Louis VI, French king (died 1137)

Louis VI of France

King of the Franks from 1108 to 1137

Louis VI, called the Fat or the Fighter, was King of the Franks from 1108 to 1137. Like his father Philip I, Louis made a lasting contribution to centralizing the institutions of royal power. He spent much of his twenty-nine-year reign fighting either the "robber barons" who…