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* Charles the Fat, King of the East Franks, France and Holy Roman Emperor ( approximate date )
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After Carloman was incapacitated by a stroke in 879, Louis the Younger inherited Bavaria, Charles the Fat was given the Kingdom of Italy and Arnulf was confirmed in Carinthia by an agreement with Carloman.
Arnulf took the leading role in the deposition of his uncle, the Emperor Charles the Fat.
Arnulf took advantage of the problems in West Francia upon the death of Charles The Fat to secure the territory of Lorraine, which he converted into a kingdom for his son, Zwentibold.
* 881 – Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Emperor
The Carolingian imperial crown was initially disputed among the Carolingian rulers of Western Francia and Eastern Francia, with first the western king ( Charles the Bald ) and then the eastern ( Charles the Fat ) attaining the prize.
However, after the death of Charles the Fat in 888, the Carolingian Empire broke asunder, never to be restored.
" After the death of Charles the Fat, those crowned Emperor by the Pope controlled only territories in Italy.
The Krewe of Orpheus parades on St. Charles Avenue and Canal Street in New Orleans on Lundi Gras ( Fat Monday ) — the day before Mardi Gras ( Fat Tuesday ).
* 839 – Charles the Fat, Roman Emperor ( d. 888 )
The purpose the journey was to attend a diet after being summoned by the Frankish King Charles III, the Fat, to settle the succession to the Holy Roman Empire and discuss the rising power of the Saracens.
He was consecrated in September 885 without waiting for the imperial confirmation ; but when Charles the Fat found with what unanimity he had been elected he let the matter rest.
Only Charles the Fat achieved this briefly.
* Charles the Fat
* Charles the Fat Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 888 )
* Charles the Fat is crowned Western Emperor.
* December 12 – Charles the Fat becomes King of Western Francia, thus for the last time reuniting the Frankish kingdom.
* Charles the Fat is deposed from the entire Carolingian Empire.
One of his sons, Henry, sometimes called margrave and duke in Franconia under King Charles the Fat of East Francia, fell fighting against the Normans in 886 ; another, Poppo, was margrave in Thuringia from 880 to 892, when he was deposed by King Charles successor Arnulf of Carinthia.
The Popponids had been favoured by Charles the Fat, but Arnulf reversed this policy in favour of the rival family of the Conradines from the Lahngau in Rhenish Franconia.
The next year ( 865 ), he divided the remainder of his lands: Saxony he gave to Louis the Younger ( with Franconia and Thuringia ) and Swabia ( with Raetia ) to Charles, called the Fat.
* Charles the Fat ( 839 – 888 )
Charles and King
Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.
He then followed the fortunes of his friend Elector Maurice of Saxony, deserted Charles, and joined the league which proposed to overthrow the Emperor by an alliance with King Henry II of France.
It may also be based on Alfred's later having accompanied his father on a pilgrimage to Rome where he spent some time at the court of Charles the Bald, King of the Franks, around 854 – 855.
* 1640 – Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
* 1521 – Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
* 1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
King Charles II, who founded the Royal Observatory Greenwich in 1675 instructed the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, ".
Arnulf, having distinguished himself in the war against the Slavs was elected by the nobles of the realm ( only the eastern realm, though Charles had ruled the whole of the Frankish lands ) and assumed his title of King of East Francia.
During the Civil War, prior to the siege of Raglan Castle in 1645, King Charles I visited Abergavenny and presided in person over the trial of Sir Trefor Williams, 1st Baronet of Llangibby, a Royalist who changed sides, and other Parliamentarians.
Abhorrers, the name given in 1679 to the persons who expressed their abhorrence at the action of those who had signed petitions urging King Charles II of England to assemble Parliament.
Regarded as a capable soldier by the emperor, Albert ( in 1475 ) took a prominent part in the campaign against Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and in 1487 led an expedition against Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, which failed owing to lack of support on the part of the emperor.
Ben Franklin's mother, Abiah Folger, was born into a Puritan family among those that fled to Massachusetts to establish a purified Congregationalist Christianity in New England, when King Charles I of England began persecuting Puritans.
Emperor Joseph I, acting on behalf of his younger brother King ’ Charles III ’, absent in Spain, claimed that reconquered Brabant and Flanders should be put under immediate possession of a governor named by himself.
After defeating the Army of Sir William Waller at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, King Charles marched west in pursuit of the Parliamentarian army of the Earl of Essex, who was invading the Royalist stronghold of Cornwall.
Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England ( played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales ).
These were followed by groups of infantry ( dismounted cavalry ) commanded, respectively, by the Dauphin ( later Charles V of France ), the Duke of Orléans and King Jean.
On Halgaver Moor ( Goats ' Moor ) near Bodmin there was once an annual carnival in July which was on one occasion attended by King Charles II.
# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.
Following the accession of King James VI of Scotland to the throne of England, his son King Charles I, with the assistance of Archbishop Laud sought to impose the prayer book on Scotland.
Separate coronation as King of Croatia was gradually allowed to fall into abeyance and last crowned king is Charles Robert in 1301 after which Croatia contented herself with a separate diploma
In 1328, King Charles IV of France died without male heirs, as his brothers did before him.
Charles V strongly favoured a council, but needed the support of King Francis I of France, who attacked him militarily.
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