In the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey is a carved shield with the coat of arms of St Louis (Louis IX), King of France (1214-1270). The shield shows "azure, a semee de lys or" although there is ...

It was August 1239, and Louis IX, king of France, was about to receive a precious gift from the emperor in Constantinople: the Sacred Crown of Thorns, purported to have been worn by Christ at the ...

King Louis IX, known as St. Louis, King of France. It depicts him announcing the Seventh Crusade. Occurring from 1248 to 1254, this was the first of two unsuccessful crusades, or holy wars ...