Four-year-old <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France" id="mwRg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Louis XIV of France">Louis XIV</a> becomes King of France upon the death of his father, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIII_of_France" id="mwRw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Louis XIII of France">Louis XIII</a>.