On October 4th 1289 Louis the Stubborn, also known as Louis the Quarreller (Louis X, king of France from 1314-16) was born.
He was preceded as French monarch by, inter alia, Charles The Bald; Louis the Stammerer, Charles the Fat; Charles the Simple; Louis from overseas; Louis the Lazy; Robert the Pious; Louis the Fat; Louis the Young; Louis the Lion; Philip the Bold; and Philip the Fair. Following the stubborn quarreller came (again, inter alia) John the Posthumous (who lasted five days); Philip the Tall; Charles the handsome; John the Good; Charles the Wise; Charles the Beloved; Charles the Victorious; Louis the Prudent; Charles the Affable; Louis the Father of People; Francis the Restorer of Letters; Good King Henry; Louis the Sun King; and Louis the Beloved. After that the French stopped having beloved kings and became a boring old Republic.
Thursday 4 October 2007
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very interesting... were those really the "names" they were given by the peasants and such?
ReplyDeleteI suspect that most of them were given in retrospect by the historians! Wouldn't it be lovely to know? And if they were given by the peasants I wonder what names we would give to our present Royal family?
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