Feb 18, 2019
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Anybody wants to hear me sing one of the French folk song that made it's way in Unity?
I'll do it in a few if anyone is interested?
In Game:
Philip IV, also known as Philip the Fair, was King of France from the Capetian dynasty that reigned from 1285 until his death in 1314.
In order to carry out the reform of the kingdom, Philip hired civil servants such as Guillaume de Nogaret. However, Nogaret was secretly the Mentor of the French Brotherhood of Assassins, and used his influence to manipulate Philip into disbanding the Templar Order. With the poisoning of Pope Benedict XI, the French-aligned Clement V succeeded him. Supported by the Papacy, Philip dissolved the Order to seize its fortunes and crush the political influence it held, urging other European monarchs to do the same.
Philip ordered the arrest of all Templars in France, and several raids were performed on 13 October 1307. One these took place at the Temple in Paris, the Order's headquarters. Led by Esquieu de Floyrac and the Master Assassin Thomas de Carneillon, Assassins disguised as Flemish mercenaries arrested Jacques de Molay, the Grand Master of the Templar Order.
As the Grand Master and his fellow Templars were imprisoned, they were charged with heresy and worship of the idol Baphomet. Under torture by Nogaret, Philippe de Marigny and William of Paris, several of them admitted to these charges. On 18 March 1314, de Molay and Geoffroi de Charney were burned at the stake. As Philip and Clement watched, the Grand Master cursed them, claiming that they would be punished by God for their actions against the Templars.
In Real Life:
Born at Fontainebleau around June 1268 while his grandfather was still ruling, Philip, the second son of Philip III (the Bold) and grandson of St. Louis (Louis IX), was not yet three when his mother, Isabella of Aragon, died on her return from the Crusade on which Louis IX had perished. The motherless Philip and his three brothers saw little of their father, who, stricken by Isabella’s death, threw himself into campaigning and administrative affairs. His troubled childhood and the series of blows he suffered explain in some measure the conflicting elements in his adult personality.
In 1276 Philip’s elder brother, Louis, died, and the shock of this event, which suddenly made Philip heir to the kingdom, was compounded by persistent rumours of poisoning and suspicions that Philip’s stepmother intended to see Isabella’s remaining sons destroyed. Vague allegations were circulated that Louis’s death was linked with certain unspecified “unnatural acts” of his father. These rumours, never satisfactorily put to rest, together with the unexpected change in Philip’s fortunes, apparently served to arouse in him feelings of insecurity and mistrust.
When Philip was 16, he was knighted and married to Joan of Navarre. In 1285 he accompanied his father to the south on a campaign to install Philip’s brother Charles on the throne of Aragon. He had no sympathy with the enterprise, however, which was backed by his stepmother and aimed against the king of Aragon, his late mother’s brother. When his father died in October 1285, Philip immediately abandoned the venture.
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Philip intensified his predecessors’ efforts to reform and rationalize the administration of the realm. He dispatched investigators to inquire into the conduct of royal officials and into infringements upon royal prerogatives. Philip persisted in seeking such reforms, which strengthened the monarchy’s position but angered the nobles, townsmen, and ecclesiastics who had profited from the laxer policies of earlier kings.
War with England began in 1294, initiating a 10-year period of conflict that severely strained Philip’s resources. There had been some naval clashes, but full-scale war might well have been avoided had not Philip, perhaps in a fit of youthful bravado, decided to demonstrate his power over England’s mighty Edward I, his vassal, for control of the duchy of Gascony. Philip’s victories in 1297 may have satisfied his ambitions, but they brought no territorial gain, for the many lands that Philip had seized were returned.
Nevertheless, the war was significant. First, the peace treaty of 1303 stipulated that Philip’s daughter Isabella should marry the future Edward II of England—an alliance that resulted in years of peace between the two kingdoms. Second, during the war, Philip’s vassal Guy of Dampierre, count of Flanders, had allied himself with Edward I, a move that Philip considered to be base treachery and that resulted in a breach between the two that persisted until long after Philip’s death.
His reign also saw war with the County of Flanders, another vassal, which gained temporary autonomy following Philip’s defeat at the Battle of the Golden Spurs (1302). In 1306, Philip the Fair expelled Jewish people from France and, in 1307, he annihilated the order of the Knights Templar. Philip was in debt to both groups and saw them as a "state within the state". To further strengthen the monarchy, he tried to control the French clergy and entered into conflict with Pope Boniface VIII. This conflict led to the transfer of the papal court to the enclave of Avignon in 1309.
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The Templars in France, unlike the ones in England, were subjected to torture and so often confessed to these heresies. There was shock throughout Europe when all Templars were arrested in France on the same day in 1307. By March 1314 the last of the Templars were burnt at the stake, supposedly cursing the Pope and Philip IV that they would both die within the year.
The Pope died in April 1314. The Pope’s body was apparently placed in a church overnight and the church caught fire and the body turned to ashes. Philip’s last year was troublesome. He found out two of his daughters-in-law were committing adultery. Their lovers were brutally put to death in the market square at Pontoise and the women were thrown into prison. His rigid morality could not cover up the scandal. In November Philip suffered a stroke while out hunting and died soon after at Fontainebleau.
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I'm not leaving tumblr (yet) but I just thought I'd share the fact that (for the ac fandom at least) there still is the council that is a pretty chill place as of now and you'll most likely see me stay active on there (as soon as I'll have more time). I might even try to start posting my fics and imagines or something. Here's the link for anyone that doesn't know it yet: https://council.assassinscreed.com/en/
The forums are also managed by ubisoft btw. Oh and I'll link my page in the council there at some point if anyone is curious :")
Fun fact: the unity version of V’la l’bon vent completely fucks me up because they end it differently than I’m used too? So yeah, I did something like 5 takes before settling down on this one because the other one (that was a bit better) was actually recorded in my washroom, except ther ewas more echo than I’d thought would be in such a small room? So yeah, you can prolly notice that the ending is on a second take but I’m too tired to retry it again :’ ) Also I might post the washroom take too for funsies so yep, tell me what you think of this? Please????