See also:COUNT OF See also:TOULOUSE AND OF See also:POITIERS See also:ALPHONSE (I220-1271)
, the son of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis VIII., See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:France, and See also:brother of St Louis, was See also:born on the 11th of See also:November 1220
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He joined the See also:county of See also:Toulouse to his See also:appanage of See also:Poitou and See also:Auvergne, on the See also:death, in See also:September 1249, of See also:Raymond VII., whose daughter Jeanne he had married in 1237
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He took the See also:cross with his brother, St Louis, in 1248 and in 1270
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In 1252, on the death of his See also:mother, See also:Blanche of See also:Castile, he was See also:joint See also:regent with See also:Charles of See also:Anjou until the return of Louis IX., and took a See also:great See also:part in the negotiations which led to the See also:treaties of See also:Abbeville and of See also:Paris (1258-1259)
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His See also:main See also:work was on his own estates
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There he repaired the evils of the Albigensian See also:war and made a first See also:attempt at administrative centralization, thus preparing the way for See also:union with the See also:crown
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The See also:charter known as " Alphonsine," granted to the See also:town of See also:Riom, became the See also:code of public See also:law for Auvergne
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Honest and moderate, protecting the See also:middle classes against exactions of the nobles, he exercised a happy See also:influence upon the See also:south, in spite of his naturally despotic See also:character and his continual and pressing need of See also:money
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He died without heirs on his return from the 8th crusade, in See also:Italy, probably at See also:Savona, on the 21st of See also:August 1271
.
See B
.
Ledain, Ilistoire d'See also:Alphonse, fare de S
.
Louis et du See also:coolie de Poitou sous son See also:administration (1241—1271) (Poitou, 1869); E
.
Boutaric, See also:Saint Louis et Alphonse de See also:Poitiers (Paris, 1870) ; A
.
See also:Molinier, Etude sur l'administration de S
.
Louis et d'Alphonse de Poitiers (Toulouse, 188o) ; and also his edition of the Correspondance administrative d'Alphonse de Poitiers in the Collection de documents inedits pour servir d l'Itistoire de France (Paris, 1894 and 1895)
.
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