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Definition of Louis VI
1. Noun. King of France whose military victories consolidated his reign (1081-1137).
Generic synonyms: King Of France
Lexicographical Neighbors of Louis VI
Literary usage of Louis VI
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"Lou- ••*• is the Gross," says Robertson, chief towns in the royal domains were
successively admitted to the same privileges during the reigns of Louis VI., ..."
2. The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French by Guizot (François), William Hazlitt (1875)
"Causes and limits of MS weakness—Uncertainty of its character and its principles—New
character of royalty under Louis VI.—It disengages itself from the past ..."
3. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1905)
"What circumstances called him to the continent we do not know, but probably events
growing out of a renewal of war with Louis VI, which seems to have been ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Louis VI, surnamed LE Gsos (the Fat), king of France: b. 1081; d. 1 Aug. 1137.
... He was the son of Louis VI, and succeeded him in 1137. ..."