Philip I

noun

Philip I

Philip I14781506MCastilianPOLITICS: hereditary ruler known as Philip the Handsome. 1478–1506, king of Castile (1506); father of Emperor Charles V and founder of the Hapsburg dynasty in Spain
title of Philip II of Spain as king of Portugal

Philip I. achieved nothing during his long reign of forty-eight years except the necessary son, Louis the Fat.

Philip I. brought to the indolent habit inherited from his father a depraved and vicious nature.

In 1107, under Philip I., the members of the municipal body of Bourges are named prud'hommes.

The marriages of Philip I. brought even more trouble and scandal than those of his father and grandfather.

Philip I. was, at Henry's death, in 1060, an infant of seven years old.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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