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Philip IV - "the Fair"of France, Capet (son of Philip III - "The Bold" Capet and Isabelle of Aragon)9216, 9217, 9218, 9219, 9220, 9221, 9222, 9223, 9224, 9225, 9226 was born 1268 in Fontainebleau, Seine Et Marne, France9227, 9228, and died November 29, 1314 in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, France9229, 9230. He married Jeanne Joanna de Navarre on August 16, 1284 in Notre Dame de Pa, Paris, Seine, France9231, 9232, daughter of Henry I - Enrique I - "Le Gros" de of Navarre and BlancheArtois, of Navarre, de.

 Includes NotesNotes for Philip IV - "the Fair"of France, Capet:
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!Known for his conflict with the papacy. Through marriage became the r uler of Navarre and Champagne. As a result of his financial needs, Phi lip greatly increased taxes, debased the coinage several times, and arr ested the Jews and the Lombards (Italian bankers), appropriating the as sets of the former and demanding large subsidies from the latter. [Fun k & Wagnalls]

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!King of France, 1285-1314. [Oxford History of Medieval Europe]

!Gave France a national standing army, supported by the king's treasury . Thus the old feudal levy disappeared in favor of a trained body of s oldiers. A large body of administrators was needed to look after the v arious affairs of the kingdom, and control of these officials was centr alized under the king. They were required to submit to him reports of t he progress of their work. Won the right to tax the clergy. [Outline H istory of Mankind]

!Son of Philippe III and Isabelle of Aragon; husband of Jeanne, Queen o f Navarre; father of Princess Isabelle. [Ped. of Charlemagne, Vol. I, p . 64; Vol.III, p. 105 ]

!Had Pope Benedict XI poisoned by two cardinals. Philip then placed Cl ement V in the papacy. [Nations of the World - Italy, Vol. XXV, p. 459]

The history of the royal family in France in 1314 is filled with scanda ls when the king's daughters-in-law were found to have committed adulte ry. [Edward I, p. 133]

Before 1300 Pope Boniface VIII had begun that quarrel with the French K ing Philip IV which was to last his life. Philip, following the advice o f counsellors trained in civil, rather than canon law, was building the s ecular
state, and elaborating its theory. When Boniface issued his Bull CLERIC IS LAICOS in 1296 to stop secular taxation of clergy without papal perm ission, Philip forced the Pope to back down.
In October 1301 Philip arrested one of his bishops on a charge of (a mong other things) treason, and asked the Pope to unfrock him so that h e could proceed to punishment. Boniface naturally insisted on an eccles iastical trial, and an acrimonious correspondence blew up, which was ma de much worse by the
circulation on both sides of forged letters, using even more disgracefu l phrases. For example Philip is supposed to have written, 'Philip, by t he grace of God, King of the Franks, to Boniface who gives himself out f or Supreme Pontiff, little or no greeting. Let your great fatuousness k now that....'
The quarrel grew larger, ending up with Philip, under the advice of h is chief Minister William Nogaret, who condemned the Pope as a heretic a nd usurper, and persuaded his King to call a General Council to depose h im in March 1303. William was sent off to Italy, and plotted with the C olonna to capture Boniface. In September they attacked Anagni, and forc ed their way in to the Pope.
Throughout the next day, looting and drinking, the attackers argued w hat to do. On the following day the citizens decided for them: rallying t o the Pope, they flung the invaders out, and brought Boniface out of pr ison into the market-place. The world was deeply shocked at the French a ction, and Boniface might have built on this for further victories; but h is pride was broken, and on 12 October of that same year he died. [Who' s Who in the Middle Ages, p. 45-46]

More About Philip IV - "the Fair"of France, Capet:
Burial: December 09, 1314, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.9233, 9234
Record Change: March 26, 20059234

More About Philip IV - "the Fair"of France, Capet and Jeanne Joanna de Navarre:
Marriage: August 16, 1284, Notre Dame de Pa, Paris, Seine, France.9235, 9236

Children of Philip IV - "the Fair"of France, Capet and Jeanne Joanna de Navarre are:
  1. +ISABELLA OF FRANCE (Plantagenet), b. Bet. 1292 - 1296, France9237, 9238, d. August 22, 1358, HERTFORD CASTLE, ENG9239, 9240.
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