* Created a rectangular system of surveying public lands, still known as the US Public Land Survey System
PHILIP II AUGUSTUS or THE CONQUEROR (Paris, 1165 - Mantes, 1223.) King of France. The long-awaited and only son of Louis VII and Adèle de Champagne, he first received the nickname Dieudonné. Until the end of the Middle Ages, he was most often nicknamed the Conqueror. The appellation that has since i