.
Louis VII the Young person (1120 - 1180), king de France.
Henri (1121 - 1175), without alliance nor posterity, bishop of Beauvais (1149 - 1161) then archbishop-duke of Rheims (1161 - 1175)
Hugues (v. 1123, dead young person)
Robert Ier de Dreux (v. 1123 - 1188), known as Robert Large the , count de Dreux (1137 - 1184), count of the Pole
Pierre Ier de Courtenay (v. 1125 -v. 1182), married towards 1152 with Elisabeth de Courtenay (v. 1135 - 1206), lady of Courtenay
Constancy of France (v. 1124 - 1180), wife (1) in 1140 Eustace IV (1127 - 1153), said Eustace of Blois , count de Boulogne - without posterity connue marry (2) in 1154 Raymond V (1134 - 1194), count de Toulouse
Philippe (v. 1132/1133 - 1161), not to confuse with his/her older brother of the same name - without alliance nor posterity. Appointed bishop of Paris, there refused the station and remained archdeacon
a young dead girl, buried with Saint-Victor of Paris

With a certain fore-mentioned mistress Marie, girl of Renaud de Breuillet de Dourdan, Louis VI are the father of a girl:

Isabelle de France (v. 1101/1104 - apr. 1175), lady of Liancourt-Saint-Pierre, who marries in spring 1144, Guillaume 1st of Chaumont (in Vexin), wire of Osmond 1st of Chaumont, lord of Chaumont-Quitry.

Louis VI the Large one with the cinema

Louis VI was depicts, in a way very caricatural and truffée of misconception histories, in some scenes of film with vocation Comique the Visitors (1993, of Jean-Marie Poiré), under the features of the actor Didier Pain. It is not useless to recall that this king, if it guerroyé in the duchy of Normandy, could not fight “against Anglois” on grounds which, although it is not clarified in film, could have depended on the duchy of Aquitaine (relief of the natural decorations of film). The decorations of these scenes are incompatible with the fact that this king never left the Paris basin. In addition, the real date of the beginning of the first great competitions anglo - French, quasi-non-existent before 1152, (year of the remarriage of Aliénor of Aquitaine with Henri II of England, after the cancellation of its marriage with Louis VII of France), makes very improbable a war located within this physical framework supposed at the south-west of France. In more one shows us English people speaking whereas at the time all the nobility of the kingdom of England was Norman, angevine and French-speaking person (and that will last until 1400!).

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