LOUIS IX

born April 25, 1214, Poissy, Fr. died Aug. 25, 1270, near Tunis; canonized Aug. 11, 1297, feast day August 25 also called Saint Louis king of France from 1226 to 1270, the most popular of the Capetian monarchs. He led the Seventh Crusade to the Holy Land in 124850 and died on another crusade to Tunisia. Additional reading Among contemporary sources are Jean de Joinville, who lived close to the King for 25 years and wrote down his recollections between 1305 and 1309; and Queen Margaret's confessor, Guillaume de Saint-Pathus, Vie de Saint Louis, written in 130203.Modern works include Henri Wallon, Saint Louis et son temps, 2 vol. (1875), old but still useful. Jacques Levron, Saint Louis; ou, l'apoge du Moyen Age (1969), is a good recent study with an extensive bibliography. A number of books were published on the 700th anniversary of Louis IX's death. The most valuable of them, ed. by Rgine Pernoud, is a collection of articles by about 30 French and foreign historians: Le Sicle de Saint Louis (1970).