Louis xiii biography

King of France from to

For the cognac, see Louis XIII (cognac). For the architectural style, see Louis XIII style.

Louis XIII (French pronunciation:[lwitʁɛz]; sometimes called the Just; 27 September – 14 May ) was King of France from until his death in and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from to , when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.

Shortly before his ninth birthday, Louis became king of France and Navarre after his father Henry IV was assassinated. His mother, Marie de' Medici, acted as regent during his minority. Mismanagement of the kingdom and ceaseless political intrigues by Marie and her Italian favourites led the young king to take power in by exiling his mother and executing her followers, including Concino Concini, the most influential Italian at the French court.

Louis XIII, taciturn and suspicious, relied heavily on his chief ministers, first Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes and then Cardinal Richelieu, to govern the

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Louis XIII, King of France

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Eric Nelson

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Beik, William. A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,

The best single survey of social and cultural developments in France from the 16th–18th centuries, this text is organized into thematic chapters on such topics as population, rural society, the nobility, cities, warfare, and religious life.

Bercé, Yves-Marie. The Birth of Absolutism: A History of France, –. Translated by Richard Rex. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan,

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Originally published in French as La naissance dramatique de l’absolutisme, – (Paris: Seuil, ), this survey examines the emergence of Bourbon France. It focuses primarily on political and governmental developments contextualizing Louis’s contributions to the emergence of a new more “absolutist” 17th-century French state.

Bergin, Jos

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Louis XIII

The King of France Louis XIII () came to power in circumstances marked bygd the religious wars and plots bygd the grand princes of the kingdom following the assassination of Henry IV ().  With the support of part of the nobility, the mother of the King, Marie dem Médicis, makes a number of attempts to oppose the ung King Louis XIII; these are “the wars of mother and son” in and
One of the incidents of these wars occurred in beneath the walls of the Château dem Caen.  In Normandy, the Duke of Longueville, governor of Normandy, sided with the queen-mother.  Alexandre dem Vendôme, oäkta son of King Henry IV and governor of the Château and the town of Caen, supports the rebels.  He sends to Caen a captain named Prudent who begins to defend the Château, on 1st July   The town’s bourgeois elements found themselves caught between the rebels of the Château and the King’s troops who were adva