Louis XIV was born on September 5, 1638, in Saint-Germaine-en-Laye, France, and christened Louis-Dieudonné—French for "Gift of God." His mother was the Hapsburg Spanish queen Anne of Austria, and his father was Louis XIII, king of France. Louis XIV had a brother named Philippe, who...
Louis had nine siblings: Louise Élisabeth, twin of Anne Henriette (1727 – 1759), marriedFelipe, Infante of Spain, Duke of Parma, had three children Anne Henriette, twin of Louise Élisabeth (1727 – 1752), unmarried, died from smallpox Marie-Louise(1728 – 1733), died in childhood Ph...
The final part of the latter novel recounts the legend that a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask was actually Louis's twin brother and has spawned numerous film adaptations generally titled The Man in the Iron Mask. In 1910, the American historical novelist Charles Major wrote "The Little ...
Louis was the great-grandson of King Louis XIV (ruled 1643–1715) and the son of Louis, duc de Bourgogne, and Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy. Because his parents and his only surviving brother had all died in 1712, he became king at the age of five on the death of Louis XIV (September...
Philip was the second son of Philip IV, who made him count ofPoitiersin 1311. When his elder brother, KingLouis X, died in 1316, leaving an infant daughterJoan by his adulterous first wife, and a pregnant widow, Philip won recognition as regent for the unborn child and then, upon its ...