King Louis (The Fat) France IV 
Louis, known as The Fat, was born in 1081 in France.1 The Fat's father was Phillip Capet Of France I and his mother was Bertha Holland. His paternal grandparents were King Henry Capet Of France I and Grand Dutchess Ann Agnesa Yaroslavna Of Kiev; his maternal grandparents were Florent of Holland I and Gertrude of Saxony. He had a sister named Constance. He was the younger of the two children. He had a half-sister named Cecile. He died at the age of 56 on August 1st, 1137 in Chateau De Baethizy, Paris, Isle De France. He was buried in St. Denis Basilica.2 1 General Notes
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Title: Encyclopedia Britannica, Treatise on
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Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
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(Louis the Fat), 1081–1137, king of France (1108–37). He succeeded his father, Philip I, with whom he was associated in government from c.1100. He firmly established his authority within the royal domain, suppressing brigandage by robber barons and besieging their castles, and punishing wrongdoers. He continued his father’s policy of opposing the English in Normandy and was almost continuously at war with King Henry I (1109–13, 1116–20, 1123–35); he often met with defeat, but his resistance checked a greater English advance. In 1124 he called up forces from far-flung regions of France; with strong support from the nobles he resisted the invasion of Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, who had come to the aid of Henry I. As a part of his plan for strengthening royal authority, Louis favored the church, liberally endowing its enterprises and selecting churchmen—notably the Abbé Suger—as his ministers; he was vigorous, however, in enforcing his privilege of interference in ecclesiastical affairs. To gain support from the towns, he began to grant them royal charters. He obtained a foothold in Guienne (Aquitaine) by marrying his son Louis (his successor as Louis VII) to the heiress of the duchy, Eleanor of Aquitaine. His enforcement of order and justice made Louis popular with the middle classes, the peasantry, and the clergy. Suger’s Vie de Louis VI Le Gros (tr. 1964) is the standard monography for the history of Louis’s reign.
# Note: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.
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Louis VI, the Fat, king of France: 1108 to 1137
A member of the Capetian Dynasty, Louis was born in Paris on December 1, 1081, son of Philippe I of France, and Bertha of Holland (1055-1094).
He married in 1104: 1) Lucienne de Rochefort - the marriage was annulled.
In 1115 he married in 1115 2) Adélaide de Maurienne (c.1100-1154)
Their children:
1) Philippe (1116 - October 13, 1131)
2) Louis VII (1120 - November 18, 1180
3) Henri (1121 - 1175)
4) Robert (c. 1123 - October 11, 1188)
5) Constance (c.1124 - August 16, 1176)
6) Pierre (c. 1126 - 1180)
Almost all of his 29 year reign was spent fighting either the "robber barons" who plagued Paris, or the English. Nonetheless, King Louis managed to reinforce his power considerably and endeared himself to the working classes of France.
Louis VI died on August 1, 1137 and is interred in Saint Denis Basilica.
He was succeeded on the throne by his son Louis VII.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0895 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France d.16 Jun 0956 in Deurdan, Dourdan, France
- b.0938 d.24 Aug 0996 in Paris, France
- b.0910 in Nordhausen, Saxony, Germany d.14 Mar 0964 in Aix-le-Chappelle, France
- b.27 Mar 0972 in Orleans, France d.20 Jul 1031 in France
- b.0952 in France d.1004 in France
- b.Apr 1008 in Bourgogne, Burgundy, France d.04 Aug 1060 in Vitry, Brie, France
- b.0947 in Poitiers, Aquitaine d.Sep 1037
- b.0974 d.1032
- b.0872 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway d.0931 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Normandie, Neustria
- b.0917 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.14 Oct 0962
- b.0872 in Evreux, Neustria
- b.23 May 1052 in Reims, Champagen, France d.29 Jul 1108 in Melun, Isle De France
- b.Jul 0942 in Kiev, Ukraine d.0972 in Kiev, Ukraine
- b.0960 in Kiev, Ukraine d.15 Jul 1015 in Kiev, Ukraine
- b.0944 in Kiev, Ukraine
- b.0979 in Kiev, Ukraine d.20 Feb 1053 in Kiev, Ukraine
- b.0936
- b.0962 in Polotsk, Byelorussia d.1002
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- b.1036 in Kiev, Ukraine d.1076 in France
- b.0930 in Sweden d.0994 in Uppsala, Sweden
- b.0950 in Sweden d.1022
- b.0950 d.02 Feb 1013
- b.1001 in Uppsala, Sweden d.10 Feb 1049 in Kiev, Ukraine
- b.0979 in Sweden
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- b.1081 in France d.01 Aug 1137 in Chateau De Baethizy, Paris, Isle De France
- b.0938 in Egmond Binnen, Noord Holland, Netherlands d.06 May 0988 in Abdijkerk, Egmond Aan Den Hoef, Noord Holland, Netherlands
- b.0961 in Gand, Flandre-Orientale, Belgium d.18 Sep 0993 in Egmond Aan Den Hoef, Noord Holland, Netherlands
- b.0937 in Gand, Flandre-Orientale, Belgium d.10 Apr 0990
- b.0978
- b.0922 in Luxembourg d.15 Aug 0998
- b.0963 in Kleve, Nordrhein-Westphalia, Germany d.14 May 1005
- b.0934 d.13 Dec 0992
- b.1017 in Vlaardingen, Zuid Holland, the Netherlands d.28 Jun 1061 in Nederhemert, Gelderland, Netherlands
- b.0985
- b.1054 in Vlaaringen, Netherlands d.1093 in Montreuil-sur-Loire, France
- b.0910 in Luneburg, Saxony, Germany d.27 Mar 0973 in Luneburg, Saxony, Germany
- b.0940 in Luneburg, Saxony, Germany d.09 Jan 1011 in Luneburg, Saxony, Germany
- b.0918 in Westerberg, Saxony, Germany
- b.0995 d.29 Jun 1059
- b.0932
- b.0974 d.03 Oct 1011
- d.26 Oct 0973
- b.1028 in Schweinfurt, Unterfranken, Bavaria d.04 Aug 1113
- b.0935 d.16 Aug 0980
- b.0950 in Schweinfurth, Unterfranken, Bavaria d.18 Sep 1017
- b.0941 d.19 Sep 1015
- b.1005 in Schweinfurt, Unterfranken, Bavaria
- b.0962 d.05 Jun 1036
- b.0972 in Schwaben, Bavaria d.1017
- b.0965
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Details of The Fat's family with Alix of Savoy
Details of The Fat's family with Lucienne de Montlhery
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