Individual Details
Philippe III "le Hardi" King of France
(1 May 1245 - 5 Oct 1285)
Philippe was born at Poissy, Yvelines, on 1 May 1245, the son of Louis IX, king of France, and Marguerite de Provence. On 28 May 1262 at Clermont-en-Auvergne he married Isabelle of Aragón, daughter of Jaime I 'the Conqueror', king of Aragón, and Violante of Hungary, daughter of Andras II, king of Hungary. They had four sons of whom two, Philippe IV and Charles, would have progeny.
After a previous but failed crusade, Louis IX had the desire to return to the Holy Land and in 1270 he was able to do so. His youngest brother Charles I Etienne, who had become king of Sicily, persuaded him to sail first to Carthage and subdue the Moors there. Plague was raging in the city and the king caught it soon after his arrival and died on 25 August 1270.
Philippe and his wife Isabelle had accompanied him and they brought his body back to France, travelling overland through Italy. In the course of the journey, Isabelle fell from her horse and died of her injuries at Cosenza in Calabria at the end of January 1271, having never set foot in France as queen.
Three years later Philippe married again. His choice fell on Marie of Brabant, of whom he had heard good reports. She was the daughter of Hendrik III, duke of Brabant, and Adelheid (Alix/Adelaide) de Bourgogne. The new queen was only eighteen and Philippe soon came to love her dearly, much to the annoyance of his chamberlain Pierre de La Broce, who felt that his influence over the king was being undermined. In 1276 Philippe's eldest son Louis, aged nine, died suddenly after a mysterious illness. Pierre put it about that he had been poisoned by his stepmother, and for a while things looked very black for Marie until her brother Jan I, duke of Brabant, sent a knight from his court to prove her innocence by combat in the approved style of those days. She was completely vindicated and her accuser was hanged.
Philippe III died of malaria in October 1285, aged only forty. Marie, who had given him a son and two daughters, all of whom would have progeny, survived for many years and died in 1321, during the reign of her step-grandson Philippe V.
Source: Leo van de Pas
After a previous but failed crusade, Louis IX had the desire to return to the Holy Land and in 1270 he was able to do so. His youngest brother Charles I Etienne, who had become king of Sicily, persuaded him to sail first to Carthage and subdue the Moors there. Plague was raging in the city and the king caught it soon after his arrival and died on 25 August 1270.
Philippe and his wife Isabelle had accompanied him and they brought his body back to France, travelling overland through Italy. In the course of the journey, Isabelle fell from her horse and died of her injuries at Cosenza in Calabria at the end of January 1271, having never set foot in France as queen.
Three years later Philippe married again. His choice fell on Marie of Brabant, of whom he had heard good reports. She was the daughter of Hendrik III, duke of Brabant, and Adelheid (Alix/Adelaide) de Bourgogne. The new queen was only eighteen and Philippe soon came to love her dearly, much to the annoyance of his chamberlain Pierre de La Broce, who felt that his influence over the king was being undermined. In 1276 Philippe's eldest son Louis, aged nine, died suddenly after a mysterious illness. Pierre put it about that he had been poisoned by his stepmother, and for a while things looked very black for Marie until her brother Jan I, duke of Brabant, sent a knight from his court to prove her innocence by combat in the approved style of those days. She was completely vindicated and her accuser was hanged.
Philippe III died of malaria in October 1285, aged only forty. Marie, who had given him a son and two daughters, all of whom would have progeny, survived for many years and died in 1321, during the reign of her step-grandson Philippe V.
Source: Leo van de Pas
Events
| Birth | 1 May 1245 | Poissy, Yvelines | |||
| Marriage | 28 May 1262 | Clermont-en-Auvergne - Isabelle of Aragón | |||
| Death | 5 Oct 1285 | Perpignan | |||
| Burial | St. Denis, France |
Families
| Spouse | Isabelle of Aragón (1248 - 1271) |
| Child | Count Charles de Valois (1270 - 1325) |
| Father | Saint Louis IX King of France (1214 - 1270) |
| Mother | Marguerite of Provence (1221 - 1295) |