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Personal data Charles de FRANCE IV 

• He was born in the year 1296 in Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France.

  Attention: Age at marriage (??-??-1308) below 16 years (12).

• Title: King of France
• He died on February 1, 1327/28 in Chateau du Bois-de-Vincennes, Paris, Seine, France, he was 31 years old.
• He is buried in the year 1328 in Basilica de St Denis, Paris, France.
• A child of PHILIPPE IV de FRANCE and JEANNE I de NAVARRE

Household of Charles de FRANCE IV

(1) He is married to Jeanne d'EVREUX.

They got married on July 5, 1325 at Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France, he was 29 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Blanche de FRANCE  1328-1382

(2) He is married to Marie of LUXEMBOURG.

They got married on September 21, 1322 at Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France, he was 26 years old.

(3) He is married to Blanche de BURGUNDY.

They got married in the year 1308 at Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France, he was 12 years old.

Notes about Charles de FRANCE IV

Charles IV (Clermont 18/19 June 1294 - Vincennes 1 February 1328), called the Fair (French: le Bel), was Count of Champagne, King of Navarre (as Charles I), and the last "direct" Capetian King of France from 1322 to his death. Charles was the third son of Philip IV; like his father, he was known as "the fair" or "the handsome".

Beginning in 1323 Charles was confronted with a peasant revolt in Flanders, and in 1324 he made an unsuccessful bid for the elective German monarchy. As duke of Guyenne, Edward II of England was a vassal of Charles, but he was reluctant to pay homage to another king. In retaliation, Charles conquered the Duchy of Guyenne in a conflict known as the War of Saint-Sardos (1324). In a peace agreement, Edward II accepted to swear allegiance to Charles and to pay a fine. In exchange, Guyenne was returned to Edward but with a much-reduced territory.

When Charles IV died without male heir, the senior lineage of the House of Capet ended. He was succeeded by his cousin Philip of Valois, but the contested legitimacy was one factor of the Hundred Years' War.

By virtue of the birthright of his mother, Joan I of Navarre, Charles claimed the title Charles I, King of Navarre. From 1314 to his accession to the throne, he held the title of Count of La Marche and was crowned King of France in 1322 at the cathedral in Reims. Unlike Philip IV and Philip V, Charles is reputed to have been a relatively conservative, "strait-laced" king - he was "inclined to forms and stiff-necked in defence of his prerogatives", while disinclined either to manipulate them to his own ends or achieve wider reform.

Charles married his first wife, Blanche of Burgundy, the daughter of Otto IV, Count of Burgundy, in 1308, but Blanche was caught up in the Tour de Nesle scandals of 1314 and imprisoned. After Charles assumed the throne he refused to release Blanche, their marriage was annulled, and Blanche retreated to a nunnery. His second wife, Marie of Luxembourg, the daughter of Henry VII, the Holy Roman Emperor, died following a premature birth.

Charles married again in 1325, this time to Jeanne d'Évreux: she was his first cousin, and the marriage required approval from Pope John XXII. Jeanne was crowned queen in 1326, in one of the better recorded French coronation ceremonies. the ceremony represented a combination of a political statement, social event, and an "expensive fashion statement"; the cost of food, furs, velvets, and jewellery for the event was so expensive that negotiations over the cost were still ongoing in 1329. The coronation was also the first appearance of the latterly famous medieval cook, Guillaume Tirel, then only a junior servant.

During the first half of his reign Charles relied heavily on his uncle, Charles of Valois, for advice and to undertake key military tasks. Charles of Valois was a powerful magnate in his own right, a key advisor to Louis X, and he had made a bid for the regency in 1316, initially championing Louis X's daughter 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.

Charles IV died in 1328 at the Château de Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, and is interred with his third wife, Jeanne d'Évreux, in Saint Denis Basilica, with his heart buried at the now-demolished church of the Couvent des Jacobins in Paris.

Like his brothers before him, Charles died without a male heir, thus ending the direct line of the Capetian dynasty. Twelve years earlier, a rule against succession by females, arguably derived from the Salic Law, had been recognised - with some dissent - as controlling succession to the French throne. The application of this rule barred Charles's one-year-old daughter Mary, by Jeanne d'Évreux, from succeeding as the monarch, but Jeanne was also pregnant at the time of Charles' death. Since she might have given birth to a son, a regency was set up under the heir presumptive Philip of Valois, son of Charles of Valois son and a member of the House of Valois, the next most senior branch of the Capetian dynasty.

After two months, Jeanne gave birth to another daughter, Blanche, and thus Philip became king and in May was consecrated and crowned Philip VI. Edward III of England argued, however, that although the Salic law should forbid inheritance by a woman, it did not forbid inheritance through a female line - under this argument, Edward should have inherited the throne, forming the basis of his claim during the ensuing Hundred Years War (1337-1453).

In 1307, Charles married Blanche of Burgundy, daughter of Otto IV, Count of Burgundy. The marriage was dissolved in 1322. They had two children: Philip (January 1314 - March 1322) and Joan (1315 - 17 May 1321).

In 1322 he married Marie of Luxembourg, daughter of Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor. They had a son named Louis (March 1324).

On 5 July 1325 he married Jeanne d'Évreux (1310-71). Their children were Joan (May 1326 - January 1327), Marie (1327 - 6 October 1341) and Blanche (1 April 1328 - 8 February 1382).
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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