King Philip III (Hardi) Capet Of France 
Philip III, known as Hardi, was born on May 1st, 1245 in Poissy,France. Hardi's father was Saint King Louis IX Capet Of France and his mother was Countess Marguerite Berenger Of Provence. His paternal grandparents were King Louis VIII Capet Of France and Princess Blanche Alfonsez Of Castile; his maternal grandparents were Count Raymond VI Berengar Of Provence and Beatrice De Maurienne Of Savoy. He had three brothers and four sisters, named Robert, John, Peter, Agnes, Blanche, Isabella and Margaret. He died at the age of 40 on October 5th, 1285 in Perpignan,France.General Notes
Burial , St. Denis, France
Philip III
b. April 3, 1245, Poissy, Fr.
d. Oct. 5, 1285, Perpignan
byname PHILIP THE BOLD, French PHILIPPE LE HARDI, king of France (1270-85), in whose reign the power of the monarchy was enlarged and the royal domain extended, though his foreign policy and military ventures were largely unsuccessful.
Philip, the second son of Louis IX of France (Saint Louis), became heir to the throne on the death of his elder brother Louis (1260). Accompanying his father's crusade against Tunis in 1270, he was in Africa when Louis IX died. He was anointed king at Reims in 1271.
Philip continued his father's highly successful administration by keeping in office his able and experienced household clerks. Mathieu de Vendôme, abbot of Saint-Denis, whom Louis IX had left as regent in France, remained in control of the government. The death in 1271 of Alphonse of Poitiers and his wife, heiress of Toulouse, enabled Philip early in his reign to annex their vast holdings to the royal demesne. Nevertheless, in 1279 he was obliged to cede the county of Agenais to Edward I of England. The marriage in 1284 of Philip's son, the future Philip IV, to Joan, the heiress of the crown of Navarre and the countships of Champagne and Brie, brought these important areas also under Capetian control. In addition Philip over the years made numerous small territorial acquisitions.
Philip was less successful militarily. In 1276 he declared war to support the claims of his nephews as heirs in Castile but soon abandoned the venture. In 1284, at the instigation of Pope Martin IV, Philip launched a campaign against Peter III of Aragon, as part of the War of the Sicilian Vespers, in which the Aragonese opposed the Angevin rulers of Sicily. Philip crossed the Pyrenees with his army in May 1285, but the atrocities perpetrated by his forces provoked a guerrilla uprising. After a meaningless victory at Gerona and the destruction of his fleet at Las Hormigas, Philip was forced to retreat. He died of fever on the way home
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1081 in Paris,France d.01 Aug 1137 in Chateau Bethizy,Paris,France
- b.~ 1121 in Reims,Champaigne,France d.18 Sep 1180 in Paris,France
- b.1092 in Savoi d.18 Nov 1154
- b.21 Aug 1165 in Gonesse,nr. Paris,France d.14 Jul 1223 in Mantes,France
- b.1122 in Blois,France d.04 Jun 1204 in Paris,Isle de France
- b.05 Sep 1187 in Paris,France d.08 Nov 1226 in Auvergne,France
- b.1135 in Hainault d.17 Dec 1195 in Mons,France
- b.1170 in Valencinnes,Haunaut,Belgium d.15 MAR 1189/1190 in Paris,France
- d.1194
- b.25 Apr 1214 in Poissy,France d.25 Aug 1270 in Tunis,Africa; of the plague
- b.01 Mar 1105 in Castilla,Spain d.21 Aug 1157
- b.1134 in Toledo,Castile d.31 Aug 1158 in Toledo,Spain
- b.~ 1095 in Barcelona,Spain d.Feb 1149
- b.11 Nov 1155 in Soria,Castile d.06 Oct 1214 in Gutierre Munoz,Avila,Castile
- b.> 1133 in Pamplona,Navarra d.12 Aug 1156
- b.4 MAR 1186/1187 in Palencia,Castile d.12 Nov 1252 in Paris,France
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou,France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau,Eure-et-Loire,France
- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans,Anjou d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon Castle,France
- b.1104 in London,Middlesex,England d.10 Sep 1167 in Notre Dame,Rouen,Seine-Maritime,France
- b.13 Oct 1161 in Domfront,Normandie d.25 Oct 1214 in Las Huelgas,Burgos,Spain
- b.1099 in Toulouse,France d.09 Apr 1137 in Saint Jacques-de-Compostelle,Spain
- b.1122 in Chateau de Berlin,France d.01 Apr 1204 in Poitiers or Fontervrault,France
- b.~ 1103 in Aquitaine,France d.> 1130 in Talmont,France
- b.01 May 1245 in Poissy,France d.05 Oct 1285 in Perpignan,France
- b.May 1152 in Aragon d.25 Apr 1196
- b.1180 in Aragon d.FEB 1208/1209
- b.21 Sep 1154
- b.1198 in Provence d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- b.1181
- b.1221 in St Maime,France d.20 Dec 1295 in Paris,France
- b.01 Aug 1136 in Savoi,France d.4 MAR 1188/1189 in France
- b.20 MAR 1176/1177 in Carbonierres,Savoy,France d.20 JAN 1232/1233 in France
- b.1138 in Vienne Isere,France d.<08 Apr 1230
- b.1201 in Savoy,France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.1130 in Geneva,Switzerland d.25 Jul 1195
- b.1180 in Geneva,Switzerland d.08 Apr 1257 in Pierre Chatel,Isere,France
- b.1138 in Faucigny,Haute-Savoie,France
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Hardi and Isabella were married in a religious ceremony in 1262. They had two sons named The Beautiful and Charles III.
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Children
King Philip IV (The Beautiful) Capet Of France
Philip IV, known as The Beautiful, was born in 1268 in Fontainebleau,France. He died at the age of 46 on November 29th, 1314 in Fontainebleau,France.
Count Charles III Capet Of Valois
Charles III was born in Fountainebleau,France. He died on December 15th, 1325 in Le Perrey nr. Rambouillet.
Hardi and Marie were married in a religious ceremony in 1274. They had a son and two daughters, named Louis, Marguerite and Blanche.
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Children
Princess Marguerite Capet Of France
Marguerite was born in 1279. She died at the age of 39 on February 14th, 1318.
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