Louis XIV

By tim tom

  • Born

  • louis XIV takes over as king

  • Civil war known as Fronde

  • louis married

    22 year old louis married his first cousin Marie-Therese

  • Runnning by himslef

    after Mazarin's death louis XIV broke tradition and told the court he would rule without a chief minister.

  • Mooving the court

    most famously, he transformed a royal hunting lodge into one of the largest palaces in the world, moving the court and government there.

  • Married again

    Marquise de Maintenon who had served as his illegitimate children's governess; the two wed in private ceremony approximately one year after the death of queen marie-therese.
  • Period: to

    War

    in the 1680s responding to another spate of expansion campaigns by louis armies to and serval smaller countries formed a coalition known as the grand alliance. ensuring war, fought on both hemispheres.

  • Death of Louis XIV

    4 days before his 77th birthday he died of gangrene at Versailles, he reigned for 72 years, longer than any other known European monarch.