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Feastday: August 25
Date: 1214-1270
Family:
Parents: Father- Louis VIII of France Mother- Blanca Alphonsa Princess Castile
Wife: Margaret De Provence
Children: Philip III "the Bold" King of France
Ancestry:
Saint Louis IX ancestors include Saint Fernando and so Muhamed, Ishmael and Abraham. Also Charlemange and so Zerah. Also Joseph of Arimathea and Saint Helena of Rome. Also King David of Judah and Israel is an ancestor thru Nathan his son. King Solomon of Israel and Judah is also an ancestor. Sainted Ancestry includes more saints than any other saint. These are Saint Ethelbert, Saint Arnulf, Saint Itta, Saint Sigebert, Saint Dagobert, Saint Beggue, Saint Liuthwin, Saint Bathildis, Saint Sexburga, Blessed Pepin, Saint Clodulf, Saint Olga, Saint Matilda, Saint Elgiva, Saint Edgar, Saint Henry II, Saint Cunigunda, Saint Stephen, Saint Margaret, and Saint David.
Descendents:
Descendents include King Edward III Plantagenet of England, and the Kings of France.
Biography:
He succeeded to the throne at the age of twelve under the regency of his mother. Louis IX was born in Poissy, France in 1214 to Louis VIII and Blanche of Castille. On his twenty-first birthday he assumed full kingship. Louis generally remained neutral in international disputes. He was well known for protecting the French clergy from secular leaders and for strictly enforcing laws against blasphemy. However, because of a dispute between the Count of Le Marche and the Count of Poitiers, in which Henry III supported the Count of Le Marche, he was forced to go to war with England. In 1242 Louis defeated Henry III at Tailebourg. After the war, he made restitution to the innocent people whose property had been destroyed. Louis led two crusades, the Sixth and the Seventh Crusades. He established the Sorbonne (1252) and the monasteries of Rayaumont, Vavert, and Maubuisson. He was captured and imprisoned during the Sixth (1244-1249). At the onset of the Seventh Crusade in 1270, Louis died of dysentery. Boniface VIII canonized him in 1297.