King of the Franks Louis Capet, VI

1081 - 1137  (55 years)

• Name	Louis Capet  [1, 2, 3]
  Title	King of the Franks
  Suffix	VI
  Birth	1 Dec 1081	Paris, Île-de-France, France   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Name	the Fat  [3]
  _MILT	1108  [3]
  	Almost all of his twenty-nine-year reign was spent fighting either the "robber barons" who plagued Paris or the Norman kings of England for their continental possession of Normandy
  _ORDI	96th great grandson of Adam and Eve
  		~Eden-M
  Death	1 Aug 1137	Paris, Île-de-France, France   [1, 2, 3]
  	Bethizy Castle
  Burial	St Denis, Cher, Centre, France   [2, 3]
  	Basilica of Saint Denis
  		Tomb of Louis VI
  Person ID	I9763	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	King of the Franks Philippe Capet, I,   b. 23 May 1053, Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France d. 29 Jul 1108, Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France (Age 55 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Bertha de Hainault,   b. 1054, Vlaardingen, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands d. 30 Jul 1093, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France (Age 39 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1072	Holland, Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands   [1, 4]
  	Philip repudiated Bertha (claiming she was too fat) so he could marry Bertrade
  Family ID	F3115	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Queen Consort Adélaïde de Savoie,   b. 1092, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France d. 18 Nov 1154, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	Apr 1115	Paris, Île-de-France, France   [1, 3]
  Children	1. King of France Louis Capet, VII,   b. 1120, Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France d. 18 Sep 1180, Paris, Île-de-France, France (Age 60 years)  [natural]   2. Constance Capet,   b. 1124, Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France d. 16 Aug 1176, Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France (Age 52 years)  [natural]   3. Peter de Courtenay, I,   b. Sep 1126, France d. 10 Apr 1183, Israel (Age 56 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F3333	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1 Dec 1081 - Paris, Île-de-France, France Marriage - Apr 1115 - Paris, Île-de-France, France Death - 1 Aug 1137 - Paris, Île-de-France, France Burial - - St Denis, Cher, Centre, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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• Sources

  [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. [S189] Ancestry.com, Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S851] Wikipedia: Louis VI, Louis Capet IV. Louis VI (c.1081 – 1 August 1137), called the Fat (French: le Gros) or the Fighter (French: le Batailleur), was King of the Franks from 1108 to 1137, the fifth from the House of Capet. Chronicles called him "roi de Saint-Denis". Louis VI Louis was the first member of his house to make a lasting contribution to the centralizing institutions of royal power.[1] He spent almost all of his twenty-nine-year reign fighting either the "robber barons" who plagued Paris[2] or the Norman kings of England for their continental possession of Normandy. Nonetheless, Louis VI managed to reinforce his power considerably and became one of the first strong kings of France since the death of Charlemagne in 814. Louis was a warrior king but by his forties his weight had become so great that it was increasingly difficult for him to lead in the field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_VI_of_France [S298] Wikipedia: Philip I of France, Philippe Capet I. Philip I (23 May 1052 – 29 July 1108), called the Amorous, was King of the Franks from 1060 to 1108, the fourth from the House of Capet. His reign, like that of most of the early Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the time. The monarchy began a modest recovery from the low it reached in the reign of his father and he added to the royal demesne the Vexin and Bourges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_I_of_France