Louis IX of France reigned as king from 1226 to 1270 and was widely considered an exemplary Christian ruler, renowned for his piety, justice, and charity toward the poor. After his death on crusade, he was proclaimed a saint in 1297, and today Saint Louis is regarded as one of the central figures of...
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Geoffrey of Beaulieu, from vreux in Normandy, was a French biographer who died towards the end of the 13th century. From a noble family, nothing is known ...