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  Philip II of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A member of the Capetian dynasty, Philip Augustus was born August 21, 1165 at Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France, the son of Louis VII of France and his third wife, Adèle of Champagne.
Philip was a younger half-brother of Marie de Champagne, Alix of France, Marguerite of France and Alys, Countess of the Vexin.
Philip Augustus had not counted on Ingeborg, however; she insisted that the marriage had been consummated, and she was his wife and the rightful queen of France.
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 AllRefer.com - Philip II, king of France (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Philip II or Philip Augustus, 1165–1223, king of France (1180–1223), son of Louis VII.
Allied (Nov., 1188) with Richard, the rebellious son of King Henry II of England, Philip compelled Henry to cede several territories to him.
During Philip's reign the pope proclaimed the Crusade against the Albigenses.
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 PHILIP I. (FRANCE) - LoveToKnow Article on PHILIP I. (FRANCE)
Philip interfered, at the prayer of Arnulf's mother, Richildis; but the allies were defeated near Cassel on the 22nd of February 1071 and Arnulf slain.
Philip's predecessors had consolidated the Capetian power within these narrow limits, but he himself was overshadowed by the power of his uncles, William, archbishop of Reims; Henry I., count of Champagne; and Theobald V., count of Blois and Chartres.
Philip was defeated at Freteval on the 3rd of July 1194, but he continued the war, generally with ill success, for the next five years.
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 PHILIP II. (FRANCE) - LoveToKnow Article on PHILIP II. (FRANCE)
Meanwhile Philip himself won his greatest victory at the bridge of Bouvines, among the morasses of Flanders.
Philip's policy of building up a strong monarchy was pursued with a steadiness of aim which excluded both enthusiasm and scruple.
Philip Augustus died on the T4th of July 1223.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Philip II
Philip II sent William, Archbishop of Reims, to Henry VI to request that Richard should remain the captive of Germany or that he should be delivered to Philip as his prisoner.
This was sufficient to cause Philip to interfere in favour of Philip of Suabia.
Philip, however, was pious in his own way, and in the advice which St. Louis gave to his son he said that Philip, because of "God's goodness and mercy would rather lose his throne than dispute with the servants of Holy Church".
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 PHILIP II OF FRANCE FACTS AND INFORMATION
A member of the Capetian dynasty, Philip Augustus was born August_21, 1165 at Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France, the son of Louis_VII_of_France and his third wife, Adèle_of_Champagne.
Philip was a younger half-brother of Marie_de_Champagne, Alix_of_France, Marguerite_of_France and Alys,_Countess_of_the_Vexin.
Philip Augustus died July_14, 1223 at Mantes and was interred in Saint_Denis_Basilica.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Philip II (King of Spain)
At a solemn conference held at Brussels, 22 Oct., 1555, Charles V ceded to Philip the Low Countries, the crowns of Castille, Aragon, and Sicily, on 16 Jan., 1556, and the countship of Burgundy on the tenth of June.
Philip granted this on the most favourable terms and the Duke of Alva was even obliged to ask the pope's pardon for having invaded the Pontifical States.
Apparently Philip II failed to grasp the situation, since he continued for two years more the war against Henry IV, but his fruitless efforts were finally terminated in 1595 by the absolution of Henry IV by Clement VIII.
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 MSN Encarta - Crusades
It was against this background that Pope Urban II, in a speech at Clermont in France in November 1095, called for a great Christian expedition to free Jerusalem from the Seljuk Turks, a new Muslim power that had recently begun actively harassing peaceful Christian pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem.
These were Richard I, the Lion-Hearted of England, Philip II of France, and Frederick I, called Frederick Barbarossa, the Holy Roman Emperor.
Philip II had been spurred into taking up the Crusade by a need to match his rivals, and he returned home in 1191 with little concern for Eastern glories.
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 Livre tournois article - Livre tournois pound France Tours France Philip of France 1667 Louis sols deniers - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was initially used in the Tournois region and the west of France.
During the time of Philip II of France its use started to spread until it became the national and international currency of France (although the livre parisis was not officially abolished until 1667 by Louis XIV).
It was replaced (on March 27, 1803) by a new currency officially called the franc, although the names livre and franc had started to be used interchangeably for the livre tournois after 1360 (from the inscription on a one-livre coin reading Johannes Dei Gratia Francorum Rex), franc became widely used during the 17th century.
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 Philip II of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Philippe II Auguste (also called Philip Augustus) (August 21,1165 - July 14,1223) was King of France from 1180 to 1223.
A member of the Capetian dynasty, Philippe II was born August 21, 1165 at Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France, the son of Louis VII of France and his third wife, Adèle de Champagne.
King Philippe II Auguste died July 14, 1223 at Mantes and was interred in Saint Denis Basilica.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg63 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Philip II Augustus of France CAPET King of France [Parents] was born 21 Aug 1165 in Gonesse, Nr: Paris, France.
Philip II Augustus of France CAPET King of France was born 21 Aug 1165 and died 14 Jul 1223.
Adele (Alix) of France CAPET Princess was born 1170 and died 1221.
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 Alys, Countess of the Vexin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She was also an older half-sister to Philip II of France and Agnes of France.
