13TH CENTURY

13th century[edit]

Year	Date	Event
1214	27 July	Battle of Bouvines: The French army defeated a combined English-Flemish force, enabling the kingdom to consolidate its control overAnjou, Brittany, Maine, Normandy and the Touraine.
1223	14 July	Philip II died. He was succeeded by his son Louis VIII, the Lion.
1226	8 November	Louis died. He was succeeded by his son Louis IX.
1241	June	Louis IX announced that the County of Poitiers would go to his brother Alphonse – offending Isabella of Angoulême, whose son would have inherited the territory had the English won the Battle of Bouvines.
1242	20 May	Saintonge War: Henry III of England arrived with an army in support of Isabella's claim to Poitiers.
1270	25 August	Louis IX died. He was succeeded by his son Philip III.
1285	5 October	Philip III died. He was succeeded by his son Philip IV.
1297		Louis IX was canonized by Pope Boniface VIII, and was from then on better known as Saint Louis. He is the only French monarch to be declared a saint.