Elisabeth's daughter, Elizabeth of Pomerania, was the fourth wife of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor.

The Golden Bull of 1356 was a decree issued by a Reichstag in Nuremberg headed by Emperor Charles IV that fixed, for a period of more than four hundred years, an important aspect of the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire.

Rhatigan appeared alongside Charles in the Red Dwarf series IV episode " Camille ".

In 1328, King Charles IV of France died without male heirs, as his brothers did before him.

Isabella of France, sister of Charles IV, claimed the throne for her son, Edward III of England.

Thus the French crown passed from the House of Capet after the death of Charles IV to Philip VI of France of the House of Valois, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty,

** Charles IV ( 1322 – 1328 )

** Charles IV ( 1788 – 1808, 1808 )

Soon Clotaire IV died and Odo gave up on Chilperic and, in exchange for recognising his dukedom, surrendered the king to Charles, who recognised his kingship over all the Franks in return for legitimate royal affirmation of his mayoralty, likewise over all the kingdoms ( 718 ).

When Chilperic II died the following year ( 720 ), Charles appointed as his successor the son of Dagobert III, Theuderic IV, who was still a minor, and who occupied the throne from 720 to 737.

* 1916 – The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.

1356 Charles IV issued his Golden Bull-regulating the election of Holy Roman Emperors.

* Czech, mainly during the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV but also during other periods of Bohemian control over the HRE.

After the death of Charles III in 1788 and revolution in France in 1789, during the reign of Charles IV, Goya reached his peak of popularity with royalty.

Charles IV of Spain and His Family, 1800.

In 1789 he was made court painter to Charles IV and in 1799 he was appointed First Court Painter with a salary of 50, 000 reales and 500 ducats for a coach.

His portraits are notable for their disinclination to flatter, and in the case of Charles IV of Spain and His Family, the lack of visual diplomacy is remarkable.

Modern interpreters have seen this portrait as satire ; it is thought to reveal the corruption present under Charles IV.

Goya painted the Spanish royal family, including Charles IV of Spain and Ferdinand VII.

Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.

Between 1346 and 1378 Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg, king of Bohemia, sought to restore the imperial authority.

After him all kings and emperors relied on the lands of their own family ( Hausmacht ): Louis IV of Wittelsbach ( king 1314, emperor 1328 – 47 ) relied on his lands in Bavaria ; Charles IV of Luxembourg, the grandson of Henry VII, drew strength from his own lands in Bohemia.

** Charles I ( 1322 – 1328 )

** Charles IV the Fair, 1322 – 1328

Charles IV, known as the Fair ( 18 / 19 June 1294 – 1 February 1328 ), was the King of France and of Navarre ( as Charles I ) and Count of Champagne from 1322 to his death: he was the last French king of the senior Capetian lineage.

In 1307, Charles married Blanche of Burgundy, daughter of Otto IV, Count of Burgundy The marriage was dissolved in 1322, they had two children:

On 1 August 1322, John XXII issued a general decree against them, and after sending King Robert ( 4 February 1325 ) the Bulls specially directed against Ceva, on 10 May 1325, demanded their imprisonment at the hands of King Robert and of Charles, Duke of Calabria.

These titles returned to the throne when Charles became king in 1322.

The practice of expelling the Jews accompanied by confiscation of their property, followed by temporary readmissions for ransom, was used to enrich the crown: expulsions from Paris by Philip Augustus in 1182, from France by Louis IX in 1254, by Charles IV in 1322, by Charles V in 1359, by Charles VI in 1394.

The Tower of London is famous as prison for political detainees, and Pontefract Castle at various times held Thomas of Lancaster ( 1322 ), Richard II ( 1400 ), Earl Rivers ( 1483 ), Scrope, Archbishop of York ( 1405 ), James I of Scotland ( 1405 – 1424 ) and Charles, Duke of Orléans ( 1417 – 1430 ).

The most notable such expulsions were from Paris by Philip Augustus in 1182, from the whole of France by Louis IX in 1254, by Charles IV in 1306, by Charles V in 1322 and by Charles VI in 1394.

Vincennes was more than the grim fortress: Philippe III ( in 1274 ) and Philippe IV ( in 1284 ) were each married there and three 14th-century kings were born at Vincennes: Louis X ( 1316 ), Philippe V ( 1322 ) and Charles IV ( 1328 ).

Examples of legislation enshrining competition principles include the constitutiones juris metallici by Wenceslaus II of Bohemia between 1283 and 1305, condemning combination of ore traders increasing prices ; the Municipal Statutes of Florence in 1322 and 1325 followed Zeno's legislation against state monopolies ; and under Emperor Charles V in the Holy Roman Empire a law was passed " to prevent losses resulting from monopolies and improper contracts which many merchants and artisans made in the Netherlands.

In 1324, he commanded with success the army of his nephew Charles IV ( who succeeded Philip V in 1322 ) to take Guyenne and Flanders from King Edward II of England.

* Charles the Fair ( 1314 – 1322 )

* On Charles ’ succession to the throne in 1322, he exchanged the county with Louis of Bourbon for the County of Clermont.

The first quarter of the century saw each of Philip's sons reign in rapid succession: Louis X ( 1314 – 1316 ), Philip V ( 1316 – 1322 ) and Charles IV ( 1322 – 1328 ).

Eventually, it was decided based on several legal reasons ( later reinterpreted as Salic Law ) that Jeanne was ineligible to inherit the throne, which passed to the Comte de Poitou, who became Philip V. He, however, produced no surviving sons with his wife, Joan, Countess of Burgundy ( 1291 – 1330 ), who had been cleared of her charges of adultery ; thus, when he died in 1322, the crown passed to his brother, Charles ( 1294 – 1328 ), Comte de La Marche, who became Charles IV ; the County of Burgundy, brought to the Capetians by the marriage of Joan and Philip V, remained with Joan, and ceased to be part of the royal domains.

* Charles Atlas ( 1892 – 1972 ), a famous bodybuilder

* Emperor Charles I. of Austria ( 1916 – 1918 ) http :// www. youtube. com / watch? v = jMU9FFzez1A

* 1726 – Charles Burney, English historian ( d. 1814 )

* 1936 – Charles Napier, American actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1961 – Charles Mann, American football player

* 1958 – Charles Berling, French actor, director and screenwriter

* 851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.

* 1642 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors.

* 1637 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician ( d. 1715 )

* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1877 – Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited ( d. 1910 )

* 1950 – Charles Fleischer, American actor

* 1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1745 )

* 1874 – Charles Fort, American writer ( d. 1932 )

* 1910 – Charles Crichton, English director ( d. 1999 )

* 1963 – Charles Ingram, English game show contestant and author

* 1980 – Charles McCarthy, American mixed martial artist

* 1969 – Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate ( wife of Roman Polanski ), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.

* 1754 – Pierre Charles L ' Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, planner of Washington, D. C. ( d. 1825 )

* 1797 – Charles Robert Malden, English naval officer ( d. 1855 )

* 1901 – Charles Farrell, American actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1662 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset ( d. 1748 )

* 1904 – Charles " Buddy " Rogers, American actor and trombonist ( d. 1999 )

* 1830 – Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.

* 1899 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter ( d. 1995 )