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| | Philippe II |
 | | Philippe II, known as Philip Augustus, King of France, son of Louis VII and Adela, daughter of Theobald II, count of Champagne, was born on the 21st of August 1165. |
 | | King Henry II of England was feudal lord of the greater part of France, practically all west of a line which began at Dieppe and ended at the foot of the Pyrenees more than halfway across to the Mediterranean, while at one point it nearly touched the Rhone. |
 | | His baillis, who at first rather resembled the itinerant justices of Henry II of England, were sent into the royal domain to supervise the conduct of the prévôts and hear complaints, while in the newly acquired lands in the south local feudal magnates were given similar powers with the title of sénéchal. |
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