Count Philip Alsace FLANDERS

   Another name for Philip was FLANDERS Count.

   General Notes:

Count of FLANDERS.

BOOKS
The Political History of England, Vol II, George Burton Adams Longmans Green and Co, 1905, Ch XV
p333: "...With the crowning of his son, Louis' actual exercise of authority came to an end; the condition of his health would have made this necessary in any case, and Philip II was in fact sole king. His first importantstep was his marriage in April, 1180, to the niece of the Count of Flanders, Isabel of Hainault, the childless count promising an important cession of the territory of southwestern Flanders to France to take place on his own death, and hoping no doubt to secure a permanent influence through the queen, while Philip probably intended by this act to proclaim his independence of his mother's family..."
p382: [1197] "...The young Count Baldwin of Flanders and Hainault had grievances of his own against Philip which he was anxious to avenge. Count Philip, who had exercised so strong an influence over King Philip at the time of his accession, had died early in the crusade, and the Count of Hainault on succeedinghim had been compelled to give up to France a large strip of territory adjoining [Count] Philip's earlier annexation, and on his death Count Baldwin had had to pay a heavy relief..."
Ch XXI, p431:
[1214] "It was about July first thatLouis set out to raise the siege of La Roche-au-Moine, and on the 27th the decisive battle of Bouvines was fought in the north before John had resolved on his next move. The coalition, on which John had laboured so long and from which he hopedso much, was at last in the field. The emperor Otto IV, the Counts of Flanders, Bologne, Holland, Brabant, and Limburg, the Duke of Lorraine, and others, each from motives of his own, had joined their forces with the English under the Earl ofSalisbury, to overthrow the king of France. To oppose this combination Philip had only his vassals of northern France, without foreign allies and with a part of his force detached to watch the movements of the English king on the Loire. The odds seemed to be decidedly against him, but the allies, attacking at a disadvantage the French army which they believed in retreat, were totally defeated near Bouvines. The Earl of Salisbury and the Counts of Flanders and Boulogne with many others were taken prisoners, and the triumph of Philip was as complete as his danger had been great..."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Macropaedia, Vol XIV, p221, Philip II Augustus: "...Philip, on April 28, 1180, married Isabella, the daughter ofBaldwin V of Hainaut and the niece (through her mother) of Philip of Alsace the count of Flanders, who promised to give the King the territory of Artois as her dowry.."