21.2 Louis VII of France Builds a Power Base

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

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🗓️ 27 November 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The story of France in the High Middle Ages, the reigns of Louis VI and Louis VII. As the twelfth century opened the kings of France barely controlled much land beyond Paris, but these two monarchs began to build the foundations for the French kings' great rise in power and prestige.

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0:29.0	Place must be 18 or over. Welcome to a history of Europe Key Battles, The Siege of Chateau Gaillade, part two of four.
0:57.2	Last week I talked about the period of English history after the Battle of Hastings
1:01.9	and up to the formation of the Angevin Empire,
1:05.7	a collection of territories brought together under the control of King Henry II of England.
1:12.4	Today I would like to cover the similar period more from the French perspective.
1:20.1	In a previous podcast on the Battle of Tours, I described the formation of the Kingdom of the Franks,
1:27.2	established by King Clovis in the generation after the fall of the Roman Empire.
1:33.3	This time was characterized by political instability caused by the tradition of dividing a king's territory between his surviving sons, and in a constant internecine conflict that resulted.
1:48.0	The key figure in reuniting the territories of modern-day France was Charles Martel,
1:53.4	who also successfully fended off attacks from the Muslim forces from Spain in the said Battle of Tours of the Year 732.
2:05.6	One of the key pillars of legitimacy for the Frankish kings ever since the days of Clovis
2:10.6	was their strong links to the Pope and the prestige that this brought. Christianity helped bind culturally the lands of France, England, Western Germany and Italy,
2:22.3	into an idea known as Christendom.
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