Louis VIII

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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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Louis VIII

Death of Philip Augustus; his son, Louis VIII, succeeds to the French throne.

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

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)

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

After John’s death he crowned the infant Henry III. and played an active part in organizing resistance to the rebels led by Louis of France, afterwards king Louis VIII.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

It appears that in the reign of Louis VIII.,

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