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Philip I of France

Philip I
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Philip's tomb effigy in Fleury Abbey
King of the Franks
Co-reign
Solo-reign
23 May 1059 – 4 August 1060;
4 August 1060 – 29 July 1108
Coronation 23 May 1059
Predecessor Henry I
Successor Louis VI
Born (1052-05-23)23 May 1052
Champagne-et-Fontaine
Died 29 July 1108(1108-07-29) (aged 56)
Melun
Burial Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire
Spouse Bertha of Holland
Bertrade de Montfort
Issue Constance, Princess of Antioch
Louis VI of France
Philip, Count of Mantes
Fleury, Seigneur of Nangis
Cecile, Princess of Galilee
House House of Capet
Father Henry I of France
Mother Anne of Kiev
Religion Roman Catholicism

Philip I (23 May 1052 – 29 July 1108), called the Amorous, was King of the Franks from 1060 to his death. 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 reached in the reign of his father and he added to the royal demesne the Vexin and Bourges.

Philip was born 23 May 1052 at Champagne-et-Fontaine, the son of Henry I and his wife Anne of Kiev. Unusual at the time for 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 age 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.

Following the death of Baldwin VI of Flanders, Robert the Frisian seized Flanders. Baldwin's wife, Richilda requested aid from Philip, who defeated Robert at the battle of Cassel in 1071.

Philip first married Bertha in 1072. Although the marriage produced the necessary heir, Philip fell in love with Bertrade de Montfort, the wife of Fulk IV, Count of Anjou. He repudiated Bertha (claiming she was too fat) and married Bertrade on 15 May 1092. In 1094, he was excommunicated by Hugh of Die, for the first time; after a long silence, Pope Urban II repeated the excommunication at the Council of Clermont in November 1095. Several times the ban was lifted as Philip promised to part with Bertrade, but he always returned to her, but in 1104 Philip made a public penance and must have kept his involvement with Bertrade discreet. In France, the king was opposed by Bishop Ivo of Chartres, a famous jurist.


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