Philip Augustus

by Jim Bradbury

• ISBN13: 9780582060586
• ISBN10: 0582060583
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2015-12-14
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Jim Bradbury offers a view of Philip's many different relationships -- with the Angevians, with his vassals, with the French church, with the papacy, with his two wives and his mistress Agnes of Meran, with his fellow crusaders, and his fellow rulers -- as well as an insight into the nature of monarchy in the central Middle Ages.

Table of Contents

List of Genealogical Tables and Maps	x	(1)
Editor's Preface	xi	(2)
Preface	xiii	(4)
A Note on the Sources	xvii
CHAPTER 1 Philip's Inheritance	1	(39)
The birth of Philip Augustus	1	(2)
Philip's parentage	3	(2)
The formation of the principalities of France	5	(2)
The Capetian dynasty	7	(2)
Traditions of the Capetian dynasty	9	(4)
Louis VI (1108-1137) and the development of the French monarchy	13	(3)
The reign of Louis VII (1137-1180)	16	(3)
Louis VII and the Church	19	(5)
Louis VII and the Plantagenets	24	(5)
Louis VII and the principalities	29	(3)
Louis VII and the towns	32	(1)
Louis VII's administration	32	(3)
Was Louis VII a weak king?	35	(3)
Louis VII the father	38	(2)
CHAPTER 2 The Young King	40	(32)
The coronation	40	(7)
The new regime	47	(4)
The expulsion of the Jews	51	(3)
Philip of Alsace and the Hainault marriage	54	(6)
Philip Augustus and Henry II	60	(8)
Paris	68	(4)
CHAPTER 3 Philip Augustus and the East	72	(34)
France and the crusades	72	(1)
Causes of the Third Crusade	73	(3)
Preparations for the Third Crusade	76	(4)
The journey to the Holy Land	80	(7)
Philip in the Holy Land	87	(5)
Philip's return	92	(5)
Richard's crusade	97	(4)
The Fourth Crusade	101	(3)
Conclusions on crusading	104	(2)
CHAPTER 4 The Conflict with Richard I	106	(24)
Richard's captivity	106	(8)
The war between Philip and Richard	114	(13)
Conclusions on the war between Philip and Richard	127	(3)
CHAPTER 5 The Defeat of the Angevin Empire	130	(36)
John's accession	130	(7)
Philip's position after 1199	137	(8)
Philip the Conqueror	145	(11)
Conclusions on the war between Philip and John	156	(10)
CHAPTER 6 Philip Augustus and the Papacy	166	(29)
Philip's personal piety	166	(7)
Ingeborg of Denmark	173	(13)
Philip Augustus and Innocent III	186	(9)
CHAPTER 7 Philip and the Church in France	195	(19)
The Gallican Church and the Capetians	195	(5)
Clerics in royal government and administration	200	(3)
Episcopal elections	203	(2)
The university of Paris	205	(2)
Heresy	207	(7)
CHAPTER 8 The Transformation of French Kingship	214	(33)
The power of the monarchy	217	(9)
Philip and the nobility	226	(8)
Government and the towns	234	(4)
Government and defence	238	(9)
CHAPTER 9 The Foundations of Philip's Government	247	(32)
Philip's administration	248	(7)
The Registers	255	(8)
Financial administration	263	(6)
The administration of justice	269	(5)
The effects of expansion on government	274	(5)
CHAPTER 10 Triumph at Bouvines	279	(37)
Philip's army	280	(4)
Flanders before Bouvines	284	(3)
King John, 1206-1214	287	(3)
The coalition against Philip	290	(3)
La Roche-au-Moine	293	(2)
The preliminaries to Bouvines	295	(8)
The site	303	(1)
The battle of Bouvines	304	(7)
The immediate effects of the battle	311	(5)
CHAPTER 11 The Last Years	316	(23)
Prince Louis in England	317	(7)
Flanders after Bouvines	324	(2)
The effect of Bouvines on France	326	(2)
Prince Louis in the south	328	(3)
The end of an era	331	(3)
Epilogue	334	(5)
Bibliography	339	(12)
Genealogical Tables and Maps	351	(8)
Index	359