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French Kings

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Louis VII

  • Son of Louis the Fat
  • Married to Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • Owns extensive lands in France
  • Who does she marry next?

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Eleanor of Aquitaine

  • Louis VI was her legal guardian
  • Why is that weird?
  • Louis VII
    • Pious and religious
  • Eleanor
    • Ambitious and kinda crazy

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Eleanor & Louis VII

  • No heir
  • Opposite personalities
  • What were Louis’s characteristics?

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Second Crusade

  • Eleanor comes with
  • She brings friends
  • Dressed as Amazons
  • Affair with man named Raymond
    • Relative

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Return to France

  • Ask Church for annulment
  • Reason: too related
  • Resumes ruling Aquitaine
  • Married 2 months later

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Phillip II

  • Son of Louis VII
  • Forced to go on Third Crusade by Richard I
  • Leaves early
    • To go take Richard’s French lands

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Enter John I

  • Vassal incident
  • Battle of Bouvines
    • Phillip victory
  • Gains Normandy
  • Big Win for Capetians

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Home Improvement

  • Institutes bailli
  • Collected Rents & Taxes
  • Justices
  • Ruled over small areas

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Baili

  • Less powerful than English officials
  • Paid official
  • Moved to new locations
    • Why?

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Central Admin

  • Centralized bureaus
  • What was the English finance dept. Called?
  • French: Chambre de Comptes
    • Chamber of Accounts

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St. Louis

  • Louis IX
  • Washed feet of poor and lepers
  • Faithful to Margaret of Provence
  • Two masses a day

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Louis as King

  • Not ambitious
  • Forbade vassal wars
  • First king to rule all of France
  • Demanded respect for rules

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Courts

  • Let nobles judge
  • Sat in on courts
    • Why?
  • Sat under trees and would listen to poor’s problems

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Parlement of Paris

  • Center for judicial cases
  • Not political assembly
  • Highest court in France
  • Lasts until 1789