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CHARLES (1270-1325)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 937 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES (1270-1325)  , count of Valois, of Maine, and of
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Anjou, third son of Philip III., king of France, surnamed the Bold, and of Isabella of Aragon, was born on the 12th of March 1270 . By his
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father's will he inherited the four lordships of Crepy, La Ferte–Milon,
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Pierrefonds and Bethisy, which together formed the countship of Valois . In 1284 Martin IV., having excommunicated Pedro III., king of Aragon, offered that
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kingdom to Charles . King Philip failed in an attempt to place his son on this
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throne, and died on the return of the expedition . In 1290 Charles married Margaret, daughter of Charles II., king of Naples, and renounced his pretensions to Aragon . In 1294, at the beginning of the hostilities against England, he invaded
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Guienne and took La Reole and Saint-Sever . During the war Flanders Woo), he took
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Douai, Bethune and
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Dam, received the submission of Guy of Dampierre, and aided King Philip IV., the
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Fair, to gain the
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battle of Mons-en-Pevele, on the 18th of August 1304 . Asked by Boniface VIII. for his aid against the Ghibellines, he crossed the
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Alps in
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June 1301, entered Florence, and helped Charles II., the Lame, king of Sicily, to reconquer
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Calabria and Apulia from the house of Aragon, but was defeated in Sicily . As after the
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death of his first wife Charles had married Catherine de Courtenay, a granddaughter of Baldwin II., the last Latin emperor of Constantinople, he tried to assert his rights to that throne . Philip the Fair also wished to get him elected emperor; but Clement V. quashed his candidature in favour of Henry of Luxemburg, afterwards the emperor Henry VII . Under Louis X . Charles headed the party of feudal reaction, and was among those who compassed the ruin of Enguerrand de Marigny .

In the reign of Charles IV., the Fair, he fought yet again in Guienne (1324), and died at Perray (

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Oise) on the 16th of December 1325 . His second wife had died in 1307, and in
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July 1308 he had married a third wife, Mahaut de
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Chatillon, countess of Saint-Pol . Philip, his eldest son, ascended the French throne in 1328, and from him sprang the royal house of Valois . See Joseph Petit, Charles de Valois (Paris, 1900) .

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