Philippe II Auguste (Paris, 1165 ­ Mantes, 1223), king of France (1180-1223), the first which gave itself officially this title; wire of Louis VII et d’Adèle de Champagne. The Capétien last crowned of living of its predecessor, it establishes the power of the dynasty firmly, quadrupling the royal field. To the ouet, it led a long fight against Plantagenêts, exploiting their family dissensions; overcome by Richard Lion Heart (with which it had taken part in third crusade ) with Fréteval (1194) and with Courcelles (1198), it was opposed as of 1199 to Jean without Ground, brother of Richard Lion Heart and new king d' Angleterre. Having called upon the communal militia, it overcame in Bouvines (1214) and finally crushed the coalition trained by Jean without Ground, the Otton emperor and the count of Flanders, thus securing the possession of the annexed grounds: Norman Vexin, country of Évreux and Berry (1200), Normandy (1204). In north, in the south and the east, Philippe Auguste acquired, respectively, Amiénois (1185), Auvergne (1201) and the Champagne (1213). The extension of the field led it to consolidate the royal capacity, in particular by weakening that of the lords, by multiplying the communal charters, by protecting the merchants, and especially while creating of the baillifs and the seneshals on the model of the English sheriffs. From 1200, it was in difficulty with papacy to have repudiated Isambour (Ingeborg) of Denmark and to have married with Agnès of Méran.