King Of France Philippe II Augustus CAPET
- Born: 21 Aug 1165
- Marriage: (1): Ingeborg Valdemarsdottir DENMARK
- Marriage: (2): Agnes DE MERAN
- Marriage: (3): Isabella DE HAINAULT 28 Apr 1180
- Died: 14 Jul 1223 at age 57
 General
Notes:
Burial , St. Denis, France
Byname PHILIP AUGUSTUS, French PHILIPPE AUGUSTE, the first of the great Capetian
kings of medieval France (reigned 1179-1223), who gradually reconquered the
French territories held by the kings of England and also furthered the royal
domains northward into Flanders and southward into Languedoc. He was a major
figure in the Third Crusade to the Holy Land in 1191.
Philip was the son
of Louis VII of France and Adela of Champagne. In order to be associated as king
with his father, who had fallen mortally ill, he was crowned at Reims on Nov. 1,
1179. His uncles of the House of Champagne--Henry I, Count of Champagne;
Guillaume, archbishop of Reims; and Thibaut V, Count of Blois and
Chartres--hoped to use the youthful king to control France. To escape from their
tutelage, Philip, on April 28, 1180, married Isabella, the daughter of Baldwin V
of Hainault and the niece (through her mother) of Philip of Alsace, the Count of
Flanders, who promised to give the King the territory of Artois as her dowry.
When Henry II of England arrived in Normandy, perhaps with the intention of
responding to an appeal by the House of Champagne, Philip II entered into
negotiations with him and, at Gisors on June 28, 1180, renewed an understanding
that Louis VII had reached with him in 1177. As a result, the House of Champagne
was politically isolated, and Philip II was making all decisions for himself and
acting as he saw fit when his father died, on Sept. 18, 1180, leaving him sole
king in name as well as in fact.
When the Count of Flanders allied
himself with the Champagne faction, there followed a serious revolt against the
King. In the Peace of Boves, in July 1185 (confirmed by the Treaty of Gisors in
May 1186), the King and the Count of Flanders composed their differences (which
had been chiefly over possession of Vermandois, in Picardy), so that the
disputed territory was partitioned, Amiens and numerous other places passing to
the King and the remainder, with the county of Vermandois proper, being left
provisionally to Philip of Alsace. Thenceforward the King was free to run
against Henry II of England.
He caused the streets of Paris to be paved,
as the mud, which gave the town its Roman nickname of "Lutecia" or Mudville, was
sm smelly and nasty. He went on a Crusade with King Richard of England, during
which he caught the malaria which eventually killed him. [91502.ftw]
Burial , St. Denis, France
Byname PHILIP AUGUSTUS, French PHILIPPE
AUGUSTE, the first of the great Capetian kings of medieval France (reigned
1179-1223), who gradually reconquered the French territories held by the kings
of England and also furthered the royal domains northward into Flanders and
southward into Languedoc. He was a major figure in the Third Crusade to the Holy
Land in 1191.
Philip was the son of Louis VII of France and Adela of
Champagne. In order to be associated as king with his father, who had fallen
mortally ill, he was crowned at Reims on Nov. 1, 1179. His uncles of the House
of Champagne--Henry I, Count of Champagne; Guillaume, archbishop of Reims; and
Thibaut V, Count of Blois and Chartres--hoped to use the youthful king to
control France. To escape from their tutelage, Philip, on April 28, 1180,
married Isabella, the daughter of Baldwin V of Hainault and the niece (through
her mother) of Philip of Alsace, the Count of Flanders, who promised to give the
King the territory of Artois as her dowry.
When Henry II of England
arrived in Normandy, perhaps with the intention of responding to an appeal by
the House of Champagne, Philip II entered into negotiations with him and, at
Gisors on June 28, 1180, renewed an understanding that Louis VII had reached
with him in 1177. As a result, the House of Champagne was politically isolated,
and Philip II was making all decisions for himself and acting as he saw fit when
his father died, on Sept. 18, 1180, leaving him sole king in name as well as in
fact.
When the Count of Flanders allied himself with the Champagne
faction, there followed a serious revolt against the King. In the Peace of
Boves, in July 1185 (confirmed by the Treaty of Gisors in May 1186), the King
and the Count of Flanders composed their differences (which had been chiefly
over possession of Vermandois, in Picardy), so that the disputed territory was
partitioned, Amiens and numerous other places passing to the King and the
remainder, with the county of Vermandois proper, being left provisionally to
Philip of Alsace. Thenceforward the King was free to run against Henry II of
England.
He caused the streets of Paris to be paved, as the mud, which
gave the town its Roman nickname of "Lutecia" or Mudville, was sm smelly and
nasty. He went on a Crusade with King Richard of England, during which he caught
the malaria which eventually killed him.
Philippe married Ingeborg
Valdemarsdottir DENMARK. (Ingeborg Valdemarsdottir DENMARK was born about 1170.)
Philippe next married Agnes DE
MERAN. (Agnes DE MERAN was born about 1170.)
Philippe next married Isabella DE
HAINAULT, daughter of Baldwin V DE HAINAULT and Margaret DE LORRAINE, on 28 Apr
1180. (Isabella DE HAINAULT was born on 5 Apr 1170 in Valencinnes, Haunaut,
Belgium and died on 15 Mar 1189-1190 in Paris, Seine, France.)
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