King Philip (The Fair) Capet of France IV 
Philip, known as The Fair, was born in 1270 in Royal Palace of Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, France.1 The Fair's father was King Phillip (The Bold) Capet of France III and his mother was Isabelle of Aragon. His paternal grandparents were Saint, King Louis Capet of France IX and Marguerite Berenger of Provence; his maternal grandparents were King Jaime (The Conqueror) of Aragon I and Yolande Arpad of Hungary. He had two brothers named Louis and Charles. He was the second oldest of the three children. He had a half-brother and two half-sisters, named Louis, Margaret and Blanche. He died at the age of 44 on October 29th, 1314. He was buried in Saint Denis Basilica.2 1 General Notes
Philippe IV, the Fair (French Philippe le Bel) (1268 - November 29, 1314) was King of France from 1285 to 1314. A member of the Capetian Dynasty, he was born at the Royal Palace of Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne the son of King Philippe III and Isabelle d'Aragon. He was called Philippe the Fair because of his handsome appearance. As king, he was determined to strengthen the monarchy at any cost.
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Philippe married Jeanne of Navarre (1271-1305) on August 16, 1284.
King Philippe IV arrested Jews so he could seize their goods to accommodate his spendthrift lifestyle. When he also levied taxes on the French clergy of one half their annual income, he caused an uproar within the Roman Catholic Church and the papacy. Still, Philippe emerged victorious with a French archbishop made Pope Clement V and the official papal palace was built in Avignon in southern France.
On October 13, 1307, what may have been all the Knights Templar in France were simultaneously arrested by agents of Philippe the Fair, to be later tortured into admitting heresy in the Order. A modern historical view is that Philippe, who seized the treasury and broke up the monastic banking system, simply sought to control it for himself.
Philippe IV's rule signaled the decline of the papacy's power from its near complete authority. He died in a hunting accident and is buried in Saint Denis Basilica.
The children of Philippe IV and Jeanne of Navarre were:
Louis X - (October 4, 1289 - June 5, 1316)
Isabelle - (1292 - August 23, 1358)
Philippe V - (1293 - January 3, 1322)
Charles IV - (1294 - February 1, 1328)
All three of their sons would become king of France and their daughter, Queen of England.
He was succeeded by his son, Louis X.
Philip IV (of France), called The Fair (1268-1314), king of France (1285-1314), known for his conflict with the papacy. The son and successor of King Philip III, he was born in Fontainebleau. Through marriage he became the ruler of Navarre and Champagne. Between 1294 and 1296 he seized Guienne, in southwestern France, a possession of Edward I, king of England. In 1297 war ensued with England and with Flanders, England's ally. Under the terms of a truce made in 1299, Philip withdrew from Guienne and Edward withdrew from Flanders, leaving it to the French. A revolt broke out at Brugge (Bruges), however, and at the Battle of Courtrai in 1302, the French army was disastrously defeated by Flemish burghers.
The great event of Philip's reign was his struggle with Pope Boniface VIII, which grew out of Philip's attempt to levy taxes against the clergy. By the bull Clericis Laicos (1296) Boniface forbade the clergy to pay taxes to a secular power, and Philip replied by forbidding the export of coins, thereby depriving the pope of French revenues. A temporary reconciliation was ended by a fresh outbreak of the quarrel when Philip arrested the papal legate in 1301 and summoned the first French Estates-General. This assembly, which was composed of clergy, nobles, and burghers, gave support to Philip. Boniface retaliated with the celebrated bull Unam Sanctam (1302), a declaration of papal supremacy. Philip's partisans then imprisoned Boniface. The pope escaped but died soon afterward.
In 1305 Philip obtained the election of one of his own adherents as pope, Clement V, and compelled him to reside in France. Thus began the so-called Babylonian Captivity of the papacy (1309-77), during which the popes lived at Avignon and were subjected to French control.
