On the death of Louis II in 1417 it reverted to Savoy, and, although Count René again retook the area for Provence in 1471, it had returned to Savoyard dominance by the start of the 16th century, by which point the County of Provence had become united with the Kingdom of France due to the death of Count Charles V in 1481.

During Charles V's invasion of Provence in 1536, Francis I of France sent the Count of Fürstenberg's 6000 Landsknechte to ravage the area in a scorched earth policy.

* Infante Carlos of Spain, Count of Molina ( 1788 – 1855 ), first Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain ( as Charles V )

* 1266 – Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily.

He gained at least one influential disciple in a physician of high professional and social standing in Charles d ' Eslon private physician to the Count d ' Artois, one of the King's brothers.

Under the rule of Charles III and his ministers – Leopoldo de Gregorio, Marquis of Esquilache and José Moñino, Count of Floridablanca – Spain embarked on a program of enlightened despotism that brought Spain a new prosperity in the middle of the 18th century.

Count Borell of Barcelona called for Hugh's help against Islamic raids, but even if Hugh intended to help Borell, he was otherwise occupied in fighting Charles of Lorraine.

Charles Quint, under the titles of Count of Burgundy, Holy Roman Emperor, and King of Aragon, Castile and Germany, among others, encircled France.

On the foreign affairs front, in the Declaration of Pillnitz of August 1791, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, Count Charles of Artois, and King Frederick William II of Prussia made Louis XVI's cause their own.

Both the Legitimists ( embodied in the person of Henri, Count of Chambord, grandson of Charles X ) and the Orleanist royalists rejected republicanism, which they saw as an extension of modernity and atheism, breaking with France's traditions.

* 1983 – Prince Charles, Count of Flanders ( b. 1903 )

* 1127 – Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.

** Blessed Charles the Good, Count of Flanders

* 1733 – François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1798 )

Boniface also placed the city of Florence under an interdict and invited the ambitious French Count Charles of Valois to enter Italy in 1300 to end the feud of Black and White Guelphs, the poet Dante being in the party of the Whites.

Charles was Count of Provence by right of his wife, maintaining a rich base for projecting what would be an expensive Italian war.

In the contest between Odo, Count of Paris, and Charles the Simple for the French crown, the Pope sided with Charles.

Savate was later codified under a Committee National de Boxe Francaise under Charles Charlemont's student Count Pierre Baruzy ( dit Barrozzi ).

In 1534, Count Charles I of Hohenzollern ( 1512 – 1576 ) received the counties of Sigmaringen and Veringen as Imperial fiefs.

* January 9 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service ( d. 1621 )

* July 10 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service ( b. 1571 )

* November 22 – Count of Vannes, Nominoe, defeats the king of Francia Charles the Bald at the battle of Ballon near Redon.

* July 21 – François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal ( b. 1733 )

He has appeared as Count Rugen in The Princess Bride, Charley Ford in The Long Riders, Lord Cromer in Mrs Henderson Presents and Dr. Stone in A Few Good Men.

Philippa was born in Valenciennes, county of Hainaut, in the Low Countries, a daughter of William I, Count of Hainaut, nicknamed the Good, and Joan of Valois, the granddaughter of Philip III of France.

* Charles I, Count of Flanders, Blessed Charles the Good, ( 1080 / 86 Denmark – 1127 Bruges ), count of Flanders

In 1390, Philip also became the Count of Charolais, a title used by Philip the Good and Charles the Bold as the heirs of Burgundy.

For example, the double marriage in 1385 at Cambrai of his son, John the Fearless, and his daughter, Marguerite, to Margaret of Bavaria and William of Bavaria, son and daughter of Albert, Count of the neighbouring Hainault and Holland, prepared the later union of Hainault and Holland with Burgundy and Flanders, as carried out by Philip's grandson, Philip the Good ; the marriages also inserted the new Valois Burgundy dynasty into the Wittelsbach network of alliances: the other daughters of Count Albert had married William I, Duke of Guelders and Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia ; their cousin, Isabeau of Bavaria, had married Charles VI of France, and become Queen of France.

René of Anjou ( Rei Rainièr in Occitan ) ( 16 January 1409 – 10 July 1480 ), also known as René I of Naples and Good King René ( French Le bon roi René ), was Duke of Anjou, Count of Provence ( 1434 – 1480 ), Count of Piedmont, Duke of Bar ( 1430 – 1480 ), Duke of Lorraine ( 1431 – 1453 ), King of Naples ( 1435 – 1442 ; titular 1442 – 1480 ), titular King of Jerusalem ( 1438 – 1480 ) and Aragon ( 1466 – 1480 ) ( including Sicily, Majorca, Corsica ).

The residents of Bordentown nicknamed the Count, " The Good Mr. Bonaparte " ( Good to distinguish him from his younger brother ).

In 1262, Namur fell into the hands of the Count of Flanders, and was purchased by Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy in 1421.

Dameron composed several bop standards, including " Hot House ", " If you Could see me Now ", " Our Delight ", " Good Bait " ( composed for Count Basie ), and " Lady Bird ".

Canute's son Carl became Count of Flanders from 1119 to 1127, ruling as Charles the Good.

The murder of Count Charles the Good of Flanders on 2 March 1127 gave King Louis an even better chance to further William ’ s fortunes.

Blessed Charles the Good ( 1083 – March 2, 1127 ) was Count of Flanders from 1119 to 1127.

* 1434-1480 René I of Naples the Good, Count of Guise ( 1417 – 1422 ), Duke of Lorraine and Bar ( 1431 ), King of Naples and ( nominal ) Sicily and Jerusalem ( 1434 – 1442 ), Duke of Anjou and Touraine ( 1434 ), King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona ( in dispute, 1466 – 1472 ), son of Louis II

Roger Zelazny's novel A Night in the Lonesome October cross-overs Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Frankenstein, Jack the Ripper and the Cthulhu Mythos, although he never specifically identifies them as such (" The Count ", " The Good Doctor ", " Jack ", etc.

Robert I of Artois ( 1216 – 8 February 1250 ), called the Good, was the first Count of Artois, the fifth ( and second surviving ) son of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile.

He was co-author of Count Basie's autobiography Good Morning Blues ( 1985 ).

The various " Players " during the Game depicted in the book are archetypal characters from Victorian Era gothic fiction – Jack the Ripper ( only ever referred to as " Jack "), Dracula (" The Count "), Victor Frankenstein (" The Good Doctor "), and the Wolf Man ( known as " Larry Talbot ", the film character's name ) all make appearances.

* Good Morning Blues for Count Basie ( 2008, Verve )