* 851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.

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.

Many of the burhs were twin towns that straddled a river and connected by a fortified bridge, like those built by Charles the Bald a generation before.

* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.

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.

Two of his sons – Charles the Bald and Louis the German – swore allegiance to each other against their brother – Lothair I – in the Oaths of Strasbourg, and the empire was divided among Louis's three sons ( Treaty of Verdun, 843 ).

* 841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.

* 864 – The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Viking.

* 823 – Charles the Bald, Roman Emperor ( d. 877 )

In the century or so following Charlemagne ’ s death, his newly empowered warrior class grew stronger still, and Charles the Bald declared their fiefs to be hereditary.

* Charles the Bald, king of West Francia

* 845 – The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.

The Oaths of Strasbourg are several historical documents which include mutual pledges of allegiance between Louis the German ( d. 876 ), ruler of East Francia, and his ( half -) brother Charles the Bald ( d. 877 ), ruler of West Francia.

The monastery of St. Denis, which had inadvertently conflated the two Dionysiuses, had a good Greek edition of Pseudo-Dionysius's works given to them by Charles the Bald, which was translated into Latin by John Scotus Eriugena in the late 9th century.

Louis ’ decision to jettison the agreement of 817 regarding the division of the empire by assigning a kingdom to his youngest son, Charles the Bald, in 829 was criticized by Gregory in a letter to the Frankish bishops.

He undertook diplomatic missions to Bulgaria ( 866 ) and France ( 869 and 872 ), and he persuaded Charles the Bald, King of France, to be crowned as emperor by the Pope in 875.

Roerik of Dorestad reappeared in Frankish chronicles in 870, when his Friesland demesne was returned to him by Charles the Bald ; in 882 he is already mentioned as dead.

In 843 and 846 under king Charles the Bald, other official documents mention a pagus called Otlinga Saxonia in the Bessin region, but the meaning of Otlinga is unclear.

Charles the Bald tried to prohibit the export of these swords, as they were used by Vikings in raids against the Franks.

After his brother Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald defeated his forces at the Battle of Fontenay ( 841 ) and sealed their alliance with the Oaths of Strasbourg ( 842 ), Lothair became willing to negotiate instead of continuing the warfare.

Each of the three brothers was already established in one kingdom: Lothair in Italy, Louis the German in Bavaria, and Charles the Bald in Aquitaine.

* Charles the Bald received the western portion, which later became France.

In 867, Charles the Bald signed the Treaty of Compiègne, by which he agreed to yield the Cotentin Peninsula to the Breton king Salomon, on the condition that Salomon would take an oath of fidelity and fight as an ally against the Vikings.

* 843: The three sons of Louis the Pious reach an agreement known as the Treaty of Verdun and split the Carolingian empire into three divisions ; East Francia was given to Louis the German, West Francia to Charles the Bald and Middle Francia to Lothair I.

Kenilworth remained a popular location for both James I and Charles and accordingly was well maintained.

Louis accordingly tried to break the two apart, by offering the hand of his elder daughter, Anne, to Charles, that of his younger daughter, Joan, to Edward's youngest brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and that of his brother-in-law, Philip of Bresse, to Margaret.

As the only child of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife Isabella of Bourbon, she was the heiress to the vast, and vastly wealthy, Burgundian domains in France and the Low Countries upon her father's death in the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477., and was accordingly often referred to as " Mary the Rich ".

But the same parliament passed an act 24 June 1721, to enable his brother Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran, to purchase his estate, which he accordingly did.

Charles desired to conceal the true aim of his policy, which he knew would be detested by the country, and he accordingly alleged as a pretext for the impost the danger to commerce from pirates, and the general condition of unrest in Europe.

Charles R. Mitchell, who like Sifton had been a judge during the scandal and had accordingly played no part in it, became Minister of Education and Attorney-General.

Charles accordingly marched out of Oxford on the 7th towards Stow-on-the-Wold, on the very day as it chanced, that Fairfax began his return march from Blandford.

After the death of David Ruggles in 1849, Charles Munde learned " of the opportunity to take up his favorite method ", which led him to pick up where Ruggles left off, thence to the naming of Florence, and accordingly, the name of the Florence Water Cure, also called the Munde Water Cure.

