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Philip II Augustusof France, Capet (son of Louis VII "The Younger"of France, Capet and Alix (Adele Adaele) de Champagne)9193, 9194, 9195, 9196, 9197, 9198, 9199 was born August 21, 1165 in Gonesse, near Paris, Seine, France9200, 9201, and died July 14, 1223 in Mantes, France9202, 9203. He married Isabella of Hainault on April 28, 11809204, 9205.

 Includes NotesNotes for Philip II Augustusof France, Capet:
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!One of the most powerful European monarchs of the Middle Ages. He inc reased the royal power not only by extending the royal domain but also b y reducing the power of the feudal lords. He replaced the noble office rs at court with an advisory council appointed from the middle class an d supported the communes against the nobles. France prospered from his j udicial, financial, and administrative reorganization of the government ; serfdom declined, towns grew, and commerce flourished. Philip establ ished Paris as the fixed capital of France, paved the streets, and had m any new buildings constructed in the city. [Funk & Wagnalls]

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!One of the moving spirits behind the Third Crusade. The French and En glish slowly proceeded to the siege of Acre, which was enlivened by the q uarrels between the two nationalities. After 2 years the Christians fi nally captured the town in 1191. Philip, however, becaue angry and des erted the Crusade. [Outline History of Mankind]

!Pope Innocent laid an interdict upon the kingdom until Philip Augustus t ook back his first wife. [Outline History of Mankind]

!Ruled from 1180-1223. To him, more than to any other French monarch, i s due the credit for the growth in power and prestige of the kingship. P hilip was successful in the fields of administration, war, and diplomac y. He gave the townspeople a place in the administration of Paris, and t heir representatives met with the nobles and clergy. Philip, among all t he kings of medieval France, was alone in his aid to the townspeople in e stablishing new communes, and the rents he derived from them increased h is revenue. Royal finances
improved under Philip. He levied heavy taxes, forced the feudal nobles t o pay him fees, and resorted to borrowing from the Templars and the Jew ish bankers. [Outline HIstory of Mankind]

!The great accomplishment of Philip was the increase in the royal domai n. For years Philip struggled to gain the French holdings of Henry II o f England, but not until the reigh of John was he successful in defeati ng his greatest vassals. Thus he acquired Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and T ouraine, but the struggle with England was to go on intermittently for m any decades. [Outline History of Mankind]

!Although many of the great lords continued to keep their holdings unde r Philip, he made them feel the force of his power, and invaded their o nce supreme rights in their own territories. Part of this influence wa s gained by
interference with marriages and part by skillful diplomacy. Philip acq uired something of a half-interest in many fiefs; he dictated appointme nts and received part of the revenue, which he demanded be paid in curr ency. As time went on, the royal interest in these great holdings beca me more and more dominant. [Outline History of Mankind]

!M.1. Isabelle; father of Louis VIII; son of Louis VII and Alix of Cham pagne. [Ped. of Charlemagne, Vol. I, p. 64]

!He was hailed by the Franks as Dieu-Donne, "the God-given" -- a king t hey hoped would be a hammer to the King of the English. [Eleanor of Aq uitaine, p. 231]

!Even at 15, when he had assumed the throne, he had worn his toughness l ike an ominous challenge to the Plantagenets. He had none of the chari sma, none of the humor and grace, that marked even the least of Eleanor 's sons. In adolescence he had been ill-kempt, nervous, and subject to s ickly fears and hallucinations;
his intellectual gifts were modest -- he cared so little for books that h e failed to learn Latin -- but, nevertheless, he owned a kind of keen p ractical intelligence. At 20 he was clever, humorless, dogmatic, and c oldly calculating. Obsessed by the dream of destroying Plantagenet rule o n the Continent, he had already discovered that his most powerful allie s against Henry Plantagenet were Henry's own sons. [Eleanor, p. 293]

!In 1203 he captured the Plantagenet castles of Domfront, Le Mans, Fala ise, Bayeux, Lisieux, Caen, Avranches, and Chateau Gaillard, chasing Ki ng John from the Continent. [Eleanor, p. 354]

King of France, Crusader; son of Louis VII of France and Alix de Champa gne; m. Isabelle de Hainaut. [Charlemagne & Others, Chart 2920b, 2921b]

King of France from 1180-1223.

