CAPET Louis

Abt 1120 - 1180  (60 years)

• Name	CAPET Louis
  Birth	Abt 1120	Marne, Champagne, France
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Sep 1180	Saint Pont-Allier, France
  Notes	1120: Louis is born. 1131: Phillip dies. Louis is Dauphin.[1] 1137: Louis marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. Becomes king of France. 1144: Conquers Champagne after 2 year war. Geoffrey "the Handsome", Count of Anjou, conquers Normandy. [2] Easter 1146: Bernard of Clairvaux fires up the masses to go to war. It results in a Crusade. Jun 1147: Unsuccessful Second Crusade; one of two chief military leaders[3][4] 1148: Reaches Holy Land.[5] 1149: Returns home. 1152: m. to Eleanor annulled.[6][7] 1154: Renounces rights to Aquitaine. m. Constance of Castile[8] 1157 - 1180: continues sporadic warfare against Henry II. 04 Oct 1160: Constance dies in childbirth. Louis m. Adela of Champagne 1177: Pope brings Louis and Henry I of England to terms at Vitry.[9] 1179: Phillip Augustus crowned at Reims[10] 18 Sep 1180: Dies. Succeeded by son Philip II[11] Early Life p. Louis VI of France and Adelaide of Maurienne[12] Other Facts war with Theobald II of Champagne[13] lands were placed under papal interdict Pope Innocent II (reigned 1130-43)[14] assaulted and burned Vitry.[15] arrested Eleanor of Aquitaine[16] supported Thomas Becket[17] LOUIS VII (CAPET-13) OF FRANCE, King of France, 1137-80, son and heir, born in 1120-21. He married (1st) in the Cathedral of Saint-Andre in Bordeaux July 1137 ELEANOR (or ALIENOR, ELEONORE) OF AQUITAINE. She was born about 1124. They had two daughters, Marie and Alix. They were divorced 21 March 1152; she married (2nd) 18 May 1152 HENRY II, King of England, and died at Poitiers (Vienne) 31 March 1204. He married (2nd) in the Cathedral of Saint-Croix in Orleans (Loiret) in 1154 CONSTANCE (or CONSTANZA) OF CASTILE, She was born about 1140. They had two daughters, Margaret (or Marguerite) and Alix). His wife, Constance, died in childbirth 4 October 1160. He married (3rd) in Notre Dame Cathedral at Paris 13 Nov. 1160[18] ADELE (or ALA, AALIS) OF BLOIS, She was born about 1140. They had one son, Philippe-Auguste (II) [King of France] and one daughter, Agnes. LOUIS VII, King of France, died at Paris 18 (or 19) Sept. 1180, and was buried in the Abbey of Notre-Dame-deBarbeau (Fontaine-le-Port, Seine-et-Marne) near Fontainebleau. His widow, Adele, died at Paris 4 June 1206. Sources ↑ Louis VII was suited for priesthood. In youth, he spent time in Saint-Denis, where he made friends with Abbot Suger, who served him in his early years as king. ↑ Surrenders half of Vexin so Louis will call him Duke of Normandy. Vexin was vital to Norman security, so it was considered a clever move by Louis. Later, it would later to be another step for Angevin power. ↑ the other was Conrad III of Germany. ↑ Raymond of Poitiers welcoming Louis VII in Antioch. In June 1147 Louis VII and his queen, Eleanor, set out from Metz, Lorraine, on the overland route to Syria. Just beyond Laodicea the French army was ambushed by Turks. As they were bombarded by arrows and heavy stones, the Turks swarmed down from the mountains and the massacre began. Odo of Deuil reported that Louis lost his small but famous royal guard in the fight but scaled the mountain side by gripping the tree roots to avoid capture. The enemy went after him, and even shot arrows. But Louis was unscathed, defending the crag with by sword, cutting off heads and hands. ↑ Eleanor supported her uncle, Raymond of Antioch, and prevailed upon Louis to help Antioch against Aleppo. But Louis VII's interest lay in Jerusalem, and so he slipped out of Antioch in secret. He sided with Conrad III of Germany and Baldwin III of Jerusalem to lay siege to Damascus. A disaster, the project was abandoned. Louis VII decided to leave, despite the protests of Eleanor, who still wanted to help her doomed uncle Raymond of Antioch. Louis VII and the French army returned home in 1149. The expedition was a great cost to the royal treasury and military. It also precipitated a conflict with Eleanor (Louis arrested her), leading to the annulment of their marriage at the council of Beaugency (March 1152). Consanguinuity was the basis; in fact, it owed more to the state of hostility between the two, and the decreasing odds that their marriage would produce a male heir to the throne of France. At the same time the emperor Frederick I (1152–1190) in the east was making good the imperial claims on Arles. When the schism broke out, Louis VII took the part of the Pope Alexander III, the enemy of Frederick I, and after two comical failures of Frederick I to meet Louis VII at Saint Jean de Losne (on 29 August and 22 September 1162), Louis VII definitely gave himself up to the cause of Alexander III, who lived at Sens from 1163 to 1165. Alexander III gave the King, in