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Alexander III
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Angevin Empire
Angevin Lands
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Capetian monarchy
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Celestine III
church-state relations
Conrad III
crusader states
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Eugenius III
European dynastic conflict
feudal governance
Frankish Empire
Henry II
Henry III
Honorius III
Innocent III
late medieval Europe
Les Andelys
louis
Louis VII
Louis VIII
medieval French royal authority
medieval political history
monarchy transformation
Otto IV
Papal Judge Delegate
Philip Hurepel
Philip's Father
Philip's Government
Philip's reign
philippe
Philip’s Father
Philip’s Government
Plantagenet Lands
Pope Honorius III
Third Crusade
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william
William Des Barres
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780582060593
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is the first major study in English of the reign of Philip Augustus who ruled France from 1180 - 1223. Outshone for posterity, by his flamboyant contemporaries, the Angevin family of Henry II and his feuding sons, Philip was in fact far more successful than any of them, astutely playing them off against each other and recovering for the French crown their vast estates in Northern France including Normandy itself. As well as reasserting the power of the Capetian monarchy, he was also leader of the Third Crusade. Drawing together all the threads in the life of one of France's most forceful rulers, this new study offers a study of the nature of monarchy in late medieval Europe as well as an insight into a subtle and secretive personality.
