Born c.1132, Philip was the youngest son of King Louis VI of France and his second wife, Adelaide de Maurienne.
[7] During the 1140s, Philip refused to pay homage to the bishop of Meaux, after the latter seized grain as rent for Saint Corneille of Compiegne.
[8] In a display of royal hubris, Philip and an armed group of canons and laymen occupied Saint Corneille of Compiegne and seized the treasury, in 1149, to keep the monastery from being transferred to the Abbot of St Denis.
[9] Despite this, years later Philip refused to relinquish the monastery's treasury to the new abbot,[10] causing Pope Adrian IV to ask Henry of Beauvais to intervene.
[11] Pope Anastasius IV, in 1155, wrote to Louis VII asking that he and Philip not take insult to complaints from the canons of Orleans, which were delivered to him.