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Philip I of France

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Philip I ( – 29 July 1108), called the Amorous (French: L’Amoureux), was King of the Franks from 1060 to 1108. His reign, like that of most of the early Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the time. The monarchy began a modest recovery from the low it had reached during the reign of his father, Henry I, and he added the Vexin region and the viscountcy of Bourges to his royal domaine. Early life Philip was born c. 1052 at Champagne-et-Fontaine, the son of Henry I and his wife Anne of Kiev. Unusual for the time in Western Europe, his name was of Greek origin, being bestowed upon him by his mother. Although he was crowned king at the age of seven, until he turned fourteen (1066) his mother acted as regent, the first queen of France ever to do so. Baldwin V of Flanders also acted as co-regent. Personal rule

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“Now, my son, keep heedful watch over this tower, the trouble caused me by which has made me almost an old man, and through whose craft and deceitful wickedness I have never known thorough peace and quiet.”
— Advice to his son, Louis-le-Gros, as quoted by Suger, Vita Ludovici Grossi, ch. 3, in Scriptores Rerum Francicarum, vol. 12, p. 16. Reported in Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith, vol. 1 (New York, 1882), p. 221, footnote. The Baron de Montlhéry had given his daughter in marriage to one of the king's sons, with his castle as her dowry—"which was, in fact, to give him a clear road between Paris and Orleans."

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Philip I ( – 29 July 1108), called the Amorous (French: L’Amoureux), was King of the Franks from 1060 to 1108. His reign, like that of most of the early Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the time. The monarchy began a modest recovery from the low it had reached during the reign of his father, Henry I, and he added the Vexin region and the viscountcy of Bourges to his royal domaine. Early life Philip was born c. 1052 at Champagne-et-Fontaine, the son of Henry I and his wife Anne of Kiev. Unusual for the time in Western Europe, his name was of Greek origin, being bestowed upon him by his mother. Although he was crowned king at the age of seven, until he turned fourteen (1066) his mother acted as regent, the first queen of France ever to do so. Baldwin V of Flanders also acted as co-regent. Personal rule

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“Now, my son, keep heedful watch over this tower, the trouble caused me by which has made me almost an old man, and through whose craft and deceitful wickedness I have never known thorough peace and quiet.”
— Advice to his son, Louis-le-Gros, as quoted by Suger, Vita Ludovici Grossi, ch. 3, in Scriptores Rerum Francicarum, vol. 12, p. 16. Reported in Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith, vol. 1 (New York, 1882), p. 221, footnote. The Baron de Montlhéry had given his daughter in marriage to one of the king's sons, with his castle as her dowry—"which was, in fact, to give him a clear road between Paris and Orleans."

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