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Charles of Valois (12 March 1270 – 16 December 1325), the fourth son of King Philip III of France and Isabella of Aragon, [1] was a member of the House of Capet and founder of the House of Valois, whose rule over France would start in 1328. Charles ruled several principalities. He held in appanage the counties of Valois, Alençon (1285), and ...
Charles was the second son of Charles of Valois and his first wife Margaret, Countess of Anjou, [1] and brother of Philip VI of France. In April 1314 he married Joan of Joigny, [2] who succeeded her father John II as Countess of Joigny in 1335, but she died on 2 September 1336. They had no children. Charles made his debut in Guyenne under the ...
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Coat of arms of the counts and dukes of Valois. The Valois ( UK : / ˈ v æ l w ɑː / VAL -wah , also US : / v æ l ˈ w ɑː , v ɑː l ˈ w ɑː / va(h)l- WAH , [1] [2] French: [valwa] ; originally Pagus Valensis ) was a region in the valley of the Oise river in Picardy in the north of France .
Charles III was the count of Valois from 1285 and of Anjou and Maine from 1290. He was the son of a king, brother of a king, uncle of three kings, and a father of a king. Though he himself never gained a crown, he sought at various times those of Aragon, France, Constantinople, and the Holy Roman.
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The House of Valois was a branch of the Capetian family, for it was descended from Charles of Valois, whose Capetian father, King Philip III, awarded him the county of Valois in 1285. Charles’s son and successor, Philip, count of Valois, became king of France as Philip VI in 1328, and thus began the Valois dynasty.
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Charles of Valois (12 March 1270 – 16 December 1325), the fourth son of King Philip III of France and Isabella of Aragon, was a member of the House of Capet and founder of the House of Valois, whose rule over France would start in 1328. Charles. Effigy of Charles of Valois, Basilica of Saint-Denis. Count of Valois. Reign.
Charles of Valois (12 March 1270 – 16 December 1325) [1] was the third son of Philip III of France and Isabella of Aragon. [2] He was a member of the House of Capet and founded the House of Valois .
