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11 unusual facts about Philip IV of France


Bernard VI, Count of Armagnac

Subsequently, he participated in all the campaigns in Flanders directed by Philippe le Bel and his son Louis X (in 1303, 1304, 1313 and 1315).

Count of Champagne

Joan (1274–1305) and Philip I (1284–1305), also Joan I of Navarre and Philip IV of France and I of Navarre

The latter's greatgrandaughter Joan married King Philip IV of France, and so the Crowns of France and Navarre were united for the first time.

When their son Louis became King of France in 1314, upon the death of his father Philip IV, Champagne became part of the Crown's territories.

Day of the Flemish Community

In 1302 the French king Philip IV sent an army to punish the Flemish citizens of Brugge, who earlier that year rebelled against the king and attacked the French governor of Flanders (the so-called Good Friday of Brugge).

Deus Ex: Invisible War characters

Alternatively, he also claims in a radio interview to be avenging the persecution of the original Knights Templars by Philip the Fair.

Gulielm Blinishti

In 1304 after the proclamation of alliance between Albanians and Philip IV of France, he became marshal of the Angevin armies in Albania.

Philip IV of France

The outbreak of hostilities with England in 1294 was the inevitable result of the competitive expansionist monarchies, triggered by a secret Franco-Scottish pact of mutual assistance against Edward I, who was Philip's brother-in-law, having married Philip's sister Margaret; inconclusive campaigns for the control of Gascony to the southwest of France were fought in 1294–98 and 1300–03.

Their stepmother, Marie of Brabant, was suspected of poisoning the two young boys; her first son, Louis, was born in the same month the two boys died.

Rothley Temple

Shortly after, King Philip IV of France, heavily indebted to the order, started a campaign against the Knights Templar, using his puppet Pope Clement V.

Temple Bruer

Nonetheless, the Templars in general were too wealthy and kings, particularly Philip IV of France owed them too much money for the order to survive and it was suppressed in 1312 by Pope Clement V.


Dunce cap

King Philip IV of France wanted to tax the church in order to finance his war with England, but Pope Boniface VIII threatened to excommunicate him instead.

Marie Luise Bulst-Thiele

In his own work Trial of the Templars, British historian Malcolm Barber discusses Bulst-Thiele's views on the Templars, as that she sees the attack on the Knights Templar as an integral element of the relations between the administration of King Philip IV of France and the Papacy.

William of Jülich

William of Jülich (The Younger) (Dutch: Willem van Gulik (de Jongere)) (unknown - August 18, 1304) was one of the Flemish noblemen that opposed the annexation policies of the French king Philip IV - together with Pieter de Coninck.