Louis IX

Saint Louis ( 1214-1270 )

King de France ( 1226-1270 )

	Louis IX goes up on the throne of France at the twelve years age. He reigns initially under the supervision of his mother, Blanche of Castille. The majority of Louis IX is proclaimed into 1234, but the king lets his mother continue to manage the businesses, it it Marie this same year with Marguerite of Provence.
The reign of Louis IX is marked by a concern of making reign the command and justice (prohibition of the private wars and legal duel, royal investigator sending to supervise the baillifs, many ordinances of reformation of the kingdom, birth of a Parliament, reforms monetary).
	Saint Louis returns justice
	France then knows in Europe a great moral, intellectual and artistic radiation. All these measurements represent a reinforcement of the royal capacity, which wants to be with the service of all, and insofar as it is often the only effective backup of the people against violences of the feudalism.
Saint Louis leaves for the crusade

Sovereign of a burning faith, Louis IX, following a serious disease, makes the promise to cross. He takes part in the two last Holy Land crusades. During the first, it goes away from the kingdom during six years, from 1248 to 1254, leaving the government to his mother then with her brothers; but it is a failure, it is even retained prisoner in Egypt into 1250, then it spends several years in Syria to strengthen the franques places. During the second, in 1270, Louis IX does not carry out forwarding very far since he dies of an epidemic of plague in front of Tunis. He is canonized as of 1297. His/her son Philippe III the Bold one succeeds to him, his elder son Louis having died into 1260.

Saint Louis (Louis IX) and his mother,
White of Castille (Bible Shortened, M240 f.8)