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1 day ago · Philip III became king when Saint Louis died in 1270 during the Eighth Crusade. Philip III was called "the Bold" on the basis of his abilities in combat and on horseback, and not because of his character or ruling abilities. Philip III took part in another crusading disaster: the Aragonese Crusade, which cost him his
3 days ago · France - Later Capetians, Monarchy, Revolution: Louis IX was succeeded by his son, Philip III (reigned 1270–85); his grandson, Philip IV (the Fair; 1285–1314); and three great-grandsons, Louis X (1314–16), Philip V (1316–22), and Charles IV (1322–28).
3 days ago · Royal authority was greatly strengthened by Louis VII’s successor, Philip II (Augustus; reigned 1180–1223), who could claim descent from Charlemagne through his mother. Philip proved to be the ablest Capetian yet to reign.
3 days ago · In 1305, a Frenchman was elected as Pope Clement V. He backed down from confronting royal power, publicly burned Unam Sanctam, and stated that Philip IV, in accusing Boniface, had shown “praiseworthy zeal.” Clement moved the papacy out of Rome, where it had been based for well over 1,000 years, to Avignon, a town in southern France. For the ...
2 days ago · On 3 March 1465, Charles of France, duke of Berry and brother to Louis XI, fled to Brittany from the royal court at Poitiers. While tensions between the king and the princes had been building since late 1464, Charles’s flight is typically taken as marking the beginning of the War of the Public Weal, which pitted the bulk of the princes of France—including the dukes of Berry, Bourbon ...
4 days ago · France - Philip VI, Monarchy, Revolution: Philip VI of Valois (reigned 1328–50), grandson of Philip III, was of mature age when he became regent of France in 1328. Upon the birth of a daughter to the widow of his cousin Charles IV, the familiar issue of the succession was posed anew.
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4 days ago · Philip III, Isabella’s procrastinating half-brother, only grudgingly accepted the cession of the Netherlands and was loath to leave decision-making to his sister and her husband. The Archdukes met the King’s unrealistic demands with diplomacy and pragmatism.
