Philip I of France

Philip I (23 May 1052 – 29 July 1108), called the Amorous (French: l' Amoureux), is King of France from 1060 to his death.

His reign, like that of most of the early Direct Capetians, is extraordinarily long for the time.

The monarchy begins a modest recovery from the low it had reached in the reign of his father and he adds to the royal demesne the Vexin and Bourges.

Philip is the son of Henry I and Anne of Kiev.

His name is of Greek origin, being derived from Philippos, meaning "lover of horses".

It is rather exotic for Western Europe at the time and had been bestowed upon him by his Eastern European mother.

Although he was crowned king at the age of seven, until age fourteen (1066) his mother acts as regent, the first queen of France ever to do so.

Her co-regent is Baldwin V of Flanders.

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