• "FMG MedLands" Projesinde Fransa Krallari "LOUIS IX 1226-1270" maddesi12 Aralık 2017 tarihinde Wayback Machine sitesinde arşivlendi.
  • Louis IX was the fourth child of King Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile, who was the granddaughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine (see entry), queen of England.
  • Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), commonly revered as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270.
  • Louis IX ; canonized August 11, 1297, feast day August 25) was the king of France from 1226 to 1270, the most popular of the Capetian monarchs.
  • King Louis IX was the only king of France to be declared a saint, a status that he earned through his excessive piety and participation in two crusades.
  • Apparently it was not God's will that Saint Louis IX was successful, for he was taken captive after his army had been weakened by an epidemic.
  • The mother of the incomparable Saint Louis IX of France, Blanche of Castille, told him when he was still a child that she would rather see him dead in a coffin...
  • Louis VIII died at the young age of thirty-eight, when Louis IX was only twelve years old. A child king had not ruled in France in more than a century.
  • Louis IX, though only 15, personally commanded the troops. He ordered the château at Angers to be rebuilt and pushed toward Nantes, where Henry was based.
  • Louis IX did not lack independence of character, but his confidence in his mother had been amply justified and he always acted in her presence like a child.
  • Accredited to Louis VIII by Honorius III as early as 1225, Frangipani won over to the French cause the sympathies of Gregory IX, who was inclined to listen to...
  • In 2021, defenders of the Catholic faith clashed with protesters over a statue of Louis IX erected in Forest Park at St. Louis in Missouri, USA.
  • Friday is the 800th anniversary of the birth of St. Louis' namesake, King Louis IX of France. You might be familiar with Louis' silhouette from the…