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Kings of France

YGK These Kings of France

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Philip II
The short-reigning king who annexed Languedoc, captured Poitou, and established the system of appanages (land grants) that increased French royal power Louis VIII
The only canonized king of France who led the Seventh Crusade and negotiated peace with England Louis IX (St. Louis IX)
The Valois king who ransomed his father from England, and with advisor Bertrand du Guesclin, recaptured almost all of the lost territory during the Hundred Years' War Charles V
The Valois king whose short reign was marked by the enormous cost and failure of his Italian campaign to govern Naples Charles VIII
The Valois king known for early military victories (Battle of Marignano), support of luminaries like da Vinci, but whose rivalry with Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire led to his capture and France's bankruptcy Francis I
The last Valois king whose reign was consumed by the French Wars of Religion and the War of the Three Henries, and who was assassinated by a friar Henry III
The founder of the House of Bourbon who ended the War of the Three Henries, renounced Protestantism ("Paris is well worth a mass"), and issued the Edict of Nantes Henry IV
The Bourbon king who ruled with Cardinal Richelieu and turned France into the pre-eminent European power through victories in the Thirty Years’ War Louis XIII
The "Sun King" whose 72-year reign is cited as the best example of an absolute monarchy and who led France in the War of the Spanish Succession Louis XIV
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