Louis VIII., the Lion, son of Philip Augustus; offered by the barons of England the crown of England, he was crowned at London in 1216, but defeated at Lincoln next year, he was obliged to recross the Channel; became king of France in 1223; he took several towns from the English, and conducted a crusade against the Albigenses (1187‒1226).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Louis VII., the Young * Louis IX., Saint Louis