Philip IV the Fair becomes King of France
1285
On the death of his father Philip III, the seventeen-year-old prince inherited the French throne. Reserved and enigmatic, he would pick fights with popes, English kings, and Knights Templar, and reshape the French state through a generation of clever lawyers. His chief advisors, the legists Nogaret and Flotte, transformed the French monarchy into a bureaucratic machine whose reach extended into every corner of the kingdom.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.