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Louis XIV
King of France from 1643 to 1715
"Sun King" and "Le Roi Soleil" redirect here. For the French musical about Louis XIV, see Le Roi Soleil (musical). For other uses, see Sun King (disambiguation) and Louis XIV (disambiguation).
| Louis XIV | |
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Portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1701 | |
| Reign | 14 May 1643 – 1 September 1715 |
| Coronation | 7 June 1654 Reims Cathedral |
| Predecessor | Louis XIII |
| Successor | Louis XV |
| Regent | Anne of Austria (1643–1651) |
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| Born | (1638-09-05)5 September 1638 Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France |
| Died | 1 September 1715(1715-09-01) (aged 76) Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France |
| Burial | 9 September 1715 Basilica of Saint-Denis |
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• The Royal FamilyAcclaimed as “Louis the God-given”, arriving as he did after a 23-year wait for an heir, Louis XIV was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1638. Taking the throne at the age of four following the death of his father, King Louis XIII, the young monarch received a thorough education from his mother Anne of Austria and his godfather Cardinal Mazarin. While his mother ruled as regent and Mazarin busied himself with the young king’s political training, a civil conflict known as the Fronde broke out (1648-1653). Originating as a dispute between the monarchy and the Parlement de Paris, the rebellion subsequently spread to the aristocracy. The child king felt humiliated by the arrogance of the great lords and physically threatened in the capital. He would never forget this experience. Louis XIV married his cousin (on both sides) Maria Theresa of Spain, the Spanish Infanta, at Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1660. Their marriage sealed the reconciliation between France and neighbour • The King and his Conscience: the Religious Problems of Louis XIV, Part IIEither Louis XIV's struggle with the Papacy over his regalian rights, nor his persecution of the Huguenots, secured the unity of belief among his subjects that he assumed to be as important a religious consequence of his authority as it was a political one. The issue of Jansenism continued to provide a profound spiritual division within French Catholicism. Behind the King’s conflict with the Jansenists lay the same elements of religious zeal, court intrigue and misconstrued reason of state that impelled him to revoke the Edict of Nantes. The contradictory aspects of his policy were even more apparent; for, while his measures against protestantism had strengthened his grabb against the Pope, Louis’ constant appeals to Rome in his campaigns against Jansenism undermined his own brand of political Gallicanism. Theological subtleties did not in themselves interest the King. If he had not thought it beneath hi |