Philip AugustusMacmillan and Company, 1896 - 228 Seiten |
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abbat alliance allies already Angevin Angevin house Aquitaine archbishop of Rheims army attack Baldwin barons besieged bishop Bouvines Burgundy castle Champagne charters Château Gaillard chroniclers Church claim clerk commune council count of Flanders count of Toulouse court crown crusade daughter death declared duke ecclesiastical emperor England English king father Ferrand feudal fiefs Flemish foes France Frankish king French king Gaul gave Gisors granted Hainault hand held Henry Henry II Holy house of Anjou Ingeborgis Innocent John King Philip king's kingdom knights lands later legate lord Louis VII marched marriage monarchy Norman Normandy Otto Paris peace peers Philip Augustus Philip of Flanders Poitou political pope prévôts privileges promised queen realm recognised Reginald of Boulogne reign Richard Rigord royal domain says seneschal siege sovereign suzerain Thibault tion took Toulouse Tournai towns treaty triumph twelfth century vassals Vermandois victory wife William the Breton young
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Seite 219 - For he that humbleth himself shall be exalted, and he that exalteth himself shall be humbled.
Seite 53 - ... in England at the end of January, 1185, and Henry who was on his way to York turned back and met them at Reading. There Heraclius described the evils that afflicted the Christian kingdom so eloquently that the king and all the multitude who heard were moved to sighs and tears. He offered to Henry the keys of the tower of David and of the holy sepulchre, and the banner of the kingdom, with the right to the throne itself. To such an offer in these circumstances there was but one reply to make,...
Seite 50 - ... all that belonged to him. Here he was received with the greatest joy by the whole army, which had been besieging the city for so long a time. [He was welcomed] with hymns and songs of praise and floods of tears, as though he had been an angel of God. He at once had his house set up so near the city walls that the enemies of Christ often shot their quarrels and arrows right up to it and even beyond.
Seite 102 - A moment later the king put on his armour, and with glad face "no less than if he had been bidden to a wedding
Seite 16 - ... (1165-1223) 1. Philip's birth and childhood; problem of the Angevin Empire Gerald of Cambridge, a young English scholar visiting Paris in 1165, wrote in his memoirs: ''One night in the very beginning of autumn, shortly after the dead of night, it was said that by God's grace Philip had been born. This rumor was bruited through the city and received with inexpressible delight. At once throughout the length and breadth of the city on every side there burst forth such a clamorous pealing of bells...
Seite 227 - ... found wholly unsympathetic and strange. Of the great work he had done for France they were too close to judge fairly, and would have understood him better had he been rash and heedless of design like the Lion-Heart. For a real appreciation of Philip Augustus we must turn to his modern biographer. ' He had found France a small realm hedged in by mighty rivals. When he began his reign but a very small portion of the French-speaking people owned his sway. As suzerain his power was derided. Even...