Louis VIII "The Lion" Capet 
Louis VIII "The Lion" was born on September 5th, 1187 in Paris, Isle-de-France, France. Louis VIII "The Lion"'s father was Philip II "Augustus" Capet and his mother was Isabella de Hainault. His paternal grandparents were Louis VII 'the Younger' Capet and Adelaide de Champagne; his maternal grandparents were Baldwin X and Margarite de Lorraine. He was an only child. He died at the age of 39 on November 7th, 1226.General Notes
Louis VII
Louis VII, called The Young (1121?-80), king of France (1137-80), son and successor of Louis VI. In the first year of his reign he married Eleanor of Aquitaine, daughter of William X, duke of Aquitaine. Louis soon aroused the opposition of Pope Innocent II because of his support of a rival to the papal candidate for the archbishopric of Bourges, and his lands were placed under papal interdict. Louis next fought a 2-year war and conquered Champagne in 1144. In 1147 he joined the unsuccessful Second Crusade as one of its two chief military leaders (the other was Conrad III of Germany). Louis returned to France two years later, and in 1152 his marriage to Eleanor was annulled; in the same year she married Henry of Anjou, later Henry II, king of England. Louis warred with Henry for the possession of Aquitaine but renounced all rights to the duchy in 1154, the year Henry became king of England. Between 1157 and 1180 Louis continued sporadic warfare against Henry, who held many of the French provinces. Louis was succeeded by his son Philip II (Philip Augustus).
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.Apr 1008 in Burgundy, France d.04 Aug 1060 in Vitry-en-Brie, France
- b.23 May 1052 in Reims, Champagne, France d.29 Jul 1108 in Melun, Isle De France, France
- b.1024 in Kiev, Ukraine d.> 1075 in France
- b.~ 1081 in Paris, France d.01 Aug 1137 in Chateau Bethizy, Paris, France
- b.~ 1017 in Vlaardingen, Zuid Holland, Netherlands d.28 Jun 1061 in Murdered near Nederhemert, Gelderland, Netherland
- b.1053 in Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands d.1094 in Montreuil-Sur-Loire, France
- b.~ 1028 in Schweinfurt, Unterfranken, Bavaria d.04 Aug 1113
- b.~ 1119 in Reims, Champagne, France d.19 Sep 1180 in Paris, Isle De France, France
- b.~ 1045 in Geneva, Switzerland d.1059 in Maurienne, Savoie, France
- b.~ 1070 in Maurienne, Savoie, France d.17 Oct 1103
- b.~ 1040 in Geneva, Switzerland d.~ 1095 in Maurienne, Savoie, France
- b.~ 1092 in Maurienne, Savoie, France d.18 Nov 1154 in Abbaye De Montmartre, Savoie
- b.~ 1030 d.11 Nov 1087
- b.1070 in Macon, Burgundy, France d.> 1133
- b.~ 1030 in Longwy, Meurthe-Et-Moselle, France d.> 1088
- b.21 Aug 1165 in Paris, Isle-de-France, France d.14 Jul 1223
- b.1015 in Champaigne, France d.1089 in Slain in battle at Tours, France by Godfrey Martel, Count of Anjou
- b.~ 1045 in Blois, France d.19 May 1102 in Ramula, Holy Land
- b.1019 in Maine, France
- b.~ 1088 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France d.8 JAN 1151/52
- b.14 Oct 1024 in Falaise Castle, Normandy, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermentrube, Near Rouen, France
- b.~ 1062 in Normandy, France d.8 MAR 1135/36 in Marcigny-sur-Loire, France
- b.1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Normandy
- b.~ 1120 in Blois, Champagne, France d.24 Jun 1206 in Paris, Isle De France
- b.~ 1040 in Karnten, Austria d.01 Apr 1096
- b.~ 1075 in Karnten, Austria d.13 Apr 1141
- b.~ 1047 d.17 Jul 1112
- b.~ 1097 in Karnten, Austria d.13 Dec 1160
- b.1046 d.1127
- b.~ 1075
- b.~ 1057 d.1154
- b.05 Sep 1187 in Paris, Isle-de-France, France d.07 Nov 1226
- b.~ 1056 in Hainault, Flanders, Belgium d.1098
- b.1088 in Hainault, France d.1120
- b.1062 in Lorraine, France d.1139
- b.1108 in Mons, Hainault, Belgium d.1171
- b.~ 1055 in Guelders, Rhineland, Germany d.~ 1138
- b.1089 in Wassenberg, Rhineland, Prussia
- b.~ 1055 in Wassenberg, Rhineland, Prussia d.24 Oct 1129
- b.1140 in Mons, Hainault, Belgium d.17 Dec 1195
- b.< 1035 in Namur, Belgium d.22 Jun 1102
- b.1067 in Namur, Belgium d.19 Aug 1139 in Namur, Belgium
- b.~ 1035 in Saxony, Germany d.31 Jul 1102
- b.~ 1124 in Namur, Belgium d.Nov 1168
- b.~ 1019 in Trier, Rhineland, Germany d.08 Aug 1086
- b.~ 1075 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.24 Jun 1143
- b.~ 1055 in Wassenberg, Rhineland, Prussia d.24 Oct 1129
- b.05 Apr 1170 in Mons, Hainault, Belgium d.15 MAR 1189/90
- b.1010 in Lorraine, France d.6 MAR 1069/70 in Remiremont, Vosges, France
- b.1050 in Upper Lorraine, France d.23 JAN 1114/15
- b.1011 in Namur, Belgium d.~ 1080
- b.~ 1110 in Flanders, Belgium d.17 JAN 1167/68
- b.~ 1033 in Flanders, Belgium d.03 Oct 1093
- b.~ 1055 in Flanders, Belgium d.1117
- b.~ 1028 in Schweinfurt, Unterfranken, Bavaria d.04 Aug 1113
- b.~ 1145 in Lorraine, Flandres, France d.17 Dec 1195
- b.1033 in Anjou, France d.14 Apr 1109 in Anjou, France
- b.~ 1072 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Jerusalem
- b.~ 1059 in Montfort Amauri, Normandy, France
- b.1114 in Anjou, France
- b.~ 1065 in Maine, France d.11 Jun 1110
- b.~ 1085 in Le Mans, Pays De La Loire, France d.1136 in Maine, France
- b.~ 1070 in Poitiers, Aquitaine, France
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Children
St. Louis IX Capet
St. Louis IX was born on April 25th, 1214 in Paris, Isle-de-France, France. He died at the age of 56 on August 25th, 1270 in Tunis, Africa. He was buried in St. Denis, France.
Count of Artois Robert
Count of Artois was born in 1216 in Paris, Isle-de-France, France. He died at the age of 34 in 1250.
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