In 1307 Philip arrested Grand Master Jacques de Molay of the Knights Templar, and in 1312 he forced the pope to suppress the religious and military order. Their wealth was confiscated by the king, and many members were burned at the stake. Also, as a result of his financial needs, Philip greatly increased taxes, debased the coinage several times, and arrested the Jews and the Lombards (Italian bankers), appropriating the assets of the former and demanding large subsidies from the latter. He died October 29, 1314, at Fontainebleau.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1119 in Reims, Champagne, France d.18 Sep 1180 in Paris, France
- b.21 Aug 1165 in Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France d.14 Jul 1223 in Mantes, France
- b.1140 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France d.1206
- b.05 Sep 1187 in Paris, France d.08 Nov 1226 in Auvergne, France
- b.1150 in Hainault, Belgium d.22 Dec 1196
- b.1170 d.1190
- b.1135 in Alsace, France d.20 Nov 1195
- b.25 Apr 1214 in Poissy, France d.25 Aug 1270 in Tunis, Africa
- b.1134 d.31 Aug 1158 in Toledo, Spain
- b.11 Nov 1155 in Castile, Spain d.06 Oct 1214 in Gutierre Munoz, Avila, Castile
- b.1133 d.31 Aug 1158 in Toledo, Spain
- b.04 Mar 1187 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.27 Nov 1252 in Paris, France
- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Anjou, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.13 Oct 1162 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.25 Oct 1214 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain
- b.21 Nov 1122 in Chateau de Berlin, Gironde, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevrault, Anjou, France
- b.03 Apr 1245 in Poissy, France d.05 Oct 1285 in Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales
- b.May 1152 d.25 Apr 1196
- b.1174 d.Feb 1209
- b.21 Sep 1164 d.09 Nov 1208 in Sijena
- b.1198 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- d.1210
- b.1180 d.1209
- d.1190
- b.1221 in St. Maime B, Forcalquier, Bourgogne, France d.21 Dec 1295 in Paris, Isle de France, France
- b.01 Aug 1136 in Savoie, France d.04 Mar 1188 in France
- b.20 Mar 1177 in Carbonierres, Savoy, France d.20 Jan 1233 in Aoste, Isere, France
- b.1156 d.08 Apr 1230
- b.1201 in Chambery, Savoie, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.1130 d.25 Jul 1195
- b.1180 in Geneva, Switzerland d.08 Apr 1257 in Pierre-Chatel, France
- b.1138
- b.1270 in Royal Palace of Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, France d.29 Oct 1314
- b.1113 d.08 Aug 1162
- b.May 1152 d.25 Apr 1196
- b.1135 d.17 Oct 1174 in Barcelona, Spain
- b.1174 in Zaragoza, Spain d.12 Dec 1213 in Haute-Garonne, France
- b.01 Mar 1105 d.21 Aug 1157 in Fresneda
- b.21 Sep 1164 d.09 Nov 1208 in Sijena
- b.1130
- b.1208 d.1276
- b.1158
- b.1178 in Montpelier, Herault, France d.21 Jan 1213 in Rome, Italy
- b.1104 d.1174
- b.1247 in Barcelona, Spain d.28 Jan 1271 in Consenza, Italy
- b.1130 in Tolna, Hungary d.31 May 1161
- b.1148 in Esztergom, Komaron-Esztergom, Hungary d.23 Apr 1196 in Szekesfehervar, Fejer, Hungary
- b.1130 in Kiev, Ukraine d.1186 in Byzantium, Turkey
- b.1176 in Esztergom, Komaron-Esztergom, Hungary d.21 Sep 1235 in Eger, Heves, Hungary
- b.1133
- b.1154 in Versailles, Seine-Et-Oise, France d.1184
- b.1219 in Esztergom, Hungary d.09 Oct 1251 in Huesca, Spain
- b.1126 in Reims, Champagen, France d.1183 in Palestine, Israel
- b.1155 in Courtenay, Galinois, France d.1219 in Epirus, Turkey
- b.1127 in Courtenay, France d.14 Sep 1205 in France
- b.1198 in Courtenay, Loiret, France d.1232
- b.1150 in Hainault, Belgium d.22 Dec 1196
- b.1175 in Flanders, Belgium d.26 Aug 1219 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
- b.1135 in Alsace, France d.20 Nov 1195
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Details of The Fair's family with Jeanne of Narvarre
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