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King Louis DE VALOIS, XI

King Louis DE VALOIS, XI

Male 1423 - 1483  (60 years)

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  • Name Louis DE VALOIS 
    Prefix King 
    Suffix XI 
    Born 3 Jul 1423  Bourges, Cher, Berry, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Also Known As The Prudent, the Cunning, the Universal Spider 
    Occupation King of France 
    Died 30 Aug 1483  LaRiche, Indre-et-Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Basilica of Notre-Dame de Cléry, Cléry-Saint-André, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I40375  Main
    Last Modified 17 Apr 2016 

    Father King Charles DE VALOIS, VII,   b. 22 Feb 1403, Ville, Paris, Seine, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jul 1461, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years) 
    Mother Queen Marie DE ANJOU,   b. 1404, Anjou, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Nov 1463, Cistercian Abbaye de Chateliers-en-Poitou, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years) 
    Married 18 Dec 1422  Ardèche, Rhône-Alpes, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Husband and wife are 2nd cousins
    Family ID F28339  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Queen Charlotte DE SAVOIE,   b. 11 Mar 1443, Chambbrey, Savoie, Rhone-Alps, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Dec 1483, Loire, Cher, Centre, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 40 years) 
    Married 4 Feb 1451  Tours, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. King Charles DE VALOIS, VIII,   b. 30 Jun 1470, Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Apr 1498, Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 27 years)
    Last Modified 25 Feb 2019 
    Family ID F28060  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Signed the Treaty of Picquigny (1475) with Edward IV of England, which formally ended the Hundred Years' War. With the death of Charles the Bold at the Battle of Nancy in 1477, the dynasty of the dukes of Burgundy died out. Louis took advantage of the situation to seize numerous Burgundian territories, including Burgundy proper and Picardy.

      Louis developed his kingdom by encouraging trade fairs and the building and maintenance of roads. Louis XI pursued the organization of the kingdom of France with the assistance of bourgeois officials.[24] In some respects, Louis XI perfected the framework of the modern French Government which was to last until the French Revolution.[24] Thus, Louis XI is one of the first modern kings of France who helped take it out of the Middle Ages.

      Louis XI was very superstitious[46] and surrounded himself with astrologers. Interested in science, he once pardoned a man sentenced to death on condition that he serve as a guinea pig for a gallstone operation.

      Through war, cunning, and sheer guile, Louis XI overcame France's feudal lords, and at the time of his death in the Château de Plessis-lez-Tours, he had united France and laid the foundations of a strong monarchy. He was, however, a secretive, reclusive man, and few mourned his death.

      Despite Louis XI's political acumen and overall policy of Realpolitik, Niccolò Machiavelli actually criticized Louis harshly in Chapter 13 of the The Prince, calling him shortsighted and imprudent for abolishing his own infantry in favor of Swiss mercenaries. [1]

  • Sources 
    1. [S76] Wikipedia, https:&|;&|;en.wikipedia.org&|;wiki&|;Louis_XI_of_France.


Notes

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Updated 23 Dec 2023