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

The Château Trompette ( Trumpet Castle ) and the Fort du Hâ, built by Charles VII of France, were the symbols of the new domination, which however deprived the city of its richness by halting the wine commerce with England.

Its importance waned somewhat when the French king, Charles VII, took the city at the end of the Hundred Years ' War and the Adour changed course shortly afterwards, leaving Bayonne without its access to the sea.

** Charles VII ( 1422 – 1461 )

** Charles VII ( 1735 – 1759 )

** Charles VII ( 1735 – 1759 )

* Charles VII ( 1422 – 1461 )

Under Pope Clement VII ( 1523 – 34 ), troops of the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sacked Papal Rome in 1527, “ raping, killing, burning, stealing, the like had not been seen since the Vandals ”.

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

* 1403 – Charles VII of France ( d. 1461 )

* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.

* 1450 – Agnès Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France ( b. 1421 )

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.

After the death of Charles II in 1685, his Catholic brother King James II & VII was crowned.

When Charles died in 1685 and his brother, a Roman Catholic, succeeded him as James VII of Scotland ( and II of England ), matters came to a head.

*** English interlude ( between Charles VI and VII ):

** Charles VII the Well Served, 1422 – 1461

Through his maternal grandfather, Prince Harry is descended from King Henry IV of France, King Charles II and King James II and VII.

The reigns of the last three Stuart Kings – Charles I, Charles II and James II and VII – were marked by growing Royal resistance to this developing consensual model of government.

In 1685 Charles II was succeeded by his Roman Catholic brother, James II and VII.

* 1742 – Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.

Claiming divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years ' War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII of France.

The uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief mission.

The staunch Protestant Duke Charles forced the Catholic King to let go of the throne of Sweden in 1599, a part of the preliminary religious strife before the Thirty Years ' War, and reigned as regent before taking the throne as Charles IX of Sweden in 1604.

Louis was succeeded in turn by a younger brother, Charles X, who reigned from 1824 to 1830.

Although the young Swedish King Charles XII ( 1682 – 1718 ; reigned 1697 – 1718 ) won spectacular victories in the early years of the Great Northern War, most notably in the stunning success against the Russians at the Battle of Narva ( 1700 ), his plan to attack Moscow and force Russia into peace proved too ambitious.

The archbishops held the important prerogative of the consecration of the kings of France — a privilege which they exercised ( except in a few cases ) from the time of Philippe II Augustus ( anointed 1179, reigned 1180 – 1223 ) to that of Charles X ( anointed 1825 ).

Leopold III ( born as Léopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel ( French ) or Leopold Filips Karel Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel ( Dutch ) or Leopold Philipp Karl Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel ( German ); 3 November 1901 – 25 September 1983 ) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951, when he abdicated in favour of the heir apparent, his son Baudouin.

Charles X ( Charles Philippe ; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836 ) was known for most of his life as the Comte d ' Artois before he reigned as King of France and of Navarre from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830.

However, Henry V predeceased Charles VI, on whose death the French crown passed to his grandson, Henry VI, the infant son of Henry V and Catherine of France, in whose name regents reigned in England and France.

Though known as King Charles XIII in Sweden, he was actually the seventh Swedish king by that name, as Charles IX ( reigned 1604 – 1611 ) had adopted his numeral after studying a fictitious history of Sweden.

Charles X had one legitimate child by Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp: his successor Charles XI ( 1655 – 1697, reigned 1660 – 1697 ).

In July 1864 Charles ( 1823 – 1891, reigned 1864 – 1891 ) succeeded his father William I as king and had almost at once to face considerable difficulties.

On October 6, 1891 King Charles died suddenly ; his cousin William II ( 1848 – 1921, reigned 1891 – 1918 ) succeeded and continued the policy of his predecessor.

Bernadotte reigned as King Charles XIV of Sweden and Carl III Johan of Norway from 5 February 1818 until his death on 8 March 1844.

King James I ( reigned 1603 – 1625 ) greatly increased the popularity of horse racing there, and King Charles I followed this by inaugurating the first cup race in 1634.

Charles II () ( 6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700 ) was the last Habsburg who reigned in Spain ( Castile and Aragon ).

* Charles IX ( reigned 1599 – 1611 ; officially became king in March 1604 )

Charles then reigned for three years, sharing power with the riksråd, until his death in Stockholm in May 1470.

His grandfather Constantin Franz von Neurath had served as Foreign Minister under King Charles I of Württemberg ( reigned 1864 – 1891 ); his father Konstantin Sebastian von Neurath ( d. 1912 ) had been a Free Conservative member of the German Reichstag parliament and Chamberlain of King William II of Württemberg.

Unfortunately Charles's political judgment was appalling – he reigned for eleven years without convening the Parliament of England, as he was not disposed to accept direction from it when it was sitting, and the ensuing Civil War eventually cost Charles both his crown and his head.

Charles Edward reigned until November 18, 1918 during the German Revolution, when the Workers ' and Soldiers ' Council of Gotha deposed him.

Charles proved the last of the elder branch of the House of Valois, and upon his death at Amboise the throne passed to a cousin, the duc d ' Orléans, who reigned as King Louis XII of France, who would try to make good his clearer claim to the Duchy of Milan.