The quarrel with his wife and the mistrust of his children threw the king under very evil influences, although as a king he tried hard to do his duty; and they sowed the seed of later difficulties which at last overwhelmed him. The internal history of these years is occupied with the judicial and financial doings which have been sketched in the early pages of this chapter; outside there was peace, except in Poictou, where Richard was learning the art of war, winning his first laurels and making his worst and most obstinate enemies. [Sidenote: Accession of Phillip II., 1179. ] In 1180 the long strife and jealousy between Henry II., and Lewis VII., came to an end. The weak and unprincipled King of France, after resigning his crown to his son Philip, a boy of sixteen, retired into a convent and died. Philip inherited all his hatred of Henry, although he was better able to appreciate his wisdom, and showed in his early years a desire to have him as a political adviser and instructor. He inherited, too, all his father’s falseness, craft, and dishonesty, but not his morbid conscience nor his irresoluteness. Without being so great a coward as his father, Philip was yet a long way from being a brave man, and loses much by his juxtaposition with Richard and even with John in that respect. But he was very unscrupulous, very pertinacious, and in result very successful, outliving all his rivals, and leaving his kingdom immensely stronger than it was when he succeeded to it. In the domestic quarrels of his early years, with his stepmother and the counts of Champagne, he availed himself of the advice of Henry, which was given honestly and effectually; but, after Henry’s quarrels with his sons began again, Philip saw his way clearly enough to the humiliation of the rival house; and he took too sure and too fatal advantage of his opportunity. There is no need to dwell on the events of 1181 and 1182; the chief mark of the former year is that assize of arms which has been already mentioned. In 1182 the king was a good deal in Poictou. England was governed now, and chiefly for the rest of the reign, by Ranulf Glanvill, the chief justiciar, who in 1180 or 1179 had succeeded to Richard de Lucy. The country was quiet; so quiet, that when the troubles began on the Continent not a hand or foot in England stirred against the king. English history during these and the following years is a simple record of steady growth; all interest, personal and political, centres in the king. [Sidenote: Second revolt of the young king. ] [Sidenote: His death, 1183. ]