Margaret was later convicted of adultery, was imprisoned in Château Gaillard, caught a cold and died in 1315,[6] although another source states that she was strangled to death.

[9][10] With an unknown woman, Louis had a daughter, Eudeline, who joined the Order of St. Claire[11] and became the abbess of the Franciscan nuns of Paris, 1334-1339.

His reign was dominated by continual feuding with the noble factions within the kingdom, and major reforms designed to increase royal revenues, such as the freeing of the French serfs and the readmittance of the Jews.

[14] Charles of Valois took advantage of this movement to turn against his old enemy, Philip IV's former minister and chamberlain Enguerrand de Marigny, and convinced Louis to bring corruption charges against him.

When these failed, Charles then convinced Louis to bring sorcery charges against him instead, which proved more effective and led to de Marigny's execution at Vincennes in April 1315.

[16] This, combined with the halting of Philip's reforms, the issuing of numerous charters of rights[16] and a reversion to more traditional rule, largely assuaged the regional leagues.

[23] Philip IV had attempted to assert royal overlordship, but his army, led by Robert II of Artois, had been defeated at Courtrai in 1302;[23] despite a later French victory at the Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle the relationship remained testy and unsettled.

Louis mobilised an army along the Flemish border, but the French position rapidly became strained by the demands of maintaining a wartime footing.

This proved challenging to enforce, and the king had to pressure officers of the Church in the borderlands,[24] as well as Edward II of England, to support his effort to prevent Spanish merchant vessels from trading with the embargoed Flemish.

[25] An unintended result of the embargo was the rise of smuggling activities that reduced the advantage (and consequently the amount) of trading in compliance with royal restrictions in the border region.

Louis was unhappy with playing tennis outdoors and accordingly had indoor, enclosed courts made in Paris "around the end of the 13th century".

[27] On 5 June 1316 at Vincennes, following a particularly exhausting game, Louis drank a large quantity of cooled wine and subsequently died of either pneumonia or pleurisy, although there were also suspicions of poisoning.

All de jure monarchs of Navarre from 1328 onwards were descended from Louis through his daughter, Joan, including Jeanne d'Albret, the mother of Henry IV of France, and therefore the entire royal House of Bourbon.

Louis is a major character in Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings), a series of French historical novels by Maurice Druon.