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Charles of Valois was a powerful magnate in his own right, a key advisor to Louis X, and had made a bid for the regency in 1316, initially championing Princess Joan, before finally switching sides and backing Philip V. Charles of Valois would have been aware that if Charles died without male heirs, he and his male heirs would have a good claim to the crown.
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When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.
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 the Bold, the last Valois Duke of Burgundy.
The death of Charles the Bold, the last Valois Duke of Burgundy, at the Battle of Nancy in 1477 was a pivotal, if under-recognised, moment in European history.
Queen Elizabeth and the Palatine found that the most obvious solution would be to form an alliance with Charles ' enemies, the House of Valois, and ask them to provide a suitable king.
Martin IV put Sicily and Pedro III under an interdict, deprived Pedro III of the kingdom of Aragon, and gave it to Charles of Valois, the younger of the sons of King Philip III of France, whom he assisted in his attempts to recover Sicily by force of arms.
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.
Boniface's political ambitions directly affected Dante when the pope, under the pretense of peacemaking, invited Charles of Valois to intervene in the affairs of Florence.
Earlier ( I. i ), Boniface VIII is also mentioned for his role in sending Charles of Valois to Florence in 1300 to end the feud between the Black and White Guelphs.
* Charles V ( 1338 – 1380 ), called the Wise, was King of France from 1364 to his death and a member of the House of Valois.
* August 18 – Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre marries Marguerite de Valois, sister of King Charles and daughter of Catherine de Medici, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in France.
* April 28 – Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême, natural son of Charles IX of France ( d. 1650 )
* April – Philip of Anjou marries Mary of Naples, daughter of Charles of Valois, duke of Calabria, and Mary of Valois.
* March 13 – Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, son of king Charles V of France ( d. 1407 )
* January 11 – Michele of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France ( d. 1422 )
* Temporary peace is declared between England and France with the marriage of Richard II of England and Isabella of Valois, the daughter of Charles VI of France.
* November 23 – Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France ( murdered ) ( b. 1372 )
On 16 August 1290, the latter married his daughter Margaret to Charles of Valois, son of Philip III the Bold, giving her Anjou and Maine for dowry, in exchange for the kingdoms of Aragon and Valentia and the countship of Barcelona given up by Charles.
Charles of Valois at once entered into possession of the countship of Anjou, to which Philip IV, the Fair, in September 1297, attached a peerage of France.
On 16 December 1325, Charles died, leaving Anjou to his eldest son Philip of Valois, on whose recognition as king of France ( Philip VI ) on 1 April 1328, the countship of Anjou was again united to the crown.
On 2 February 1284, Aragon and Valencia were officially conferred upon Charles of Valois.
* July 8 – Michele of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France ( b. 1395 )
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Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.
He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.
Carl was still Charles A. Sandburg.
He `` legitimized '' Paula for Lilian Steichen, and it was Paula who insisted on Carl for Charles.
That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.
The country was now full of Gazettes and Samuel C. Atkinson and Charles Alexander, who had just taken over Franklin's old paper, desired a more distinctive name.
Somehow Dr. Charles Leale was forced through the mob and squeezed out into the dingy corridor.
So Charles was dead.
On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.
Just about the most enthralling real-life example of meeting cute is the Charles MacArthur-Helen Hayes saga: reputedly all he did was give her a handful of peanuts, but he said simultaneously, `` I wish they were emeralds ''.
Charles Thiot, a splendid Georgia soldier, differed from most of his comrades in the ranks in that he was the owner of a large plantation, well-educated, and nearly fifty years of age.
One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.
In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.
So was the attack upon Charles E. Bohlen when Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Moscow.
The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.
Vincent G. Ierulli has been appointed temporary assistant district attorney, it was announced Monday by Charles E. Raymond, District Attorney.
The victim, Norman B. Wiley, 38, of the 900 block North Charles Street, was treated for cuts at Franklin Square Hospital after the robbery.
Charles Reynolds of Pumpkin Ridge was rabbit showmanship champion.
Anne said it wasn't surprising because Charles was antisocial, a lone wolf, and completely one-sided.
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