Editing Louis XIII (section)

==Early life, 1601–1610==
Born at the [[Palace of Fontainebleau]], Louis XIII was the eldest child of King [[Henry IV of France]] and his second wife [[Marie de' Medici]]. As son of the king, he was a [[Fils de France]] ("son of France"), and as the eldest son, [[Dauphin of France]]. His father Henry IV was the first French king of the [[House of Bourbon]], having succeeded his second cousin, [[Henry III of France|Henry III]] (1574–1589), in application of [[Salic law]]. Louis XIII's paternal grandparents were [[Antoine de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme]], and [[Jeanne d'Albret]], Queen of Navarre. His maternal grandparents were [[Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany]], and [[Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany]]. [[Eleonora de' Medici]], his maternal aunt, was his [[godparent|godmother]].<ref>{{Harvnb|James|1897|pp=[https://archive.org/details/paintersandthei00ngoog/page/n430 421]}}</ref> As a child, he was raised under the supervision of the royal governess [[Françoise de Montglat]].

The ambassador of King [[James I of England]] to the court of France, [[Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury|Sir Edward Herbert]], who presented his credentials to Louis XIII in 1619, remarked on Louis's extreme congenital speech impediment and his [[Hyperdontia|double teeth]]:
{{quotation|...I presented to the King [Louis] a letter of credence from the King [James] my master: the King [Louis] assured me of a reciprocal affection to the King [James] my master, and of my particular welcome to his Court: his words were never many, as being so extream {{sic}} a stutterer that he would sometimes hold his tongue out of his mouth a good while before he could speak so much as one word; he had besides a double row of teeth, and was observed seldom or never to spit or blow his nose, or to sweat much, 'tho he were very laborious, and almost indefatigable in his exercises of hunting and hawking, to which he was much addicted...<ref>{{Harvnb|Herbert of Cherbury|1830|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=9mALAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA116 116]}}</ref>}}