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[4] Philip was buried at the Basilica of Saint-Denis. [5] Abbot Suger, who was a close friend of Louis VI, advised the grief-stricken king to "crown his son Louis (the future Louis VII), a very fine child, have him anointed with the sacred oil, and make him king with him, in order to prevent any disturbance from his rivals."
Larmuseau et al. (2013) [79] tested the Y-DNA of three living members of the House of Bourbon, one descending from Louis XIII of France via King Louis Philippe I, and two from Louis XIV via Philip V of Spain, and concluded that all three men share the same STR haplotype and belonged to haplogroup R1b (R-M343). The three individuals were further ...
Marie-Thérèse Charlotte (19 December 1778 – 19 October 1851) was the eldest child of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France, and their only child to reach adulthood. In 1799 she married her cousin Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême , the eldest son of Charles, Count of Artois , henceforth becoming the Duchess of Angoulême .
Louis XVI: Louis Stanislas, Count of Provence: Heir presumptive Brother 10 May 1774 Brother became king 22 October 1781 Son born to king Charles, Count of Artois, brother Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France: Heir apparent Son 22 October 1781 Born 4 June 1789 Died Louis Stanislas, Count of Provence, 1781–1785, uncle Louis Charles, Duke of Normandy ...
Louis VIII 1187–1226 King of France r. 1223–1226: Louis IX 1214–1270 King of France r. 1226–1270 House of Bourbon: Philip III 1245–1285 King of France r. 1270–1285: Robert 1256–1317 Count of Clermont House of Valois: Philip IV 1268–1314 King of France r. 1285–1314: Charles 1270–1325 Count of Valois: Louis I 1279–1341 1st ...
Louis XVI and his family being transferred to the Temple Prison on 13 August 1792. Engraving by Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, 1792.. Following the attack on the Tuileries Palace during the insurrection of 10 August 1792, King Louis XVI was imprisoned at the Temple Prison in Paris, along with his wife Marie Antoinette, their two children and his younger sister Élisabeth.
King Louis XVI of France was executed via guillotine on 21 January 1793, and his daughter Marie Thérèse petitioned Rome for the canonization of her father. Pius VI hailed the late king as a martyr on 17 June 1793 in a meeting with cardinals, giving hope to a potential possibility of sainthood.
On 8 June 1795, the only surviving son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, referred to by the legitimists as 'Louis XVII of France', died while imprisoned in the Temple, and on 16 June, the exiled French royalists proclaimed the count of Provence king of France as Louis XVIII. Thus, Marie Joséphine became regarded as titular queen consort of ...