Louis VI of France, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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King of France
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Louis VI of France
- Louis VI (c.1081 – 1 August 1137), called the Fat (French: le Gros) or the Fighter (French: le Batailleur), was King of France from 1108 to 1137.
- Chronicles called him "roi de Saint-Denis".
- Louis was the first member of the house of Capet to make a lasting contribution to centralizing the institutions of royal power.
- He spent almost all of his twenty-nine-year reign fighting either the "robber barons" who plagued Paris or the Norman kings of England for their continental possession of Normandy.
- Nonetheless, Louis VI managed to reinforce his power considerably and became one of the first strong kings of France since the death of Charlemagne in 814. Louis was a warrior-king, but by his forties his weight had become so great that it was increasingly difficult for him to lead in the field.
- A biography – The Deeds of Louis the Fat, prepared by his loyal advisor Abbot Suger of Saint Denis – offers a fully developed portrait of his character, in contrast to what little historians know about most of his predecessors.
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