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Charles VII (6 August 1697 – 20 January 1745) was Prince-Elector of Bavaria from 26 February 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from 24 January 1742 to his death. He was also King of Bohemia (as Charles III) from 1741 to 1743. Charles was a member of the House of Wittelsbach, and his reign as Holy Roman Emperor thus marked the end of three centuries ...
The son of Charles V, Charles VI (born 1368, ruled 1380–1422) became insane when he reached manhood. Struggles for the control of the government divided the country into two factions. The duke of Burgundy, uncle of the king, had the king’s brother, the duke of Orleans, assassinated. Then civil war broke out between the houses of Orleans and ...
King Charles VII. King Charles VII of France. Born: February 22, 1403. Paris, France. Died: July 22, 1461. Mehun-Sur-Yevre, France (Age 58) Charles VII in History. Though he is looked at as one of the most successful kings of France, due to his ultimate defeat of the English in the Hundred Years War, there were several significant factors at ...
Charles VII, king of France. Charles VII (Charles the Well Served), 1403–61, king of France (1422–61), son and successor of Charles VI. His reign saw the end of the Hundred Years War. Although excluded from the throne by the Treaty of Troyes, Charles took the royal title after his father's death (1422) and ruled S of the Loire, while John ...
The dual monarchy of England and France existed during the latter phase of the Hundred Years' War when Charles VII of France and Henry VI of England disputed the succession to the throne of France. It commenced on 21 October 1422 upon the death of King Charles VI of France, who had signed the Treaty of Troyes which gave the French crown to his ...
Jun 19, 2018 · CHARLES VII of FRANCE, 1422–1450. On a cold winter’s day, twenty-eight-year-old Agnes Sorel, the most beautiful woman in France, lay dying in the tidy stone manor house of the Abbey of Jumièges, some eighty miles northwest of Paris. She often traveled there to give moral support to her lover of many years, King Charles VII of France, in ...
Charles VII (22 February 1403 – 22 July 1461), called the Victorious (French)[1] or the Well-Served (French), was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1422 to his death in 1461. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, Charles VII inherited the throne of France under desperate circumstances. Forces of the Kingdom of England and the Duchy of Burgundy occupied ...
