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Personal data Lodewijk VI "de Dikke" van Frankrijk 

• Nickname is de Dikke.
• He was born on December 1, 1081 in Parijs, Frankrijk.
• He died on August 1, 1137 in Béthisy-Saint-Pierre, Oise, Picardie, Frankrijk, he was 55 years old.
• A child of Philips I van Frankrijk and Bertha van Holland

Household of Lodewijk VI "de Dikke" van Frankrijk

He is married to Adelheid van Maurienne.

They got married on March 28, 1115 at Parijs, Frankrijk, he was 33 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Lodewijk VII van Frankrijk  1120-1180 
2. Robert I van Frankrijk  1126-1188 
3. Pierre I van Frankrijk  ± 1126-1183 

Notes about Lodewijk VI "de Dikke" van Frankrijk

LOUIS THIBAUT de France, son of PHILIPPE I King of France & his first wife Bertha of Holland (Paris end 1081-Château Bethizy, near Paris 1 Aug 1137, bur église de l'Abbaye royale de Saint-Denis). Orderic Vitalis names "Ludovicum-Tedbaldum et Constantiam" as the children of Philippe I King of France and his wife "Bertrandam, Florentii Frisiorum ducis filiam"[366]. The Historia Regum Francorum Monasterii Sancti Dionysii names "Ludovicum regem et filiam unam Constanciam" as children of "Philippus rex [et] uxorem sororem Roberti Flandrensis comitis"[367]. The difficulty of dating Louis´s birth is discussed fully by Luchaire, who opts for end 1081 as the most likely possibility[368]. Louis´s birth would be dated to [1077/78] if Suger is correct in recording that he was about sixty years old when he died[369]. The early 12th century Vita Sancti Arnulfi Bishop of Soissons by Hariulf records Louis´s birth in 1081[370]. This date is corroborated by the Chronicon S. Petri Catalaunensis which records that Louis was 26 years old when his father died in 1108[371]. His father installed him as Comte du Vexin, de Mantes et de Pontoise in 1092. He lived away from court after the repudiation of his mother. Associate-king 1098/1100, elected rex designatus by an assembly of nobles and bishops but not crowned[372]. His father transferred effective governing power to him in 1101, investing him as Comte de Vermandois between 1101 and 1105. He succeeded his father in 1108 as LOUIS VI "le Gros" King of France. According to Luchaire, the nickname "le Gros", while not contemporary, was first applied to him as early as the 12th century, including in a fragmentary manuscript which records that "Rex Francorum Ludovicus Grossus" built several churches in 1112[373]. He was consecrated 3 Aug 1108, at the Cathedral of Sainte-Croix, Orléans. Suger's Vita Ludovici records his coronation at Orléans by "Senonensis archiepiscopus Daimbertus"[374].

m (Paris [25/30] Mar 1115) as her first husband, ADELAIDE de Maurienne, daughter of HUMBERT III "le Renforcé" Comte de Maurienne et de Savoie & his wife Gisèle de Bourgogne [Comté] ([1092]-Montmartre 18 Nov 1154, bur Montmartre, église abbatiale de Saint-Pierre). Her marriage is recorded by Orderic Vitalis, who also names her father and her four oldest sons[382]. The De Genere Comitum Flandrensium, Notæ Parisienses records "filiam Humberti comitis Morienne" as wife of "Ludovicum regem Grossum"[383].

King Louis VI & his wife had nine children:
PHILIPPE de France (29 Aug 1116-Paris 13 Oct 1131, bur église de l'Abbaye royale de Saint-Denis[391])
LOUIS de France (1120-Paris, Palais Royal de la Cité 18/19 Sep 1180
HENRI de France ([1121/23]-13 Nov 1175, bur Reims).
HUGUES de France ([1122]-young, maybe bur Paris, Saint-Victor).
ROBERT de France ([1124/26]-Braine [10/12] Oct 1188, bur Braine, église abbatiale de Saint-Ived).
PIERRE de France ([1126]-Palestine 10 Mar [1180/10 Apr 1183])
CONSTANCE de France ([1128]-Reims 16 Aug after 1177)
PHILIPPE de France ([1132/33]-5 Sep 1161, bur Notre-Dame-de-Paris)
Nn child

Bronnen:

[366] Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. III, Liber VII, I, p. 159.

[367] Historia Regum Francorum Monasterii Sancti Dionysii 31, MGH SS IX, p. 405.

[368] Luchaire, A. (1890) Louis VI le Gros, Annales de sa vie et de son règne (Paris), pp. 285-9.

[369] Suger Vita Ludovici Grossi Regis XXXII, pp. 147-8.

[370] Luchaire (1890), p. 285, citing Vita Sancti Arnulfi.

[371] Ex Chronico S. Petri Catalaunensis 1108, RHGF XII, p. 276.

[372] Kerrebrouck (2000), p. 79.

[373] Fragmentum ex Viteri membrana, RHGF XII, p. 63, cited and dated in Luchaire (1890), p. 284, which cites several other sources to justify the statement.

[374] Suger Vita Ludovici Grossi Regis XIII, p. 48.

[375] Fuhrmann, H., trans. Reuter, T. (1995) Germany in the high middle ages c.1050-1200 (Cambridge University Press), p. 103.

[376] Suger Vita Ludovici Grossi Regis XXXII, pp. 147-8.

[377] Obituaires de Sens Tome I.1, Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, p. 268.

[378] Obituaires de Sens Tome I.1, Abbaye de Saint-Denis, p. 322.

[379] Orderic Vitalis, Vol. VI, Book XI, p. 157.

[380] Suger Vita Ludovici Grossi Regis VIII, p. 26.

[381] Longpont Notre-Dame, CCXCII, p. 235.

[382] Orderic Vitalis, Vol. VI, Book XI, p. 155.

[383] De Genere Comitum Flandrensium, Notæ Parisienses MGH SS, p. 258.

[384] Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 1162, MGH SS XXIII, p. 846.

[385] Duchesne, A. (1624) Histoire généalogique de la maison de Montmorency et de Laval (Paris), Preuves, p. 43.

[386] Kerrebrouck (2000), p. 81.

[387] Obituaires de Sens Tome I.1, Abbaye de Saint-Denis, p. 331.

[388] Kerrebrouck (2000), pp. 83 and 91, footnote 91, citing Dufour, J. ´Un faux de Louis VI relatif à Liancourt (Oise)´, Bibliothèque de l´Ecole des Chartes, Tome 144 (1986), appendice, pp. 66-7, and Depoin, J. (1900) Bulletin historique et philologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, p. 144 (not yet consulted).

[389] Longpont Notre-Dame, CCLVI, p. 213.

[390] Longpont Notre-Dame, CCLXXIV, p. 224.

[391] Orderic Vitalis, Vol. VI, Book XIII, p. 423.

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