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  Charles IV of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles IV the Fair (French: Charles IV le Bel) (1294 – February 1, 1328), a member of the Capetian Dynasty, reigned as King of France from 1322 to 1328.
Charles IV died at Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, and is interred with his third wife, Jeanne d'Evreux in Saint Denis Basilica.
Marriage of Charles IV and Marie of Luxembourg, by Jean Fouquet
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 Charles IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (1751–1802), styled "Charles IV of England and Scotland" by Jacobites.
Charles IV of Norway and XV of Sweden (1826–1872).
Charles IV of Hungary and I of Austria (1887–1922).
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 Encyclopedia: Henry IV of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Henry IV was the son of Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre.
Charles VI the Well-Beloved, later known as the Mad (French: Charles VI le Bien-Aimé, later known as le Fol) (December 3, 1368 – October 21, 1422) was a King of France (1380 – 1422) and a member of the Valois Dynasty.
Charles V the Wise (French: Charles V le Sage) (January 31, 1338 – September 16, 1380) was king of France (1364 to 1380) and a member of the Valois Dynasty.
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 Charles IV
When he was born, Charles Emanuel was also fifth in line to the English and Scottish thrones - after Charles, Prince of Wales, Henry, Cardinal Duke of York, King Charles Emanuel III of Sardinia, and the Duke of Savoy (later King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia).
Charles Emanuel's sister Giuseppina suggested a match with her sister-in-law Princess Marie-Clothilde of France, daughter of the late Dauphin Louis and of his wife, Princess Maria Josefa of Saxony.
Charles Emanuel was henceforward recognised by the Jacobites as "King Charles IV".
www.jacobite.ca /kings/charles4.htm   (1480 words)

  
 Charles IV
Charles IV, King of France, called Charles the Fair, was the third and youngest son of Philippe IV and Jeanne of Navarre.
The history of the assemblies summoned by Charles IV is obscure, but in 1326, on the outbreak of war with England, an assembly of prelates and barons met at Meaux.
In May 1314, by order of King Philippe IV, she was arrested and imprisoned in the Château-Gaillard with her sister-in-law Marguerite, daughter of Robert II, Duke of Burgundy, and wife of Louis Hutin, on the charge of adultery with two gentlemen of the royal household, Philippe and Gautier d'Aunai.
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 Timeline - Up to 1330
Queen Isabella concludes a treaty with her brother Charles the Fair, king of France, on behalf of her husband, Edward II of England in regards to the duchy of Guienne.
Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer conclude a treaty with Charles IV of France for peace in the Aquitaine, in which all of the recent conquests of Oliver Ingham, Seneschal of Aquitaine, are returned to French control, and a reparations payment of 50, 000 marks is to be made.
Charles IV of France, on his deathbed, declares that unless his wife, then pregnant, bears a son that the Crown of France belongs to Philippe de Valois.
www.maisonstclaire.org /timeline/timeline.html   (2541 words)

  
 Chronological list of events in the Hundred Years' War
Charles of Navarre's forces were defeated in the battle of Chocherel (May 1364) by the French king's army, led by a low-ranking Breton knight, Bertrand du Guesclin.
Charles [VII] was betrothed to Marie d'Anjou, daughter of duc d'Anjou and Yolande of Aragón.
La Trémoélle, the scheming advisor to Charles VII, was overthrown and Charles [IV] d'Anjou (son of Yolande of Aragón, and held the title of comte de Maine) assumed the position.
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 Charles IV
Charles IV Charles IV was born in 14th of May 1316.
The Queen Mary of France was a sister of John of Luxemburg and hers husband King Charles IV became as godfather of young Charles when he was baptized in 1323.
Charles’ fourth wife was Elizabeth of Pomerania (born 1345 or 1347).
www.pyykkonen.net /praha/en/CharlesIV.htm   (1896 words)