" Extracts from a True Copy of the Journal of the High Court Of Justice for the Tryal of K. Charles I :" " And in order to the more regular and due proceedings of the said Court, they nominate officers, and accordingly chose Mr. Aske, Dr. Dorislaus, Mr. Steel and Mr. Cooke, counsel, to attend the said Court.

In 719, Charles seized West Frisia without any great resistance on the part of the Frisians, who had been subjects of the Franks but had seized control upon the death of Pippin.

The same Charles who had secured the support of the ecclesia by donating land, seized some of it back between 724 and 732.

* 1713 – The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.

* 1281 – An offensive by the Byzantine Empire significantly reduces the size of the Kingdom of Albania, as it recaptures land seized from the Despotate of Epirus by Charles I of Sicily ten years earlier.

Charles seized these at the end of 1266.

* An offensive by the Byzantine Empire significantly reduces the size of the Kingdom of Albania, as it recaptures land seized from the Despotate of Epirus by Charles I of Sicily 10 years earlier.

Two years earlier, the colony had been seized by Protestants following the execution of King Charles I of England and the outbreak of the English Civil War.

When her brother, King Charles IV of France, seized Edward's French possessions in 1325, she returned to France, initially as a delegate of the King charged with negotiating a peace treaty between the two countries.

With the death of the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold in 1477, the Boulonnais and Artois were seized by the French crown, while Flanders and Hainaut were inherited by Charles's daughter Marie.

The ceremonial feathered headdress or quetzalāpanecayōtl that was worn by Montezuma II-the last reigning emperor-was seized by the Spanish Conquistadors in c. 1520 and sent back to Charles V, the King of Spain as a gift.

Only Cherbourg held out: Charles of Navarre begged the English to send him reinforcements there but instead they seized it for themselves and garrisoned it against the French.

Expanded and improved over time, on 4 September 1434 it was seized by Charles VII of France, after its owner, Louis d ' Amboise, was convicted of plotting against Louis XI and condemned to be executed in 1431.

Following the defeat of the Austrian Army on the Bavarian front, Napoleon dispatched Charles Lefebvre to Tyrol, and by May 19 Innsbruck had been seized again and the rebellion seemed quelled.

Many of the earlier papal tiaras ( most notably the tiaras of Pope Julius II and that attributed to Pope Saint Silvester ) were destroyed, dismantled or seized by invaders ( most notably by Berthier's army in 1798 ), or by popes themselves ; Pope Clement VII had all the tiaras and papal regalia melted down in 1527 to raise the 400, 000 ducats ransom demanded by the occupying army of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Over twenty silver tiaras exist, of which the earliest, the sole survivor of 1798, was made for Pope Gregory XIII in the 16th century.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites an 1893 memoir by Charles Godfrey Leland, in which he says " When the Holy Spirit seized them ... the Holy Rollers ... rolled over and over on the floor.

Charles VIII seized a part of the collection of the kings of Aragon.

Charles I conceded militia power among other things but he later admitted, “ it was only so he could escape .” In November the negotiations began to fall through and the New Model Army seized power.

In what today is France, Charles Martel distributed seized lands to his retainers on condition that they serve him by fighting in the new manner, which some attribute to his recognizing the military potentialities of the stirrup.

Louis XI seized it upon the death of Charles the Bold in 1477, but his son returned it to Charles's heirs in preparation for his invasion of Italy in 1493.

Upon the death of Philip's great-grandson Charles the Bold in 1477, King Louis XI claimed the reversion of Burgundy and seized the territory.

On May 13, Rakoczi and Charles Gustav seized the fortress of Brześć Litewski, and on May 17, after a three-day siege, Swedes, Cossacks and Transilvanians captured Warsaw.

The Algiers coup of 1958 led by First Indochina War and Suez Crisis veterans brought Charles de Gaulle to power from retirement and in effect seized power.

The division on the western flank consisted of 13, 650 men and 72 artillery pieces commanded by Arvid Wittenberg who entered Poland on 21 July 1655 and another 12, 700 to 15, 000 commanded by Charles X Gustav who followed in August, while the division on the northern flank consisted of 7, 200 men commanded by Magnus de la Gardie who had already seized Dünaburg with them on 12 July.