Philip II crowned King of France
September 18, 1180
The sickly fifteen-year-old son of Louis VII, crowned at Reims, would grow into the king who doubled Capetian royal territory, took Normandy from John of England, and walked into Paris as the man who had beaten the Plantagenets. Contemporaries would call him Augustus. His forty-three-year reign transformed France from a modest feudal kingdom into the most powerful state in western Europe.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.