The Government of Philip Augustus: Foundations of French Royal Power in the Middle AgesUniversity of California Press, 1991 M06 19 - 632 pages In the thirteenth century the French kings won ascendancy over France, while France achieved political and cultural supremacy over western Europe. Based on French sources, this meticulously documented study provides an account of how Philip Augustus (1179-1223) brought about this transformation of royal power. |
Contents
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Shifting Alliances | 16 |
The Territorial Balance Sheet | 24 |
The King and His Men | 28 |
Justice and Finance The Chief Business of Government | 37 |
Finance | 44 |
Towns and Churches The Extension of Royal Influence | 59 |
Churches | 64 |
Pledges | 266 |
Marriage | 269 |
FiefRentes | 272 |
Relief and Wardship | 277 |
Feudal Military Service | 279 |
Military Service of Prelates and Barons | 281 |
The Findings of the Inventories | 286 |
The Capetian Inventories of Normandy | 289 |
The Decisive Decade 11901203 | 75 |
Narrative The Ill Fortunes of War | 77 |
The Flemish Inheritance | 80 |
Ingeborg of Denmark and Agnès de Mémn | 82 |
John Against Richard | 87 |
Arthur Against John | 94 |
The Kings New Men | 101 |
The Regency June 1190December 1191 | 102 |
The Withdrawal of the Magnates | 104 |
The Kings New Men | 106 |
The Sons of Gautier | 107 |
Barthélemy de Roye and Henri Clément | 109 |
Brother Guérin | 115 |
Baillis | 125 |
The Reorganization of Justice and Finance | 137 |
Fiscal Accounts | 144 |
The Royal Income 120203 | 152 |
The Agricultural Domain | 155 |
Towns and Commerce | 158 |
Regalian Churches | 161 |
Justice | 162 |
Military Revenues | 163 |
Expenses | 164 |
War and Finances | 166 |
The Blessings of Ecclesiastical Liberties | 176 |
CONQUEST AND CONSOLIDATION 12031206 | 189 |
Narrative The Great Conquests and the Victory at Bouvines | 191 |
The Realignment of the Great Fiefs | 196 |
The Climax of Bouvines 12121214 | 207 |
Baillis and Seneschals Justice and Finance in the New Domain | 220 |
The Norman Administration of Justice | 225 |
The Administration of the Jews | 230 |
Seneschals in the Loire Valley | 233 |
Reckoning the Gains of the Conquests | 239 |
The Mentality of Taking Stock | 248 |
Forests | 251 |
The King as Seigneur | 259 |
The Hierarchy of Fiefs | 260 |
Homage and Fealty | 263 |
The Kings Court | 264 |
The Inventories of the Old Capetian Domain | 293 |
Castleguard and Castles | 294 |
Repossessing the Churches | 304 |
Freedom of Elections | 306 |
A Halt to Renunciations of Regalia | 309 |
Taking Stock of Ecclesiastical Resources | 311 |
Defining Boundaries Between King and Clergy | 315 |
Secular and Ecclesiastical Property Rights | 318 |
Maintenance of Public Order | 323 |
Victory 12141223 | 329 |
The Fruits of Victory | 331 |
Adventures in England and the South | 332 |
Peace | 339 |
Paris | 342 |
Prosperity | 351 |
Philip the Realm and the Emergence of Royal Ideology | 355 |
Philip | 356 |
The Realm | 359 |
The Emergence of Royal Ideology | 362 |
The Birth of the King and His Blood Right | 367 |
The Consecration of the King and His Defense of the Church | 374 |
The Meaning of Bouvines | 380 |
The Burial of the King and His Personal Sanctity | 389 |
Postscript Uncovering the Government of Philip Augustus | 394 |
Chronicles | 395 |
Charters | 401 |
Fiscal Accounts | 405 |
The Royal Archives Trésor des Chartes | 407 |
Registers | 412 |
Norman Exchequer Judgments | 418 |
Appendices | 425 |
Appendix A Personnel of the Central Government | 426 |
Appendix B Prevots and Baillis | 428 |
Appendix C Elections of Bishops to Regalian Sees 11791223 | 434 |
Appendix D Archbishoprics Bishoprics and Abbeys | 442 |
Appendix E Knight Service at Eouvines | 450 |
Abbreviations | 455 |
Notes | 459 |
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abbey abbot accounts Actes Amiens Angevin Anjou archbishop archbishop of Reims Artois Augustus's Auxerre Ballivus barons Barthélemy de Roye Béthisy bishop Boulogne Bourges Bouvines Brother Guérin Budget canon Capetian Cartellieri castles chamberlain Champagne chancery chap charters chronicler church clerics conquest count of Boulogne count of Flanders coutumier crusade decade Delisle domini regis duke ecclesiastical election English Etienne Eudes Evreux example exchequer feudal fief-rente fiefs Flemish forest France French king Gallardon Gautier Gesta Gisors Guillaume le Breton Henry Hugues Ibid income Ingeborg inquest inventory John jurisdiction justice king's knights lands Laon livres parisis livres tournois Loire lord Louis VII Mâcon marriage military Norman Normandy Orléans papal Paris percent Péronne Philip Augustus Philippidos Pierre pope prévôts records regalian Register Reims Renaud revenues RHF XXIV Richard Rigord Robert Rouen royal court royal domain Saint-Denis scribe Scripta de feodis seneschal Senlis Sens Teulet Thibaut tion Tournai Tours Troyes vassals Vermandois Vexin