Louis XIII of France (King of France 1610 to 1643)

Louis XIII (September 1601 – May 1643) was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1610 to 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged to the French crown.

Louis succeeded his father Henry IV as king of France and Navarre a few months before his ninth birthday. His mother, Marie de’ Medici, acted as regent during Louis’s minority. Mismanagement of the kingdom and ceaseless political intrigues by Marie de’ Medici and her Italian favourites led the young king to take power in 1617 by exiling his mother and executing her followers, including Concino Concini, the most influential Italian at the French court.

Louis XIII relied heavily on his chief minister Cardinal Richelieu to govern the kingdom of France.

Father:  Henry IV of France
Mother:  Marie de’ Medici
Spouse: Anne of Austria

Offspring:   Louis XIV of France Philippe I, Duke of Orléans

• Nicolas Poussin
• Anne of Austria
• Louis XIV (King of France 1643 – 1715)
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• Saturday 27 February 1644
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• Thursday 4 February 1644

• Wikipedia article on Louis XIII

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