Son of Louis VII and Adele de Blois de Champagne; m. June 1196 Agnes d' Andechs de Meranie and was fathe rof Maire de France who m. Henri I, du c de Brabant. Ascending lineage from Catherine Baillon to Charlemagne < http://habitant.org/baillon/figure2.htm]



More About Philip II Augustusof France, Capet:
Burial: Unknown, St Denis, France.9206, 9207
Christening: , Paris, Seine, France.9208, 9209
Record Change: February 11, 20069209

More About Philip II Augustusof France, Capet and Isabella of Hainault:
Marriage: April 28, 11809210, 9211

 Includes NotesMarriage Notes for Philip II Augustusof France, Capet and Isabella of Hainault:
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# ID: I5338
# Name: Phillip II Augustus Capet de France (King of France - 1180-1223 )
# Sex: M
# Birth: 22 AUG 1165 in Gonesse,Paris,Ile-de-France,France
# Death: 14 JUL 1223 in Mantes-la-Jolie,Ile-de-France,France
# Burial: Abbey of St. Denis,Saint- Denis,Seine-Saint-Denis,France
# Note:

Philip II of France
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Philippe II, Auguste (Philip Augustus) was King of France from 1180 t o 1223.

A member of the Capetian dynasty, Philippe II was born August 21, 1 165 at Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France, the son of Louis VII of France and h is third wife, Adèle de Champagne.

In declining health, his father had him crowned at Reims in 1179.

He was married on April 28, 1180 to Isabelle of Hainaut (April 1170 - M arch 15, 1190) and they had one son:
i. Louis VIII (September 5, 1187 - November 8, 1226)

A few years after Isabelle's passing, on August 15, 1193 he married I ngeborg of Denmark (1175-1236). The marriage produced no children and e nded in divorce.

King Philippe II married for a third time on May 7, 1196 to Princes s Agnès of Méranie (c.1180 - July 29, 1201. Their children were:
i. Philippe Hurepel (1200 - 1234)
ii. Marie (1198 - October 15, 1224)

As king, he would become one of the most successful in consolidatin g France into one royal domain. He seized the territories of Maine, Tou raine, Anjou, Brittany, and all of Normandy from King John of England. H is decisive victory at the Battle of Bouvines over King John and a coal ition of forces that included Otto IV of Germany ended the immediate th reat of challenges to this expansion (1214) and left Philippe as the mo st powerful monarch in all of Europe.

He reorganized the government, bringing to the country a financial s tability which permitted a sharp increase in prosperity. His reign was p opular with ordinary people when he checked the power the nobles and pa ssed some of it on to the growing middle class his reign had created.

He went on the Third Crusade with Richard the Lionhearted and the H oly Roman Emperor, Frederick I Barbarossa (1189-1192).

King Philippe would play a significant role in one of the greatest c enturies of innovation in construction and in education. With Paris as h is capital, he had the main thoroughfares paved, built a central market , Les Halles, continued the construction begun in 1163 of the Gothic No tre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, constructed the Louvre as a fortress and g ave a charter to the University of Paris (the Sorbonne) in 1200. Under h is guidance, Paris became the first city of teachers the medieval world h ad known.

King Philippe II Auguste died July 14, 1223 at Mantes and was inter red in Saint Denis Basilica. He was succeeded by his son by Isabelle of H ainaut, Louis VIII.

# Change Date: 19 JUL 2003 at 17:13:59

Father: Louis VII ('the Young') Capet de France (King of France - 1137- 1180) b: 1120 in Reims,Marne,Champagne,France
Mother: Adela (Alix) de Champagne b: 1140 in Blois,France

Marriage 1 Isabella de Hainaut (Queen of France) b: 5 APR 1170 in Valen ciennes,Hainault,Holland

* Married: 28 APR 1180 in Bapaume,Normandy,France

Children

1. Has Children Louis VIII ('the Lion') Capet de France (King of Fra nce - 1223-1226) b: 3 SEP 1187 in Paris,Seine,Ile-de-France,France
2. Has No Children Adèle de Hainault b: 1190 in Hainault,Flanders,Be lgium


Marriage 2 Ingeborg fra Danmark b: 1175

* Married: 15 AUG 1193


Marriage 3 Agnes di Merano b: 1180 in Andechs,Oberbayern,Bavaria,German y

* Married: 7 MAY 1196

Children

1. Has No Children Marie Capet (Princess of France) b: 1198 in Franc e
2. Has No Children Phillip Hurepel (Prince of France) b: 1200 in Fra nce

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11feb2006

Children of Philip II Augustusof France, Capet and Isabella of Hainault are:
  1. +Louis VIII - "the Lion"of France, Capet, b. September 04, 1187, Paris, Seine, France9212, 9213, d. November 08, 1226, Montpensier Chateau, Montpensier, Puy-de-Dome, France9214, 9215.
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