return for his loyal support, the golden rose. ↑ Eleanor runs offwith Henry of Anjou. Louis goes to war for possession of Aquitaine. Didn't work. ↑ Henry scored the duchy of Aquitaine, and had 3 daughters, and five sons with the wealthy Duchess of Aquitaine. Louis VII's ineffective war against Henry for marrying without the authorization of his suzerain was a humiliation for the enemies of Henry and Eleanor. The English couple routed those troops, ravaged their lands, and stole their property. Louis reacted by coming down with a fever, and returned to the Ile de France. ↑ dau Alfonso VII of Castile. ↑ Louis supported Henry's rebellious sons, and encouraged Plantagenet disunity choosing them (over Henry I) to be the feudal overlords of French Angevin territory. But sibling rivalry and Louis's indecisiveness broke the coalition (1173–1174). ↑ near the end of Louis' life, his third wife bore son and heir, Philip II Augustus. He was the last French king to be crowned in Capetian tradition. But Louis was not present for the ceremony since he was stricken with paralysis. ↑ Abbey at Saint-Pont, Allier and is interred in Saint Denis Basilica. ↑ He was the second son. ↑ for letting Raoul I of Vermandois, Seneschal of France, to ditch his wife, Theobald II's niece, and marry Petronilla of Aquitaine (sis of the French queen). Champagne sided with the Pope in a dispute over Bourges. The war lasted two years (1142–44) and ended with the occupation of Champagne by the royal army. ↑ for supporting a rival to the papal candidate for the archbishopric of Bourges. ↑ 1000+ people sought refuge in the church, then died in flames. Guilty and humiliated by ecclesiastical contempt, Louis admitted defeat. He removed his armies from Champagne and returned them to Theobald, accepting Pierre de la Chatre, and shunning Ralph and Petronilla. To atone for his sins, he declared on Christmas Day 1145 at Bourges his intention to go on crusade. ↑ Louis was smitten with Eleanor to the point factions popped up at court. Her enemies seized the opportunity to knock her out when her and uncle Raymond got too cozy during Louis' crusade. For that, Louis locked her down. ↑ Louis supported Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and tried to reconcile his relationship with Henry II. But this move was also made to damage Henry. Even Louis grew irritated with Becket's stubbornness. When Becket refused Henry's conciliations, Louis asked: "Do you wish to be more than a Saint?" ↑ Van Kerrebrouck, Patrick. Les Capétiens 937-1328. Villeneuve d’Ascq, 2000. Page 95. See also: Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. I page 129 Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. III page 21 Royal and Noble Genealogical Data by Brian Tompsett v. March 25, 2001. (Email redacted for privacy reasons) Eleanor of Aquitane and the Four Kings; Amy Kelly, Vintage Books, 1957 Fredrick Weis (1992). Ancestral Roots, 7th ed. Odo of Deuil: The Crusade of Louis VII Wikipedia:Louis VII of France Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, des pairs, grands officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des anciens barons du royaume, Tome Premier, par le Père Anselme de Sainte-Marie, continuée par Honoré du Fourny, ed. la compagnie des libraires (Paris) 1726-1733. Pages 76-78.
  Person ID	I58295	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	CAPET Louis,   b. 01 Dec 1081, Paris, France d. 01 Aug 1137, Béthisy-Saint-Pierre. France (Age 55 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	SAVOIE Adélaïde,   b. Abt 18 Nov 1092, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie d. 18 Nov 1154, Montmartre, Paris, Ile-de-France, France (Age 62 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1115	Paris, France
  Family ID	F26089	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	CASTILLA Constanza,   b. Abt 1140   d. 04 Oct 1160, Paris, Île-de-France, France (Age 20 years)
  Marriage	1154	Castile, Spain
  Children	1. CAPET Alice,   b. 04 Oct 1160, France d. Abt 1220, France (Age 59 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. CAPET Phillippe Auguste,   b. 21 Aug 1165, Gonesse, Ile-de-France, France d. 14 Jul 1223, Mantes, Ile-de-France, France (Age 57 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: Stepchild]
  Family ID	F26483	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Family 2	CHAMPAGNE Adèle,   b. Abt 1140, France d. 04 Jun 1206, Paris, Île-de-France, France (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	13 Nov 1160	Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Paris, Île-de-France, France
  Children	1. CAPET Phillippe Auguste,   b. 21 Aug 1165, Gonesse, Ile-de-France, France d. 14 Jul 1223, Mantes, Ile-de-France, France (Age 57 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F25996	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026