Louis VII of France

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/14341

king of France

Names

  • Hebrew: לואיש = LWʾYŚ 1

Attributes

  • Male
  • Birth: 1120
  • Death: 1180

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Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela1 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Louis VII of France: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 112 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 641 [Syriac].
    • Louis VII: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 275 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Louis VII of France” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14341.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; and gender assignment, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Laurel Kenner: Wikipedia matching
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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