Luigi VIII di Ludovicia
Louis VIII of Ludovicia | |
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Louis VIII just ascended to ludovician throne | |
King of Ludovicia | |
Coronation | 1 february 1993 |
Predecessor | Louis VII |
Heir Apparent | Crown Prince Louis of Ludovicia |
Prime Minister | Leopold von Altbishofen |
Personal informations | |
Born | 11 november 1968 at Ludovicia, Kingdom of Ludovicia |
Spouse | Mary von Turbighen |
Issue | Louis, crown prince |
Full name | Louis Francis Charles Dieudonné |
House | House of Ludovicia |
Father | Louis VII |
Mother | Louise de Coulomb |
Religion | Church of Ludovicia |
Signature | --- |
Louis VIII (Louis Francis Charles Dieudonné; born 11 november 1968 in Ludovicia) is the current king of Kingdom of Ludovicia.
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Biography
First years
Luigi was born in Royal Palace of Lodovicia on 11 November 1968 by Louis VII, king of Ludovicia, and his wife, the Duchess Louise de Coulomb. He was second-born after his brother Louis Antoine who perhaps died in 1974 during an accident, so he was proclaimed crown prince.
Since 1974 he was entrusted for his education to a teacher in the figure of Georges de La Valliere, who in the wake of what were the beginnings of Rohan-Lefevre Crisis grave him a religious education, believing that such practice was necessary for the proper administration of the kingdom. After the expulsion of the bishop Rohan-Lefevre and the consequent resignation of La Valliere, the little Louis was entrusted to Jean Baptiste De Huguemont, a noble descendant of a family originally from the Ardennes, in France, which bringed him to military career and predisposed him to studies of different languages including, in addition to French, English, German band Latin. With his brother Daniel, he learned playing piano and violin, often making concerts to delight his father's court. So he attended the "Louis Amadee" Institute of Ludovicia and then passed to the University of Ludovicia since 1986 where he studied mathematics. In 1988 he visited Paris where stayed three months and visited Britain three times between 1988 and 1990.
Years of opposition
When in 1976 his father Louis VII appointed as his personal advisor the bishop of Port Royale, the influential Louis Rohan-Lefevre, Louis began to hatch a deep impatience with the overwhelming ludovician church government on state affairs, especially as concerned his personal education and the political choices of the state. With the support of his uncle Jean Gaston of Orléans-Ludovicia, the young Louis became the symbol of the moderate opposition to the monarchy, or the party that, while maintaining the monarchical regime in act, was intended to downsizing the profoundly changing in its costumes reducing greatly the power of the local church with Rohan-Lefevre bishop had gained excessive influence in all fields. The extremist fringe of the movement even came to propose it as a successor to his father, but it was his same father who, fearing that his son could be exploited to build a coup, decided to sack the Bishop of Port Royale and pursue a more favorable policy to Ministers. Louis during these years, and until the death of his father, was particularly close to the conservative Prime Minister Karl Kirchbach that de facto ruled the state since Louis VII started to gradually reduce its output after the crisis.
Rising the power
After the death of Louis VII, the trone passed at his son Louis Francis, who was solemnly crowned with the name of Louis VIII. He, unlike his father, in the years of the crisis, had harbored a deep hatred of lax administration of the father and why he devoted himself immediately to the consolidation of personal power of the king at the expense of government personalities and influence reached the main characters who had governed the fate of the government in previous years. Since 1994, therefore, he decided to fully renew the Government Cabinet by appointing conservative count Leopold von Altbishofen as prime minister. Since 1996 he ushered in a series of reforms with the aim of promoting the freedom of religion on national soil, removing the influence of the Catholic Church accumulated before and during the period of the Rohan-Lefevre crisis, reopening local brothels (including those in the capital), partially legalizing the use of drugs, but while strengthening the police and the secret police controls in the whole state. Also he intensified the army and the national navy.
Quirky character, invested considerable money for the construction of a new personal residence about 30 kilometers away from the capital, implanting there a great system of channels to bring huge amounts of water from the river Ludovicia to create spectacular water features and beautiful fountains. At the same time he decided to open the gardens to all in order to improve domestic tourism, and to allow all his subjects to enjoy the renewed peace under his rule.
Marriage and children
In 1991, the then crown prince Luigi Francis married the duchess Mary von Turbighen, daughter of a general of austrian origins. The couple had the following children:
- Louis Philippe, crown prince (b. 1993)
- Ludovica, royal princess (b. 1995)
- Isabella, royal princess (b. 1997)
Honours
National orders
- Grand Master and Knight of the Order of Saint Louis
- Grand Master and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Military Merit
- Grand Master and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Ludovicia
- Grand Master and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Cultural Merit
- Grand Master and Member of I class of Order of Cock
- Patron of Order of Breast
Foreigns orders
Bibliography
- L. von Altbishofen, The great house of kings of Ludovicia from its origins to the present day, Ludovicia's Royal Print, 2015
Predecessor | King of Ludovicia | Successor |
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Louis VII | 1993 - present | Incumbent |