King Louis XIV (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) of France known as Louis the Great (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, ...
A King at FourExplores the childhood of King Louis XIV of France. Early death of father King Louis XIII; Dependence of father to the duke of Richelieu; Intervention of France in the Thirty Years' War in Germany.Beik, WilliamCalliope
Father Louis XIII Mother Anne of Austria Religion Catholicism Signature Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verifie...
in February 1712, Louis’s mother died of measles. Within days Louis’s father also succumbed to the illness, and both Louis and his surviving brother were also infected. On February 8, 1712, his elder brother died, and Louis became the Dauphin ...
the deposed king ofPoland. They had ten children together, of which three died during their first years of life. This union led to France taking part in theWar of PolishSuccession(1733-1738) againstRussiaandAustriato restore Marie’s father to the throne. Even though the attempt was unsuccess...
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to commend them to the young King in whose name he had ruled for nearly eighteen years. Although Louis XIV was not known to repose in any one of them the kind of confidence that his father had bestowed on Richelieu or his mother, Anne of Austria, on Mazarin, the appointment of a new...
Louis became king of France at the age of five when his father died. In the beginning, he was too young to rule, so his mother helped him. Then at the age of 17, Louis ruled the country alone. He was king for 72 years. France became a powerful country with Louis as king. But ...
Born in 1638, Louis XIV became king at age 4 following the death of his father,Louis XIII, and remained on the throne for the next 72 years. Why is Louis XIV called the Sun King? And why was Louis XIV called the Sun King? It's a name he gave himself!He saw France as a kingdo...
After several weeks of intense illness, King Louis XIII died in Paris on May 14, 1643. Ironically, it was 33 years earlier on the same day that his own father had died. Just like his father, Louis left behind a very young son – not yet five years old – to succeed him on the Fr...