Who is King Philip IV, the Fair from The Iron King and what is their importance?

Philip the Fourth, also called Philip the Fair and 'The Iron King' is an autocratic tyrant of the early thirteenth century. This means to say that he rules his provinces of France totally, attempting to centralize all of the civic, religious, military and economic power into his own hands.

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