As a child she was betrothed to Prince Richard of England and sent to England, but once there Alys was seduced by his father King Henry II of England and became his mistress after Eleanor of Aquitaine (ex-wife of Louis VII, wife of Henry II, mother of Richard) had been imprisoned by Henry.
Her brother, King Philip II of France, had offered her to Richard's younger brother Prince John in 1192, but Queen Mother Eleanor of Aquitaine put a stop to that.
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 HistoryMole: King Philip II (1527-1598)
Philip II of Spain, the son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, married Queen Mary I. This was his second marriage.
Philip II moved his court to Madrid, which was but a village until this time, and proclaimed Madrid as capital of Spain.
Philip II of Spain was proclaimed King of Portugal and united the colonial empires of Spain and Portugal.
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 Sly's Thirteenth Century TimeLine
Philip II of France continues Arthur's fight with England, and within the next three years increases his domain by annexing Normandy, Maine, Brittany, Anjou, Touraine, and Poitou.
Philip III of France fails an attempt at annexing the kingdom of Aragon.
Philip III of France dies, and his son Philip IV of France (called The Fair) is crowned.
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 King Philip II Capet (Augustus) of France (1165-1223)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Philip strengthened and thoroughly reorganized the central and local administrative arrangements, and established a council of able officials to aid him in the government.
Philip allied himself with Richard, duke of Aquitaine, who in 1189 became Richard I of England, and in 1190 the two kings embarked on the Third Crusade.
France prospered from his judicial, financial, and administrative reorganization of the government; serfdom declined, towns grew, and commerce flourished.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg59 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Philip V1 DE VALOIS King of France [Parents] [scrapbook] was born 1293.
Charles II the lame of NAPLES King of Naples [Parents] was born 1254.
Isabelle married Philip II Augustus of France CAPET King of France on 1180.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Philip II (of France)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Philip II (of France) (1165-1223), king of France (1180-1223), one of the most powerful European monarchs of the Middle Ages.
Third Crusade, role of Philip II of France
In the years between the failure of the Second Crusade and 1170, when the Muslim prince Saladin came to power in Egypt, the Latin States were on the...
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 Philip II of France
An alliance of European powers, including that of England, became concerned at the growing power of France and her armies and in 1214 went to war with King Philip II Philip II, born 1165, was the son of King Louis VII and became King of France in 1180 when his father died.
Philip II also gave the world the Louver, which at the time was built as a fortress, as well as giving a charter to the University of Paris in 1200.
With the act of relieving his nobles of their powers and the new prosperity he brought to the country, Philip was seen as a peoples King who became very popular amongst his subjects.
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 Philip II on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
By 348 Philip had annexed the Chalcidice (now Khalkidhikí), including Olynthus, and was involved in a war over Delphi between Phocis and its neighbors.
Philip's consolidation of his kingdom and his reduction of Greece to relative peace made possible the campaigns of his son, Alexander the Great.
Philip was the true founder of Alexander's army and trained some of his best generals, e.g., Antigonus Cyclops, Antipater, Nearchus, Parmenion, and Perdiccas.
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 PHILIP II, KING OF FRANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Philip II was King of France from 1180 to 1223.
Philip's penetration of Flanders was aided when Count Baldwin IX went on the Fourth Crusade to the Holy Land in 1202, leaving a small girl as heiress to the county.
Philip was free thereafter to intervene in southern France, where the crusade against the Albigenses gained the French crown important lands.
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 France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pope Urban II preached the First Crusade in French at the Council of Clermont in France.
The major European players in the Third Crusade were Philip II of France and Richard I of England.
England at the time, although often antagonistic to France, was quite close to France as well, having been controlled by Normans since 1066 and William the Conqueror.
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 Cateau-Cambrésis, Treaty of on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
kätō´-käNbrāzē´, 1559, concluded at Le Cateau, France, by representatives of Henry II of France, Philip II of Spain, and Elizabeth I of England.
France restored Savoy, except Saluzzo, to Duke Emmanuel Philibert, acknowledged Spanish hegemony over Italy, and consented to a rectification of its border with the Spanish Netherlands.
Henry II's sister, Margaret, was given in marriage to Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy; Henry's daughter, Elizabeth of Valois, was given to Philip II of Spain.
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 A short biography on some of Europe's most loved and hated Monarchs - Pt 6 Philip II
A short biography on some of Europe's most loved and hated Monarchs - Pt 6 Philip II Join me as we take a final trip back in time, discovering which Monarchs were tyrants, mentally unstable, drunks and psychotic, as well as those who were loved by their people.
Philip II, born 1165, was the son of King Louis VII and became King of France in 1180 when his father died.
Philip returned to France a year later whilst the French army remained in Outremer under the command of Hugues III, duke of Burgundy.
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 Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
Family considerations influenced much of his life: he fought along side of his brothers Prince Henry and Geoffrey in their rebellion of 1173-4; he fought for his father against his brothers when they supported an 1183 revolt in Aquitane; and he joined Philip II of France against his father in 1188, defeating Henry in 1189.
Philip II, in the meantime, returned to France and schemed with Richard's brother John.
The administrative machinery of Henry II insured the continuance of royal authority, as Richard was unable to return to his realm until 1194.
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 Philip II Of France Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Philip II (French: Philippe II), called Philip Augustus (French: Philippe Auguste) (August 21, 1165 July 14, 1223), was King of France from 1180 to 1223.
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