Philip Augustus annexed Auvergne to the royal demesne
as modifierroyal demesne lands
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England, or rather the king of England, had virtually no army beyond that recruited on demand from the royal demesne, and that provided on request by the nobility.
While Philip was hardly more than first among equals, he did manage to add a bit to the royal demesne, and that as a side-effect of the First Crusade.
Louis was not always successful in these campaigns, but he never lost disastrously and he was successful often enough that by the end of the reign he, too, had added a bit to the royal demesne.
Normandy alone yielded as much revenue as the entire royal demesne had in his father's day; Philip's conquests in total quadrupled crown income.
Portions of Leinster, notably Dublin and Wexford, were set aside to constitute royal demesne.
Aquitaine did not enter the royal demesne; instead, Eleanor married Henry Plantagenet, who soon became the King of England, and the great French duchy became the property of the English.
In France, the Capetian kings generally held on to such lands, adding them to the royal demesne.
They and their Plantagenet successors introduced game preserves and royal demesnes, codified the laws and imposed draconian punishments on those who transgressed.
Worst of all, Richard fatally undermined England's fiscal base, namely revenue from royal demesne lands, at a time when Philip Augustus was vastly expanding the French royal demesne.
As king he underwrote the invasion and conquest of Languedoc, thereby greatly adding to the royal demesne.