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Louis VIII

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  1. Louis IV11871226MFrenchPOLITICS: hereditary ruler known as Coeur-de-Lion. 1187–1226, king of France (1223–26). He was offered the English throne by opponents of King John but his invasion failed (1216)
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He was only 12 when his father, King Louis VIII, died, and his mother, Blanche de Castille, acted as regent until he could take the helm.

In Aragon Don Jayme I., in 1226, issued an edict prohibiting all heretics from entering his dominions, probably on account of the fugitives driven out of Languedoc by the crusade of Louis VIII.

The greater part of eastern England being in the hands of the French pretender, Prince Louis, afterwards King Louis VIII., and the rebel barons, Henry was crowned by his supporters at Gloucester, the western capital.

Louis IX., or St. Louis, as he is commonly called, was the eldest son of Louis VIII. and a grandson of Philip Augustus.

It appears that in the reign of Louis VIII.,

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