  
 Sly's Fourteenth Century Timeline
Philip IV of France dies, the infant John of France becomes king, with Philip V (called The Tall) as regent.
Charles V of France sends troops through Spain to aid Henry Trastamara (older half brother of Peter the Cruel) in his claim for the throne of Castile and Leon.
Sigismund, the king of Hungary and son of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV marries Queen Mary of Hungary.
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 CHARLES IV - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES IV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
CHARLES IV - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES IV (1294-1328), king of France, called THE FAIR, was the third and youngest son of Philip IV.
Charless first wife was Blanche, daughter of Otto IV., count of Burgundy, and of Matilda (Mahaut), countess of Artois, to whom he was married in 1307.
In May 1314, by order of King Philip IV., she was arrested and imprisoned in the Chftteau-Gaillard with her sisterin-law Marguerite, daughter of Robert II., duke of Burgundy, and wife of Louis Hutin, on the charge of adultery with two gentlemen of the royal household, Philippe and Gautier dAunai.
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 Charles IV --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
king of France and of Navarre (as Charles I) from 1322, the last of the direct line of the Capetian dynasty; his inglorious reign was marked by his invasion of Aquitaine and by political intrigues with his sister Isabella, wife of King Edward II of England.
Unfortunately for Charles I (born 1600, ruled 1625–49), he was king of England in the days of the Puritan Revolution and at a time when new ideas of the rights of the people were coming into sharpest conflict with the old theory of the divine right of kings.
Pope Gregory VII's 11th-century removal of Henry IV from the throne of Germany, one of the episodes of the Investiture Controversy.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9022546   (740 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Charles IV, king of France (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Charles IV (Charles the Fair), 1294–1328, king of France (1322–28), youngest son of Philip IV, brother and successor of Philip V. Charles continued his brother's work of strengthening the royal power.
Charles invaded (1324) Guienne (Aquitaine), a possession of the English king, and in 1327 he compelled England to cede to France the Guienne districts around Agen and Bazas and to pay a large indemnity.
Charles, the last king of the Capetian dynasty, was succeeded by Philip VI, of the Valois line.
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 The Hundred Years' War
On May 20, 1420, the Treaty of Troyes was signed, by which Charles VI recognized Henry V as his heir and also as regent of France; Charles VI also declared his son Charles, the dauphin (later Charles VII), to be illegitimate and repudiated him as his heir.
On the death of his father, the dauphin proclaimed himself king of France, as Charles VII, but the English claimed the French throne for the infant Henry VI, king of England, whose affairs were being conducted by a regent, John of Lancaster.
Charles VII was generally recognized as king of France south of the Loire River, and Henry VI as king of France north of the river.
www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu /antillians/hundredyrswar.html   (1155 words)

  
 French History Timeline
Geoffroi [Geoffrey] IV d'Anjou, [count of Anjou, Maine, and Touraine (1129)] married Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England; he conquered the duchy of Normandy in 1144 and was recognized as duke in 1145.
Charles married (1307) Blanche of Burgundy (c.1296-1326), who along with her sisters (who had married his brothers) was accused the 'Tour de Nesle' scandal.
Charles VIII was the last of the direct Valois line and the last king of the Middle-Ages in France.
xenophongroup.com /montjoie/fr-tl.htm   (4197 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Henry IV
Wishing France to have a king who was respected and hostile to heresy, he declared that Henry of Bourbon had forfeited his rights to the throne of France, deprived him of the crown of Navarre, and released his subjects from their oath of fidelity (9 September, 1585).
The domestic policy of Henry IV was marked by an increased centralization of the royal authority and by great industrial, commercial, and agricultural prosperity, due in a large measure to the intelligent solicitude of Sully.
Henry IV, however, contributed towards it, owing to the influence of Père Coton, by favouring the work of the Jesuits, who, although they had been banished by a decree of the Parlement of Paris, were left undisturbed in the districts under the jurisdiction of the Parlements of Bordeaux and Toulouse.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07225a.htm   (1873 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Exhibit
Edward III 1312-1377, king, eldest son of Edward II and Isabella, daughter of Philip IV of France, was born at Windsor Castle on 13 Nov. 1312, and was baptised on the 16th.
A dispensation was necessary, and Charles V, the new king of France, persuaded Urban V to refuse it, and afterwards obtained the lady and her rich and wide territories for his brother Philip (Federa, iii.
Charles, who was determined to win back the territories conquered by the English, and was only biding his time, now had a fair cause of complaint, especially as these soldiers declared that they were acting in obedience to the prince's suggestion (Froissart, vii.
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 RP's History Online - Charles IV
Charles IV was just as noble - but much more practical than his caravanting father had been, and he took a keen interest in all aspects of rule over the Czech lands.
Charles IV may have been young, but he was no dummy.
It was Charles IV, too, who brought the cultivation of the grape and the wine industry to the beer-drinking Czech lands.
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They had detained Edward in France the previous year when he had gone to pay homage to the French king Charles IV for his lands in Aquitaine and Ponthieu, and it was under Isabella's standard that Edward returned to England in September 1326 to be proclaimed "Keeper of the Realm".
France and Scotland had long been allies and Edward was only too aware that united the two could seriously damage England.
His son, Charles V, ascended the French throne and encouraged the French subjects of the English in Aquitaine to rebel.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Urban IV
He became a canon of Laon and later Archdeacon of Liège, attracted the attention of Innocent IV at the Council of Lyons (1245), and in 1247 was sent on a mission to Germany.
In 1252 Innocent IV had granted the crown of Naples to the English Henry III for his second son, Edmund; but the king had his hands too full at home and was himself too prodigal to allow him to embark on the very costly Sicilian adventure.
Charles of Anjou, though he had refused the offer of Innocent IV, had both the power and the ambition necessary for such an undertaking.
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 Bust of Marie de France (1327-1341), Daughter of Charles IV of France (41.100.132) | Object Page | Timeline of Art ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Bust of Marie de France (1327-1341), Daughter of Charles IV of France (41.100.132)
Fragment of a Tomb Effigey of Marie de France (1327–1341), Daughter of Charles IV of France, ca.
This elegant image once formed a part of the tomb effigy of the princess Marie de France (1327–1341) and her sister Blanche de France (1328–1393).
www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/hd/valo_1/hod_41.100.132.htm   (203 words)

