Louis VI the Fat VI King of FRANCE, HRH

                   Capeian King 1108 to 1137. He was at war almost continuously betweenhimself
and Henry I of England. Known as Louis The Fat.
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Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both
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He was called the Fair.  He was also a crusader.
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BIOGRAPHY
Pierre Goubert:
The fifth king of the [Capetian]According to Edouard Perroy, [Louis
VI] was 'gluttonous, obese, sensual, and brutal.  But he was lucky
enough to be advised by Suger, abbot and rebuilder of Saint-Denis, who
wrote a laudatory biography of his master which impressed historians
for a long time.  Indeed, the king had some great designs, such as
rekindling the internal quarrels of the powerful Anglo-Norman
monarchy.  But it defeated him several times, and in 1113 even brought
the duchy of Brittany under its control.  Then, as luck would have it,
England was again troubled by anarchy, giving Louis VI a brief
respite.
He was more successful in moving twice to punish his vassal Guillaume
VI of Auvergne, who was persecuting the bishop of Clermont.  An even
better omen for the authority of the Capetians was the king's ability
to gather enough warriors from among the most powerful  lords, who put
a stop to their own quarrels long enough to rejoin the royal host
before Reims and discourage the attack of [Holy Roman] Emporer Henry
V.
But the real success of Louis VI was at last to pacify his own lands.
He devoted almost twenty years to quelling the hard-headed and
well-entrenched brigand lords who defied him.  His vassals gave him
little help, but several communal militias lent assistance.  It took
him seven years to subdue the lord of Puiset and close to thirty to
control the lord of Coucy.  He even had to fight against the family of
his favorite, Etienne de Garlande, who had confiscated almost all of
the royal household offices and held the royal seal.  Despite the
confiscation of lands and oaths of submission, there was always work
to be done.
Having pacified, united, and even somewhat extended his lands, Louis
VI ended his reign with a master stroke whose scope he was surely
unable to foresee.  He married his son Louis VII [#3134] to the sole
heiress of one of his greatest vassals: no less than Guillaume X of
Aquitaine [#3151], who died shortly before Louis VI and whose duchy,
spreading from the Loire River to the Dordogne, had been extended by
the acquisition of the duchy of Gascony, abutting the Pyrenees.
To be sure, husband and wife kept their inherited domains separate,
but at last the Capetians would venture forth under new skies where
they could foresee a considerable broadening of their power; which
took far more than a century to consolidate.
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Record Change  December 08, 1999