Philip IV of France
Philip IV (French: Philippe; April–June 1268 – 29 November 1314), called the Fair (le Bel), was King of France from 1285 to 1314. By virtue of his marriage with Joan I of Navarre, he was also King of Navarre and Count of Champagne as Philip I from 1284 to 1305.
Quotes
[edit]- If some among them are innocent, it is expedient that they should be assayed like gold in the furnace, and purged by proper judicial examination.
- Royal letter opening the enquiry into the Knights Templar, c. October 1307. Peter Partner, The Knights Templar & Their Myth (Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1990 [Oxford UP, 1981]) ch. 4, p. 61
Quotes about Philip IV
[edit]- To his enemy, Bernard Saisset, he was neither man nor beast, but a statue, "the handsomest man in the world, but unable to do anything but stare fixedly at people without saying a word."
- Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 21 (11th ed. 1911) p. 381. See also: Peter Vansittart, The Lost Lands (1964) bk. 1, ch. 5, p. 33
- Under his reign France was great and the French wretched.
- Maurice Druon, The Iron King (tr. Humphrey Hare, 1956) pr.