  
 Charles IV, king of Spain. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Unlike his father, Charles IV was an ineffective ruler and in 1792 virtually surrendered the government to Godoy, his chief minister and the favorite of his wife, María Luisa.
As French troops marched on Madrid in Mar., 1808, a popular uprising led to a coup at Aranjuez; the king was forced to abdicate in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
Charles IV and his family have been frankly portrayed by Goya, one of their court painters.
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 Charles IV, king of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Kings' mother: Joanna Laynesmith examines claims that Edward IV was a bastard and tells the dramatic story of his mother, Cecily Neville, Duchess of York.
Mind of an assassin: Ravaillac and the murder of Henry IV of France.
Edward IV and the alchemists: Jonathan Hughes looks at the significance, in alchemical terms, of this reign, and what the king himself made of alchemical prophecy.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0811433.html   (260 words)

  
 The Hundred Years War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Under Henry II, the lands owned by England in France became even larger and the kings who followed Henry found the land they owned in France too large and difficult to control.
Charles did not have any sons to take over his land and all his brothers were dead.
She was the mother of Edward III and Edward believed that because of this, he should be king of France.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /hundred_years_war.htm   (489 words)

  
 Synergy: April 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Charles V's banquet, at the royal palace, in honor of Emperor Charles IV and King Wenceslaus IV; with entertainment commemorating the First Crusade and the capture of Jerusalem by Godfrey of Bouillon (top of page, across entire page).
Emperor Charles IV on pilgrimage to the abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.
Charles IV and King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia receiving presents from the king of France (interesting figures in right margin).
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King John of England explicitly acknowledged Philip as his liege lord for Guyenne (which was part of the duchy of Aquitaine—see the 1337 map).
Henry became a peer of France (the uppermost layer of French nobility), but that in turn meant he acknowledged the King of France as his liege lord.
The situation was ripe for a king who wanted to exploit the ambiguity in the relationship, and King Philip IV of France (1285-1314) was just such a king.
history.boisestate.edu /hy309/100YW/02.html   (945 words)

  
 Hundred Years War
The French, weakened by the conflict between the houses of Burgundy and Orleans for control of the regency that ruled the country for Charles VI, were defeated at Harfleur and then at the decisive Battle of Agincourt.
Charles VI also declared his son Charles, the dauphin (later Charles VII), to be illegitimate and repudiated him as his heir.
In the course of their invasion of the south of France, in 1428 the English laid siege to the last important stronghold of the French, the city of Orleans.
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 Genealogy Data   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
France, Charles Valois Vii Of Birth : 1403
France, Margaret Of Valois Of Birth : WFT Est 1539-1559
France, Louis Bourbon Xv King Of This page, and all genealogical data contained on it are © 2000 Kerry K. Keener (kkkeener@worldnet.att.net).
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