Louis XI Crowned King of France
1461
The spider king, as his enemies would call him, was crowned at Reims. He would spend twenty-two years ruthlessly centralizing the French monarchy, breaking the great feudal magnates through treachery and patience rather than open war. Philippe de Commynes's memoirs of his reign remain one of the most honest political documents of the fifteenth century.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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