Carlos, King Of Sicily, [King]

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King of Jerusalem

Carlos, married Beatrice, Countess Of Provence, Queen Of Sicily 24 Jan 1246. Beatrice, (daughter of Raymond Berenger V, Provence And For and Beatrice, Countess Of Savoy) was born 1233, Of, Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France; died 16 Sep 1267, Nocera; was buried Roque-Pymont. [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: 8XJD-DK

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Louis VIII King Of France
Death place Chateau de Montpensier, Puy-de-Dome, France
Buried Saint Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France

Louis married Blanca Princess Of Castile 16 May 1200, , Pont Audemer, Eure, France. Blanca (daughter of Alfonso VIII King Castile and Eleanor Princess Of England, [Queen]) was born Feb 1188, , Valencia, Valencia, Spain; died 20 Nov 1252, , Paris, Seine, France; was buried Maubuisson Abbey, Maubuisson, Seine-Et-Oise, France. [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: 8XJ4-TP

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• AFN: 8XJD-V0

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Philippe II, King Of France, known as Philip Augustus, was the first great king
of the Capetian dynasty. A clever statesman, he not only expanded the kingdom
of France, but also made the monarchy powerful.

Philip came to the throne when his father, Louis VII, died in 1180. His first
triumph was adding Picardy to his kingdom. This region was promised him as a
dowry, but he had to force his father-in-law to give it up.

Philip then determined to gain the English possessions in France for himself.
To weaken England's power, he encouraged the sons of the English king, Henry II,
to revolt against their father. Henry's oldest son, Richard the Lion-Hearted,
took the English throne in 1189, and he and went together on the Third Crusade.
But Philip soon returned home and began to make trouble for the absent Richard.

In 1194, Richard returned and began a war against Philip, but was killed in
battle in 1199. Richard's brother, King John, went to war with Philip in 1202.
Philip took advantage of John's mistakes and successfully conquered most of the
English holdings in France. John kept only the southern part of Aquitaine, or
Guienne. Philip's victory at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214 established his
hold on the conquered regions.

Philip then held greater powers than any of his strongest barons, and he
carried out a series of governmental reforms. These reforms laid the basis for
the later rule of the French kings.

Divorced 14 July 1193 and June 1196
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Reference:
"The World Book Encyclopedia", 1968, p P328-329.

Philippe married Isabelle De Hainaut 21 Apr 1180, Bapaume. Isabelle (daughter of Baldwin (Baudouin) VIII, Hainaut and Marguerite Countess Of Flanders, [Countess]) was born 1169, Hainaut, France; died 8 Mar 1190, , Paris, Seine, France; was buried Notre Dame de Pa, Seine, France. [Group Sheet]

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Buried Notre Dame de Paris, Seine, France

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Alfonso VIII King Of Castile

Alfonso married Eleanor Princess Of England, [Queen] 15 Sep 1177, , Burgos, Spain. Eleanor (daughter of King Henry II England, "Plantagenet" and Eleanore Princess Of Aquitaine, [queen Of Englan) was born 6 Oct 1162, , Falaise, Calvados, France; was christened , Damfront, Normandy, France; died 24 Oct 1214, , Burgos, Spain; was buried , Huelgas, Burgos, Spain. [Group Sheet]

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Queen of Castile

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• Burial: 1817, St. Denis' Abbey

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Louis VII King Of France held the throne from 1137 to 1180.
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Reference:
"The World Book Encyclopedia", 1968, p L414.

Louis married Alix Countess Champagne 6 Nov 1160. Alix (daughter of Thibaud IV (II) Blois & Champagn and Mathilde Princess Carinthia) was born Abt 1139, Of, Blois Loir-et-Ch, France; died 28 May 1206, , Paris, Seine, France; was buried Abbaye De Pontig, Pontigny, Yvonne, France. [Group Sheet]

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Alix (Adele) Countess Of Champagne.
Born of, Blois Loir-et-Cher, France.
Buried in Abbaye De Pontigny, Pontigny, Yvonne, France.

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Baldwin (Baudouin) VIII, Count Of Hainaut

Baldwin married Marguerite Countess Of Flanders, [Countess] Mar 1169. Marguerite (daughter of Dietrich D' Alsace, [Count] and Sibilla (Sibyl) (Sybil) Anjou, [Countess]) was born Abt 1134, Of, Alsace, France; died 8 Nov 1194. [Group Sheet]

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Countess of Vermandois

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Sancho III Alfonsez King Of Castile.

Sancho married Blanche Garcia Princess Navarra 28 Jan 1151. Blanche (daughter of Garcias V (VI) Navarre and Marguerite De La Aigle) was born Abt 1138, Navarre, Spain; died 5 Aug 1156, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet]

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Blanche Garcia Princess Of Navarre.

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Henry II "Curt Mantel," Duke of Normandy, Count of Maine and Anjou, King Of
England became king in 1154. At the height of his power, Henry ruled England
and almost all western France. His marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most
famous woman of the age, brought the duchy of Aquitaine under his control.
Henry also claimed to rule Scotland, Wales, and eastern Ireland.

Henry II carried on his grandfather's policy of limiting the power of the
nobles. He also tried to make the Roman Catholic Church in England submit to
his authority. This policy brought him into conflict with Thomas a Becket,
Archbishop of Canterbury. Four of the king's knights murdered Becket while he
was at vespers in his cathedral.

Henry made Anglo-Saxon common law, rather than the revised Roman law, the
supreme law of the land. He introduced trial by jury and circuit courts. In
his later years, Henry's sons often rebelled against him. Two of them, Richard
the Lion-Hearted and John, became the next two kings of England.
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Reference:
"The World Book Encyclopedia", 1968, p H178.
"Royalty for Commoners", Roderick W. Stuart, 1993, p 37-38.

Henry married Eleanore Princess Of Aquitaine, [queen Of Englan 4 May 1152, , Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Eleanore (daughter of Guillaume X Duke Aquitaine and Eleanor De Chatellerault) was born 1120/1121, Chateau de Belin, Gironde, France; died 24 Mar 1204, Mirabell Castle, Tarn-et-Garonne, France; was buried FontevraultAbbey, Fontevrault, Maine-Et-Loire, France. [Group Sheet]

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Marriage annulled with Louis VII on the grounds of consanguinity 11 March 1152
Buried in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, France.
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Reference:
"Burke's Guide to the Royal Family", 1973, p 194.
"Royalty for Commoners", Roderick W. Stuart, 1993, p 38.