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| | Charles VI on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) |
 | | (Charles the Mad or Charles the Well Beloved), 1368-1422, king of France (1380-1422), son and successor of King Charles V. During his minority he was under the tutelage of his uncles (particularly Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy), whose policies drained the royal treasury and provoked popular uprisings in France and in Flanders. |
 | | Charles freed himself of this influence in 1388, took as his counselor his brother Louis, duc d' Orléans, and recalled his father's ministers, the Marmousets. |
 | | In 1420, under the influence of the Burgundians, who were allied with Henry V and his wife Isabel of Bavaria, Charles accepted the Treaty of Troyes, recognizing Henry V as his successor. |
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