St.Louis of King

St. Louis /1214 ?– 1270 /, was the most important king of France. His mother was also St. Bianca of Castile, who ruled for her son as regent after the untimely death of her husband King Louis VIII. Louis IX. he began to rule independently at the age of ten. In 1234, he married Margita of Provense, with whom he had 10 children. He led his first crusade in 1248. He wanted to strike at the weakest protected city of Damietta, which he managed to occupy. With this attack on the Egyptian cities, he wanted to force the Sultan to give up the Christian cities in St. Earth. At Kahir, however, Ľudovít suffered a cruel defeat, and was himself captured. In 1254 he returned to France. There was a thirteen-year period of a golden age for France. It was mainly from a judicial, administrative point of view. He also paid a lot of attention to the poor and oppressed. He undertook his second crusade in 1270. This time his target was Tunis. Unfortunately, Louis died near Carthage of a plague that broke out in his army. Louis was canonized in 1297.

What did St.Louis  and Richard the lion’s heart in common?
Henry II. Plantageneth married his daughter Eleonora to the King of Castile. Eleonora gave the Castilian king about 10 children, among them St. Biancu, mother of St. Louis.
Richard the Lionheart at the end of his life began peace negotiations with King Philip Augustus of France /St. John’s grandfather. Louis/. It was Philip Augustus’ son Louis VIII who was to marry some of King Richard’s nieces. This marriage was to confirm a more lasting peace between France and England. This proposal was temporarily averted by the tragic death of King Richard in 1199. Richard’s mother, the famous Eleonora of Aquitaine, took up this intention. Despite her 82, she went to Castile to bring her granddaughter from there. Originally, it was not supposed to be Bianca, but her older sister Uracca. Queen Eleónora decided that Bianca would be a more suitable bride for Louis VIII. In the end, her decision was crowned with success when Bianca of Castile and her son Louis were declared saints after their death.
St. Ľudovít was called a monk by historians, a king and knight in one person. I highlighted the word knight because this most connected him to poor Richard the Lionheart, who died 15 years before the birth of his great-nephew. Louis respected his ancestor and took an example from him. In the Middle Ages, the knight had the duty – to protect the weak and oppressed. King Louis undertook a crusade as King Richard. Even at the end of Queen Berengaria’s life – wife Richard the Lionheart granted her the city of Le Manche as a duchy. Richard the Lionheart and St. Louis was considered a model of European chivalry.

Louis ruled his country for 45 long years, six of which were in St. Earth. He tried to avoid the outbreak of wars. He made peace with neighboring rulers. In 1242, he defeated the English in a war. Finally, in 1258, he made a lasting compromise peace with them. To introduce a fair system in the judiciary, the Parliament of Paris introduced it as an independent judicial institution. Louis’s sense of justice became known throughout today’s Europe. Many nobles trust him when they had a dispute. And Louis solved it for everyone’s satisfaction.
Richard – ruled England for ten years, barely a single year of which was spent in the country in which he ruled. He participated in the Third Crusade in 1189 – 1192. Returning to England, he spent the next five years fighting against King Philip Augustus of France to defend his lands in France.

Louis’s crusades, which he led, were certainly not cheap fun for his country. But compared to how burdened his country Richard the lion’s heart is nothing. In the ten years that Richard ruled England, he inadvertently drained his countries financially. His crusade, then the capture in Germany, and the war against France. His capture alone cost his countries 150,000 guilders, which was twice the annual income of his countries.
Richard introduced several laws to protect Jews. He stabilized weights and measures, supported trade.