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Hugh Capet
- Ruled 987-996
- Established Paris as a capital
- Started a bureacracy (tax collectors, accountants, finance)
- Founder of Capetian Dynasty
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Louis VII
- Ruled 1137-1180
- Married Eleanor of Aquitane
- They divorced after getting into an argument during a crusade and Eleanor married Henry II, a rival of Louis VII
- Used Law of Consanguinity to divorce
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Philip II Augustus
- Ruled 1180-1223
- Was part of the King's Crusade
- Made a national tax to make and train an army
- In 1202 Phillip II took Normandy from John
- Accused the Cathars (a group that believed they were descendants of Jesus) of heresy/blasphemy
- Destroyed the Cathars as a result with support from Pope Innocent III
- Cathars were also known as Albigensians
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Louis VIII
- Ruled 1223-1226
- Said Jews couldn't have their debt recorded
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Louis X
- Ruled 1314-1316
- Became a saint.
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