Philip I of France

Philip I (c. 1052 – 29 July 1108), called the Amorous (French: L'Amoureux), was King of the Franks from 1060 to 1108. His reign of nearly 48 years, like that of most of the early Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the time. The monarchy began a modest recovery from the low it had reached during the reign of his father, Henry I, and he added the Vexin region and the viscountcy of Bourges to his royal domaine.

Quotes

• Now, my son, keep heedful watch over this tower, the trouble caused me by which has made me almost an old man, and through whose craft and deceitful wickedness I have never known thorough peace and quiet.
  • Advice to his son, Louis-le-Gros, as quoted by Suger, Vita Ludovici Grossi, ch. 3, in Scriptores Rerum Francicarum, vol. 12, p. 16. Reported in Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith, vol. 1 (New York, 1882), p. 221, footnote. The Baron de Montlhéry had given his daughter in marriage to one of the king's sons, with his castle as her dowry—"which was, in fact, to give him a clear road between Paris and Orleans."

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Philip I of France on Wikipedia