King Louis XIII ordered the construction of a hunting lodge in 1624. Several years later, he acquired the surrounding land and began to enlarge the building. Under his son’s reign, the small hunting lodge
In 1667 Louis XIV launched theWar of Devolution—the first in a series of military conflicts that characterized his aggressive approach to foreign policy—by invading the Spanish Netherlands, which he claimed as his wife’s inheritance. Under pressure from the English, the Swedes and especially the...
was the longest-reigning French monarch, reigning from 1643 until he died in 1715. He was born on September 5, 1638, at theChâteau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, the elder son ofKing Louis XIII of FranceandAnne of Austria. ...
As if Louis didn't have enough drama coming from his mother, he also had a whole other family feud brewing with his in-laws. The King of Spain, AKA his wife Anne of Austria's father, was trying to start a war with one of Louis's friends, the Duke of Savoy. Instead of doing his...
Louis was born on September 5, 1638 at Saint-Germain into the family of Louis XIII and his wife, Anne of Austria. On May 16, 1643, his father died and Louis became King of France at the age of five. The country was governed by his mother as regent and at the age of 17 he ruled...
Sensing imminent death in the spring of 1643, King Louis XIII decided to put his affairs in order for his four-year-old son Louis XIV. Not trusting the judgement of his Spanish wife Queen Anne, who would normally have become the sole regent of France, the king decreed that a regency cou...
Was Louis's wife poisoned? It was generally believed that she had been poisoned by one of her husband's friends, but historians have concluded thatshe died of natural causes, perhaps of a ruptured appendix. Did Louis 14th have a black baby?
(Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi-Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon. He became King of France and Navarre at the age of four in 1643 after the death of his father, Louis XIII. His reign spanning 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any monarch of a ...
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The children were raised byMadame Scarron, the Marquise de Maintenon, who would later become King Louis XIV’s second wife. In 1673, Françoise-Athénaïs’ children were legitimized by the King, although Françoise-Athénaïs’s name was not listed, as s...