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Philippe I

Male Bef 1053 - 1108  (> 55 years)

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  • Name Philippe I
    Birth Bef 23 May 1053 
    Gender Male
    Death From 19 Jul 1108 to 30 Jul 1108  Château Melun (Seine-et-Marne), France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6516  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2026

    Father Henri I,   b. Bef 17 May 1008, , , France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Aug 1060, Vitry-aux-Loges, Loiret, Centre, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 52 years)
    Mother Anne of Kiev,   b. 1036, of Kiev, Ukraine Find all individuals with events at this locationd. From 5 Sep 1075 to 5 Sep 1078 (Age 39 years)
    Marriage 19 May 1051  Rheims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2817  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Bertha of Holland,   b. Abt 1058   d. 30 Jul 1093, Montreuil-sur-Mer (Pas de Calais), France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years)
    Marriage 1072 
    Family ID F2929  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2026

    Family 2 Bertrade de Montfort,   b. Abt 1060   d. 14 Feb 1117, Fontévrault, Maine-et-Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years)
    Marriage 15 May 1092 
    Family ID F2930  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2026

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “PHILIPPE I OF FRANCE, King of France, 1060-1108, Count of Paris and Gâtinais, Châtelain of Bourges, son and heir, born in 1053, before 23 May. He married (1st) in 1072 BERTHA OF HOLLAND, daughter of Florenz (or Florent) I, Count of Holland and Westfriesland, by Gertrude, daughter of Berthold II, Duke of Saxony. She was born about 1058. They had two sons, Louis (VI) [King of France] and Henri, and one daughter, Constance. He repudiated his wife, Bertha, in 1092; she died at Montreuil-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) 30 July 1093. He married (2nd) 15 May 1092 BERTRADE DE MONTFORT, divorced wife of Foulques IV “le Rechin,” Count of Anjou and Touraine, and daughter of Simon I de Montfort, Count of Montfort-l’Amaury, by Agnès, daughter of Richard, Count of Evreux. She was born about 1060. They had two sons, Philippe [Count of Mantes, seigneur of Mehun sur Yevres] and Fleury (or Floire) (seigneur of Nangis], and one daughter, Cécile (wife of Tancred, Prince of Tiberiade, afterwards - Prince of Antioch, and Pons of Toulouse, Count of Tripoli). PHILIPPE I, King of France, died in Château Melun (Seine-et-Marne) 29 (or 30) July 1108, and was buried in the church of the Abbey of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire. His widow, Bertrade, died as a nun at Fontévrault (Maine-et-Loire) 14 Feb. 1117, and was buried in the church of the Priory of Hautes-Bruyeres (Saint-Remy-l'Honoré, Yvelines).
      Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1(1725): 73-74. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 13 (1869): 415 (Genealogia Comitum Flandrix: "Philippus pater Grossi Regis duxit in uxorem Bertam, filiam Balduini Comitis Hollandix, sororem Roberti Jerosolymitani Comitis Flandriæ, de qua genuit Ludovicum Regem et Constantium, Andochiæ Principis uxorem Boenmundi. Idem Philippus postea repudiavit eamdem Bertam, et abstulit Fulconi Richin Andegavensi Comiti uxorem suam nomine Bertrandam, de qua genuit Philippum et Florum et [Ceciliam] Comitissam Tripolitanum."). Delisle Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11(1876): 384 (Ex Chronico Vezeliacensi: [Anno] MLIX. Philippus ungitur in Regem. Hic duxit filiam Balduini Comitis Hollandix, sororem Roberti Flandriæ Comitis; et genuit ex ea Ludovicum, et Constantiam uxorem Boamundi Antiocheni."). Durand & Grave Chronique de Mantes (1883): 90, 114-118, 126. Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (Documents sur la Province du Perche, 3rd ser. 2) (1894): 26-27 (charter of King Philippe I dated 1092). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 5 (1898): 114 (seal of King Philippe I dated AD. 1068 - This appears to be from the same matrix as the seal of Henri I, King of the French [see previous generation above], but the lower storey of the throne has been removed, or has been chipped off; the sceptre appears to be more obliquely placed, and the legend altered to: PHILIP DI GRA FRANCORV REX.). Belleval Les Bâtards de la Maison de France (1901): 8-9. Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 240 (Obituaire of Prieuré de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "Philippus, rex Francorum, frater noster, IIII kal. aug. [1108]."). Prou Recueil des Actes de Philippe Roi de France (1059-1108) (1908): 59-63 (Baudouin, son of Baudouin, Count of Flanders styled "kinsman" [cognati] by King Philippe I of France in charter dated 1065), 100-103 (Baudouin, son of [Baudouin] Count of Flanders, styled "king's kinsman" [cognati ipsius regis] in charter of King Philippe I of France dated 1067). Brandenburg Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen (1935) XI 134, Tell II XII 384. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 2 (ancestry of Bertha von Holland), 11 (sub France). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.55 & X.I.316. Van Kerrebrouck Les Capétians 987-1328 (2000): 70-78. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 299 (West Frisia-Hamaland ped.), 310 (France ped.), 311 (France ped.). Online resource: http://www.mittelalter-généalogie.de/kapetinger_koenigliche_linie/kapetinger_familie_philipps_1/philipp_l_koenig-von_frankreich_+_1108.html.
      Children of Philippe I of France, by Bertha of Holland:
      i. LOUIS VI, King of France [see next].
      ii. CONSTANCE OF FRANCE, married (1st) HUGUES I, Count of Champagne (or Troyes); (2nd) BOHEMOND I, Duke of Calabria, Prince of Antioch.”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “HENRI I, Duke of Burgundy, 1016, King of France, 1031-1060, 2nd but eldest surviving son and heir by his father's 3rd marriage, born in 1008, before 17 May. He betrothed to marry MATHILDE OF FRANCONIA, daughter of Conrad II, King of Germany, by Gisela, daughter of Hermann II, Duke of Swabia. She was born in 1027. She died at Worms in 1034, and was buried there in the cathedral. He married (1st) in 1043 MATHILDE OF FRIESLAND, allegedly daughter of Liudolf I of Brunswick, Margrave of Friesland, by Gertrud von Egisheim. They had one daughter. His wife, Mathilde, died at Paris in 1044, and was buried in the church of the Abbey of Saint-Denis. He married (2nd) at Reims 19 May 1051 ANNE (or AGNES) OF KIEV, daughter of Jaroslav I Vladimirovich, Grand-Prince of Kiev, by his 2nd wife, Ingrid (or Ingegarde), daughter of Olaf Skotkonung, King of Sweden. She was born in 1036. They had three sons, Philippe (I) [King of France], Robert, and Hugues le Grand [Count of Crépy]. HENRI I OF FRANCE, King of France, died at Vitry-aux-Loges (Loiret) near Orleans 4 August 1060, and was buried in the church of the Abbey of Saint-Denis. His widow, Anne, served as Regent, 1060-1067. She founded the [convents] at Saint-Martin-des-Champs at Paris and Saint-Vincent at Senlis. Anne married (2nd) in 1061 (as his 3rd wife) RAOUL II “le Grand,” Count of Crépy and Valois, who died at Péronne 8 Sept. 1074. She died 5 Sept., between 1075 and 1078.
      Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS IX (1851): 385, 388-389 (Hugonis Floriacensis, Liber qui Modernorum Regum Francorum Actus: "Rex etiam accepit in coniugium filiam regis Russorum Annam, quae ei tres genuit filios, Philippum videlicet, Hugonem atque Rotbertum."), 389 (Hugonis Floriacensis, Liber qui Modernorum Regum Francorum Actus: " ... Anna, Henrici relicta, nupsit Rodulfo comiti viro nobili et generoso."). Monumenta Germaniæ Historica SS XI (1854): 271 (Wiponis, Vita Chuonradi II Imperatoris sub A.D. 1034: "Eo tempore filia imperatoris Chuonradi et Giselae imperatricis, Mahthilda, nimaie formositatis puella, Heinrico regi Francorum desponsata, obiit Wormatiae, ibique sepulta est."). Piolin Histoire de l'Eglise du Mans 3 (1856): 655 (Robert le Bourguignon styled "nephew of King Henri" [nepos Henrici regis] in charter dated c.1051). Capgrave Liber de Illustribus Henricis (1858): 147-150 (biog. of Henry I, King of France). Certain Les Miracles de Saint-Benoit (1858): 252 (Miracula Sancti Benedicti sub A.D. 1044: "Quo siquidem anno, Mahildis regina Parisiis obiit, quam ex Caesarum progenie matrimonio sibi asciverat praefatus rex; susceptaque regia ex ea prole, hominem decessit, monasterio Sancti Dionysii tradita sepulturae."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11(1876): xlv, 114 (Ex Historia Episcoporum Autissiod: Guillaume, Count of Nevers, styled "nephew" of King Henri I of France [Robertus de patre Guillelmo, nepote Regis Henrici, Philippi patris, Consule Nivernensium]), 157 ("Idem rex Henricus neptem Henrici Alamannorum Imperatoris duxit in uxorem: ex qua filiam unam procreavit; quae infra lustrum defuncta est, matte ejus paulo post eam subsequente."), 161 (Ex Historiæ Francicæ Fragmento sub AD. 1044: "Quo anno Mahildis Regina obit ... Qui post Mahildis Reginae humationem, accepit aliam conjugem, videlicet fliam Juriscloht Regis Russorum, nomine Annam; quæ ei genuit tres filios, Philippum, Hugonem, Rotbertum."), 276 (Ex Continuatione Aimoni sub A.D. 1034: "Rex Henricus neptem Henrici Alamanix Imperatoris duxit in uxorem, etc."), 384 (Ex Chronico Vezeliacensi: [Arum] MXXXVI. Henricus Rex, mortua uxore sua Alemanni Regis filia, duxit Annam filiam Regis Rusulorum; ex qua suscepit filios, Philippum Regem - et Robertum et Hugonem cognomine Magnum. Ipse Hugo genuit Rodulfum Comitem Viromanduorum."). Barret Cartulaire du Marmoutier pour is Perche (Docs. sur la Province du Perche 3rd Ser. no. 2) (1894): 13-16 (charter dated 1050-64 witnessed by Eudes, brother of King Henri I). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 5 (1898): 114 (seal of King Henri I dated A.D. 1035 - The king, full-face, with crown of three fleurons, long beard, tunic and mantle fastened on the right shoulder, and falling down in folds over the breast; in the right hand a sort of flower or fleur-de-lis; in the left hand a baton or sceptre. He is seated on a cushion, upon a throne without back, ornamented with two semicircular headed arches in each of two storeys; feet on a footboard. A narrow frieze and somewhat broader string-course complete the details of the architecture. Legend: HEINRIC DI GRA FRANCORV REX). Scehnée Catalogue des Actes d'Henri 1er, Roi de France (1031-1060) (Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des hautes Etudes 161) (1907). Journal des Savants (1971): 241-260. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 11 (sub France). Revue des Etudes Slaves 57 (1985): 539-564. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.29, X.87. Van Kerrebrouck Les Capétians 987-1328 (2000): 64-70. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 310 (France ped). Marsha L. Dutton, ed. (Jane Patricia Freeland, trans.) Life of Saint Edward, King and Confessor," in Aelred of Rievaulx: The Historical Works (2005): 141 (Henri I, King France, styled "near relative" to Edward the Confessor, King of England).
      Children of Henri I of France, by Anne of Kiev:
      i. PHILIPPE I, King of France [see next].
      ii. HUGUES LE GRAND, Count of Crépy, married ADELE DE VERMANDOIS [see VERMANDOIS 4].”