Louis VIII

British  

noun

1. known as Coeur-de-Lion. 1187–1226, king of France (1223–26). He was offered the English throne by opponents of King John but his invasion failed (1216)

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Example Sentences

Philip's first wife, Isabella of Hainault, the mother of the future Louis VIII, had died in 1190, just before her husband had started on his crusade.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

The chief innovation of Philip's son, Louis VIII, was the creation of appanages.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey

Her husband, Louis VIII, was ambitious to rival his father, Philip Augustus, who had seized Normandy in 1203.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

It appears that in the reign of Louis VIII.,

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

In Aragon Don Jayme I., in 1226, issued an edict prohibiting all heretics from entering his dominions, probably on account of the fugitives driven out of Languedoc by the crusade of Louis VIII.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles