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LOUIS X

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 38 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS X  . (1289—1316), See also:king of See also:France and See also:Navarre, called le Hutin or " the Quarreller," was the son of See also:Philip IV. and of Jeanne of Navarre . He was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 4th of See also:October 1289, took the See also:title king of Navarre on the See also:death of his See also:mother, on the 2nd of See also:April 1305, and succeeded Philip IV. in France on the 29th of See also:November 1314, being crowned at See also:Reims in See also:August 1315 . The origin of his surname is uncertain . See also:Louis X. is a somewhat indistinct figure among the See also:kings of France, the preponderating See also:influence at See also:court during his See also:short reign being that of his See also:uncle, See also:Charles of See also:Valois . The reign began with reaction against the policy of Philip IV . Private vengeance was wreaked on Enguerrand de See also:Marigny, who was hanged, See also:Pierre de Latilli; See also:bishop of Chalons and See also:chancellor, and Raoul de Presle, See also:advocate of the See also:parlement, who were imprisoned . The leagues of the lesser See also:country gentry, formed in 1314 before the See also:accession of Louis, continued to demand the See also:ancient privileges of the See also:nobility,—tourneys, private See also:wars and See also:judgment of nobles not by king's See also:officers but by their peers—and to protest against the See also:direct See also:call by the king of their vassals to the royal See also:army . Louis X. granted them charters in which he made apparent concessions, but used evasive formulas which in reality ceded nothing . There was a See also:charter to the See also:Normans, one to the Burgundians, one to the Languedocians (1315) . See also:Robert de See also:Bethune, See also:count of See also:Flanders, refused to do See also:homage, and his See also:French fiefs were declared confiscate by a court of his peers . In August 1315 Louis X. led an army toward See also:Lille, but the flooded Lys barred his passage, the ground was so soaked with rains that the army could not advance, and it was thrown back, without a See also:battle, on See also:Tournai .

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money inspired one famous See also:ordinance of this reign; in 1315 the See also:serfs of the royal domains were invited to buy their See also:civil See also:liberty,—an invitation which did not meet with See also:great See also:enthusiasm, as the freedman was merely freed for further exploitation, and Philip V. was obliged to renew it in 1318 . Louis X. died suddenly on the 5th of See also:June 1316 . His first wife was See also:Margaret, daughterof Robert II., See also:duke of See also:Burgundy; she was accused of See also:adultery and died a prisoner in the See also:chateau See also:Gaillard . By her he had one daughter, Jeanne, wife of Philip, count of See also:Evreux and king of Navarre . By his second wife Clemence, daughter of Charles Martel, titular king of See also:Hungary, he See also:left a See also:posthumous son, King See also:John I . See Ch . Dufayard, " La reaction feodale sous See also:les fils de Philippe le See also:Bel," in Revue historique (1894) ; See also:Paul Lehugeur, Histoire de Philippe le See also:Long, roi de France (Paris, 1897) ; and See also:Joseph See also:Petit, Charles de Valois (Paris, 1900) . (J . T .

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