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Louis X (4 October 1289 – 5 June 1316), known as the Quarrelsome ( French: le Hutin ), was King of France from 1314 and King of Navarre as Louis I from 1305 until his death. He emancipated serfs who could buy their freedom and readmitted Jews into the kingdom. His short reign in France was marked by tensions with the nobility, due to fiscal ...
Jul 3, 2023 · “Louis X of France is the first named tennis player in history. How do we know this? He loved the sport, and after a particularly exhausting game of jeu de paume in 1316 he drank a large quantity of chilled wine to cool himself down... and shortly died of pneumonia thereafter.”
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Louis X (born Oct. 4, 1289, Paris—died June 5, 1316, Vincennes, Fr.) was the Capetian king of France from 1314 and king of Navarre from 1305 to 1314, who endured baronial unrest that was already serious in the time of his father, Philip IV the Fair. The eldest son of Philip and Joan of Navarre, he took the title of king of Navarre on his ...
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Louis X (4 October 1289 – 5 June 1316), known as the Quarrelsome ( French: le Hutin), was King of France from 1314 and King of Navarre as Louis I from 1305 until his death.
Louis X (4 October 1289 – 5 June 1316), known as the Quarrelsome ( French : le Hutin ), was King of France from 1314 and King of Navarre as Louis I from 1305 until his death. He emancipated serfs who could buy their freedom and readmitted Jews into the kingdom. His short reign in France was marked by tensions with the nobility, due to fiscal and centralisation reforms initiated during the ...
Oct 4, 2021 · Louis X (October 4, 1289 – June 5, 1316), called the Quarrelsome, the Headstrong, or the Stubborn, was King of France from 1314 to 1316 and King of Navarre as Louis I from 1305 until his death in 1316.
