France (ch8s1/s5 & Notes) Flashcards
Why was hugh Capet elected King?
Too weak to pose a threat
Little land
How was the French King chosen in 987? Who was he?
The nobles elected Hugh Capet
How did the Capet Kings increase their royal power?
Stopped electrifying kings - passed down father to son (lasted 300 years)
Added to their land by playing novels against eachother
Won support of church
Built an effective bureaucracy- collected taxes and imposed royal law
What did Philip II (Philip Augustus) do instead of appoint nobels to government officials?
Paid middle class officials who would owe him their loyalty
What territories fell under French control while Philip Augustus ruled?
Normandy
Anjou
Southern France
What did Louis IX do to insure power of French King?
Expanded royal courts
Outlawed private wars (private armies)
Ended serfdom in his personal domain
Famous city and state named after a French King?
St Louis, Missouri
Louisiana
Why did Philip IV get into a conflict with the pope?
Tried to collect taxes from clergy, said would arrest any clergy who didn’t pay
Pope boniface VIII forbade him from doing that
Philip sent troops to seize the pope but the pope escaped
New pope appointed, moved papal court to Avignon (France)
3 parts of estates general
1302
Nobility -both are 3-4% of
Clergy. -the population but still
Get 2/3 vote (balanced)
Townspeople
Hundred Years’ War
England vs France
1337-1453
Unification of France
Control of English Channel
English was winning at first
Joan of arc fought for France
Articles 39 and 40
No selling offices, no appointing relatives, no bribes
Equal justice, no bribery or corruption
Joan of arc
Peasant girl, claimed to have been sent by God to save France in war
Charles VII (King) authorized her to lead army against english
Captured by allies of England, tried for witchcraft and burned (church declared her a saint)
