Louis IX: References & Edit History

Among contemporary sources are Jean de Joinville, who lived close to the King for 25 years and wrote down his recollections between 1305 and 1309; and Queen Margaret’s confessor, Guillaume de Saint-Pathus, Vie de Saint Louis, written in 1302–03.

Modern works include Henri Wallon, Saint Louis et son temps, 2 vol. (1875), old but still useful. Jacques Levron, Saint Louis; ou, l’apogée du Moyen Age (1969), is a good recent study with an extensive bibliography. A number of books were published on the 700th anniversary of Louis IX’s death. The most valuable of them, ed. by Régine Pernoud, is a collection of articles by about 30 French and foreign historians: Le Siècle de Saint Louis (1970).