Complete the account of Capetian consolidation.
The dynasty began in ______ with a royal domain around Paris smaller than several of its vassals’ holdings. Philip II took ______ and the Angevin lands in western France from the English king, confirming the conquest by victory at ______ in 1214. From 987 until 1316 every king was succeeded by his own ______, which spared France the regencies and disputed successions that wrecked other dynasties.
Word bank: 987 · Normandy · Bouvines · son · 1066 · Poitiers
Hints
- The dynasty starts at the end of the tenth century.
- The great Angevin province recovered by Philip Augustus lies across the Channel approaches.
Show the answer
The dynasty began in 987 with a royal domain around Paris smaller than several of its vassals’ holdings. Philip II took Normandy and the Angevin lands in western France from the English king, confirming the conquest by victory at Bouvines in 1214. From 987 until 1316 every king was succeeded by his own son, which spared France the regencies and disputed successions that wrecked other dynasties.
The biological point is easy to dismiss and should not be. Three centuries of father-to-son succession meant no minorities to be exploited, no rival claimants for barons to back, and no interruption in the slow accumulation of domain and office. When the run finally broke in the 1310s, the resulting succession dispute helped start the Hundred Years War.
Practise The Feudal Monarchies
The app has 5 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. History II is free to start.
More questions on The Feudal Monarchies
- Arrange these developments in medieval state-building, earliest first.
- Litigants in twelfth-century England increasingly took their disputes to royal courts rather than to their…
- Why did extraordinary taxation tend to produce representative assemblies?
- In which year was Domesday Book compiled, surveying landholding and value across most of England?
- Arrange the stages by which a king’s authority grew beyond that of an ordinary lord.
- The Golden Bull of 1356 fixed the imperial election in seven electors. How does an elective crown weaken a…
- From Hugh Capet’s accession in 987 until 1328 the French crown stayed in one family. Estimate how many years…
- A twelfth-century king was merely a 'lord of lords', whereas a fourteenth-century king functioned as a…