Then the king came to the Haye in Touraine and his men had passed the river of Loire, some at the bridge of Orléans and some at Meung, at Saumur, at Blois, and at Tours and whereas they might: they were in number a twenty thousand men of arms beside other ; there were a twenty-six dukes and earls ( Counts ) and more than sixscore banners, and the four sons of the king, who were but young, the duke Charles of Normandy, the lord Louis, that was from thenceforth duke of Anjou, and the lord John duke of Berry, and the lord Philip, who was after duke of Burgoyne ".

* June 9 – Battle of St Pol de Leon: English army defeats Charles of Blois in Brittany.

* September 29 – Battle of Auray: The Breton War of Succession ends with the victory of the House of Montfort over Charles of Blois.

Notable SOM architects include: Gordon Bunshaft, Natalie de Blois, Myron Goldsmith, Bruce Graham, Brigitte Peterhans, Gertrude Kerbis, Walter Netsch, Edward Charles Bassett, Adrian Smith, Larry Oltmanns, Fazlur Rahman Khan.

In early 1429, Charles de Bourbon ( Count of Clermont ) assembled a French-Scottish force in Blois for the relief of Orleans.

* Charles, Duke of Brittany ( 1319 – 1364 ), Blessed Charles of Blois

Normandy called off the siege of Aiguillon and retreated northward, while Sir Thomas Dagworth captured Charles of Blois in Brittany.

Among the people Charles brought from Italy was Pacello da Mercogliano who designed the gardens at the châteaux of Ambois and Blois ; his work was highly influential amongst French landscape designers.

The medieval castle was purchased in 1391 by Louis, duc d ' Orléans, brother of Charles VI ; after Louis ' assassination, his widow, Valentina Visconti, retired to this castle at Blois.

It was later inherited by their son, Charles d ' Orléans the poet, who was taken prisoner at Agincourt and spent twenty-five years as a hostage in England, before returning to his beloved Blois, which he partly rebuilt as a more commodious dwelling.

This followed the Breton War of Succession, when English forces had supported John V, Duke of Brittany, against his rival for the Dukedom Charles of Blois, who was supported by France.

Bust of Charles Pierre François Augereau at the Chateau de Blois

When his half brother, John IV asserts his claim, this is rejected by the King of France who favors the competing claims of Joanna of Dreux and her husband Charles of Blois.

In 1337 Joan, Duchess of Brittany married Charles de Blois ( Charles I, Duke of Brittany ) but war ensues upon their assumption of the titles Duke and Duchess of Brittany due to the opposition of John IV who does not cede his own rights.

Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne ( 26 March 1554 – 3 October 1611 ), or Charles de Guise, was a French nobleman of the house of Guise and a military leader of the Catholic League, which he headed during the French Wars of Religion, following the assassination of his brothers at Blois in 1588.

In the battle, which began as a siege, an Anglo-Breton army, led by Duke John de Montfort and assisted by English forces commanded by Sir John Chandos, opposed a Franco-Breton army led by his archrival Charles of Blois.

Two days before, Charles of Blois had arrived east of the abbey of Lanvaux.

On the 29 September, attempts at agreement having failed, Charles of Blois prepared for the attack.

Rejecting the advice of du Guesclin, Charles of Blois then ordered the attack against Montfort's forces.

On the left the Count of Auxerre, on the right Du Guesclin, in the center Charles of Blois.

The left wing then folded in turn, the Count of Auxerre was captured, and the troops of Charles of Blois broke and fled.

In 1360, he married Marie of Blois ( born 1345, died 1404 ), Lady of Guise, daughter of Charles, Duke of Brittany and Joanna of Dreux.

Joanna of Penthièvre or Joanna the Lame ( in French Jeanne de Penthièvre, Jeanne la Boiteuse ) ( 1319 – 10 September 1384 ) was reigning Duchess of Brittany ( suo jure ) together with her husband Charles of Blois between 1341 and 1364.

Then in 1319 a rumored plot was uncovered which had planned to dispose of John and replace him with their eldest son Charles.

But in 1319 Charles I of Hungary regained control over Belgrade and banovina Mačva while Milutin held control in Braničevo.

Magnus IV of Sweden, a descendant of Ragnhild Magnusdottir according to the medieval sources, ascended the Norwegian throne in 1319, after which all of Norway's kings, except Charles VIII, Charles XIV and Oscar I of Sweden, have similarly been her descendants.

* 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 )