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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Louis IX of France, Boniface of Savoy, Nahmanides, Bela IV of Hungary, Mecia Lopes de Haro, William Levett, Saint Isabelle of France, Alan la Zouche, Isaac ben Moses of Vienna, David VII of Georgia, Ladislaus of Salzburg, Maria Laskarina, Chandrabhanu, Raoul de Soissons, Theobald II of Navarre, Margaret of Sicily, William Og de Burgh, Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre, Raymond de Fauga, Walter de Baltrodin, Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Sri Indraditya, Hugh XII of Lusignan, Alphonso of Brienne, Margret Skuladottir, Stefan Vancza, Dubsuilech O Maolconaire, Philip of Montfort, Lord of Castres, Uli I of Mali, Ibn Abi Usaibia, Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk, Brother Leo, Margaret, Marchioness of Namur, Mahmud al-Alusi, Nicholas de Moffat, Otto von Lutterberg, David I Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl, Etienne Boileau, Saint Almus, Nij Yoshizane. Excerpt: Louis IX (25 April 1214 - 25 August 1270), commonly Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death. He was also styled Louis II, Count of Artois from 1226 to 1237. Born at Poissy, near Paris, he was the sixth-great-grandson of Hugh Capet, and thus a member of the House of Capet, and the son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile. He worked with the Parliament of Paris in order to improve the professionalism of his legal administration. He is the only canonised king of France; consequently, there are many places named after him, most notably St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, Sao Luis do Maranhao, Brazil and both the state and city of San Luis Potosi, in Mexico. Saint Louis was also a tertiary of the Order of the Holy Trinity and Captives (known as the Trinitarians). On 11 June 1256, the General Chapter of the Trinitarian Order formally affiliated Louis IX at the famous monastery of Cerfroid, which had been constructed by Felix of Valois north of Paris. Much of...
