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 | | At this critical moment, when the way to the royal and imperial crown lay open to Philip of Swabia, he was murdered, on June 21, 1208, by Palagrave Otto of Wittelsbach. |
 | | Philip Augustus turning a deaf ear to all remon strances, the pope's cardinal legate, in a council at Dijon, declared the interdict upon all France, and when the clergy generally suspended public worship, the people revolted and the nobility took to arms. |
 | | Philip Augustus was at last constrained, on Sept. 7, 1200, to promise the papal legate, Cardinal Bishop Octaviano of Ostia, and Cardinal Giovanni Colonna, to take Ingeborg back a, queen and consort. |
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