Back Louis X
= Louis le Hutin (Louis the Disputer)
Born: 1289
Father: Philip IV
Mother: Joan of Navarra
King: 1314-1316
Age: 25
Wives 1. Margaret of Burgundy (1305)
          2. Clemence of Hungary (1315)
Children: Jeanne, Queen of Navarre (1311-1349) (1)
              John I (1316) (2)
Died: 1316
Age: 27
The eldest son of Philippe IV and Jeanne de Navarre, he took the title of king of Navarre on his mother's death (April 2, 1305) and was crowned at Pampelune on 1 Oct 1307. On November 29, 1314, he succeeded his father as king of France and was crowned in August 1315 by archbishop Robert de Courtenay.

Louis's main policies influenced by his uncle, Charles de Valois, were designed to allay baronial discontent and to gain support and money for a projected campaign against Flanders. Charters were granted to groups of nobles in almost every province of France. Louis bought the support of the clergy by similar means; but whereas they gained for the church some real privileges, the use of ambiguous formulas made the baronial charters virtually worthless. Louis also sold the serfs their liberty, the beginning of the eventual end of serfdom. Louis restored the office of chancellor and dismissed and imprisoned many of his father's unpopular ministers and advisers, among them Enguerrand de Marigny.

Louis X suddenly died on June 5, 1316, in the age of 26.
Source:
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