King of the Franks Louis Capet, VI

1081 - 1137  (55 years)

• Name	Louis Capet  [1, 2, 3]
  Title	King of the Franks
  Suffix	VI
  Birth	1 Dec 1081	Paris, Île-de-France, France   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Military - Old World	1108  [3]
  	Almost all of his twenty-nine-year reign was spent fighting either the "robber barons" who plagued Paris or the Norman kings of England for their continental possession of Normandy
  Eden	96th great grandson of Adam and Eve
  Death	1 Aug 1137	Paris, Île-de-France, France   [1, 2, 3]
  	Bethizy Castle
  Burial	St Denis, Cher, Centre, France   [2, 3]
  	Basilica of Saint Denis
  		Tomb-CAPET King Louis VI Louis VI - Saint Denis Basilique + https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21089/louis_vi
  Person ID	I9972	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	King of the Franks Philippe Capet, I,   b. 23 May 1053, Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France d. 29 Jul 1108, Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France (Age 55 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Bertha de Hainault,   b. 1054, Vlaardingen, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands d. 30 Jul 1093, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France (Age 39 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1072	Holland, Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands   [1, 4]
  	Philip repudiated Bertha (claiming she was too fat) so he could marry Bertrade
  Family ID	F3054	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Queen Consort Adélaïde de Savoie,   b. 1092, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France d. 18 Nov 1154, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	Apr 1115	Paris, Île-de-France, France   [1, 3]
  Children	1. King of France Louis Capet, VII,   b. 1120, Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France d. 18 Sep 1180, Paris, Île-de-France, France (Age 60 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Constance Capet,   b. 1124, Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France d. 16 Aug 1176, Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France (Age 52 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Peter de Courtenay, I,   b. Sep 1126, France d. 10 Apr 1183, Israel (Age 56 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3551	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1 Dec 1081 - Paris, Île-de-France, France Marriage - Apr 1115 - Paris, Île-de-France, France Death - 1 Aug 1137 - Paris, Île-de-France, France Burial - - St Denis, Cher, Centre, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Ancestors

  ~Eden-Louis VI On Our Path to the Garden of Eden (96th great grandson of Adam and Eve) Louis VI, called the Fat or the Fighter, was King of the Franks from 1108 to 1137.

  
  

  Burials

  Tomb-CAPET King Louis VI Louis VI - Saint Denis Basilique + https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21089/louis_vi

  
  

  Old World

  _Louis VI of France Louis VI (1 December 1081 – 1 August 1137), called the Fat (French: le Gros), was King of the Franks from 1108 until his death (1137). Chronicles called him "roi de Saint-Denis".

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. [S10709] FindAGrave Old World (Famous), Louis VI 1081-1137 - King of France. French Royalty. Born in Paris, Louis was the only son and heir of King Philip I and his wife Bertha of Holland. He was called "The Fat" (Le Gros) for obvious reasons. Due to his father's failing health, Louis held the reigns of power long before Philip's death on 29 July 1108. Much of his 29-year reign was spent fighting French barons over the crown lands, or the English King Henry I over the possession of Normandy. Louis married Lucienne de Rochefort in 1104, and they had one daughter, Isabelle. Louis had the marriage annulled three years later. He then married Adelaide de Maurienne, a princess of Savoy, on 3 August 1115. They had eight children. Louis was the first of the Capetian dynasty rulers to make lasting inroads toward centralizing royal power in France. He died of dysentery at the castle of Bethisy-Saint-Pierre at the age of 55. He was succeeded by his son Louis (the Young), who was better suited to, and intended for, a monastic life rather than the throne. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21089/louis_vi [S930] Wikipedia: Louis VI, Louis Capet IV. Louis VI (c.1081 – 1 August 1137), called the Fat (French: le Gros) or the Fighter (French: le Batailleur), was King of the Franks from 1108 to 1137, the fifth from the House of Capet. Chronicles called him "roi de Saint-Denis". Louis VI Louis was the first member of his house to make a lasting contribution to the centralizing institutions of royal power.[1] He spent almost all of his twenty-nine-year reign fighting either the "robber barons" who plagued Paris[2] or the Norman kings of England for their continental possession of Normandy. Nonetheless, Louis VI managed to reinforce his power considerably and became one of the first strong kings of France since the death of Charlemagne in 814. Louis was a warrior king but by his forties his weight had become so great that it was increasingly difficult for him to lead in the field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_VI_of_France [S355] Wikipedia: Philip I of France, Philippe Capet I. Philip I (23 May 1052 – 29 July 1108), called the Amorous, was King of the Franks from 1060 to 1108, the fourth from the House of Capet. His reign, like that of most of the early Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the time. The monarchy began a modest recovery from the low it reached in the reign of his father and he added to the royal demesne the Vexin and Bourges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_I_of_France