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Personal data LOUIS de FRANCE VII 

• He was born on July 22, 1120 in Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France.
• Title: King of France
• He died on September 18, 1180 in Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France, he was 60 years old.
• He is buried on September 19, 1180 in Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France.
• A child of LOUIS VI CAPET de FRANCE and ADELAIDE de SAVOY

Household of LOUIS de FRANCE VII

(1) He is married to ADELA de CHAMPAGNE.

They got married on November 13, 1160, he was 40 years old.

Child(ren):

1. PHILIPPE II AUGUSTE de FRANCE  1165-1223 
2. Agnes Capet de FRANCE  1171-1240 

• The couple has common ancestors.



(2) He had a relationship with CONSTANCE de CASTILE.




Child(ren):

1. Margaret de FRANCE  1157-1197
2. ALAIS de FRANCE  1160-???? 


• The couple has common ancestors.



(3) He is married to ELEANOR d'AQUITAINE.

They got married on July 22, 1137 at Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France, he was 17 years old.




Child(ren):

1. Alais de FRANCE  1149-1197 
2. MARIE de FRANCE  1145-???? 


• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about LOUIS de FRANCE VII

Louis VII (called the Younger or the Young) (French: Louis le Jeune) (1120 - 18 September 1180) was a Capetian King of the Franks from 1137 until his death. He was the son and successor of Louis VI (hence his nickname) and he married Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in western Europe. Eleanor brought the vast Duchy of Aquitaine as a dowry to Louis, thus temporarily extending the Capetian lands to the Pyrenees, but their marriage was annulled in 1152 as no male heir could be produced.

Immediately after the annulment of her marriage, Eleanor married Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou, to whom she gave the Aquitaine, five sons, and three daughters. When Henry became King of England in 1154, as Henry II, he ruled over a large empire, spanning from Scotland to the Pyrenees, that would mark the beginning of the long rivalry between France and England.

Louis VII's reign saw the founding of the University of Paris, and the disastrous Second Crusade. Louis and his famous counselor Abbot Suger pushed for a greater centralization of the state and favoured the development French Gothic architecture, notably the construction of Notre-Dame de Paris.

He died in 1180 and was succeeded by his son Philip II.

Marriages & Issue:
By Eleanor of Aquitaine, he had:
Marie (1145 - 11 March 1198), married Henry I of Champagne
Alix (1151-1197/1198), married Theobald V of Blois

By Constance of Castile:
Margaret (1158 - August/September 1197), married (1) Henry the Young King; (2) King Béla III of Hungary
Alys (4 October 1160 - ca. 1220), engaged to Richard I of England; she married William IV, Count of Ponthieu

By Adele of Champagne:
Philip II Augustus (22 August 1165 - 1223)
Agnes (1171 - after 1204), who was betrothed to Alexius II Comnenus (1180-1183) but married (1) Andronicus I Comnenus (1183-1185); (2) Theodore Branas (1204)
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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