1st Edition

Philip Augustus King of France 1180-1223

By Jim Bradbury Copyright 1998
400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
1. Philip's Inheritance.
2. The Young King.
3. Philip Augustus and the East.
4. The Conflict With Richard I.
5. The Defeat of the Angevin Empire.
6. Philip Augustus and the Papacy.
7. Philip and the Church in France.
8. The Transformation of French Kingship.
9. The Foundations of Philip's Government.
10. Triumph at Bouvines.
11. The Last Years.

Biography

Bradbury, Jim