biography
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| lived:
| (1214–70)
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| biography:
| King of France (1226–70), born in Poissy, near Paris, NC France, the son of Louis VIII. By his victories he compelled Henry III of England to acknowledge French suzerainty in Guienne (1259). He led the Seventh Crusade (1248), but was defeated in Egypt, taken prisoner, and ransomed. After returning to France (1254), he carried out several legal reforms, and fostered learning, the arts, and literature. He embarked on a new Crusade in 1270, and died of plague at Tunis. He was canonized in 1297; feast day 25 August. |
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