Louis VI crowned King of France
August 3, 1108
Louis the Fat inherited a Capetian kingdom that scarcely reached past Orleans. Over three decades he would spend his considerable energy hunting down robber barons between Paris and the Loire, turning a patchwork lordship into something that finally felt like royal domain. His patient castle-by-castle subjugation of the petty lords of the Ile-de-France gave his Capetian successors the territorial base from which they would eventually build a nation.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.