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CHARLES (1421-1461)

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CHARLES (1421-1461)  , See also:prince of Viana, sometimes called See also:Charles IV. See also:king of See also:Navarre, was the son of See also:John, afterwards John II., king of See also:Aragon, by his See also:marriage with See also:Blanche, daughter and heiress of Charles III., king of Navarre . Both his See also:grand-See also:father Charles and his See also:mother, who ruled over Navarre from 1425 to 1441, had bequeathed this See also:kingdom to Charles, whose right had also been recognized by the See also:Cortes; but when Blanche died in 1441 her See also:husband John seized the See also:government to the exclusion of his son . The See also:ill-feeling between father and son was increased when in 1447 John took for his second wife See also:Joanna Henriquez, a Castilian princess, who soon See also:bore him a son, afterwards See also:Ferdinand I. king of See also:Spain, and who regarded her stepson as an interloper . When Joanna began to interfere in the See also:internal affairs of Navarre See also:civil See also:war See also:broke out; and in 1452 Charles, although aided by John II., king of See also:Castile, was defeated and taken prisoner . Released upon promising not to take the kingly See also:title until after his father's See also:death, the prince, again unsuccessful in an See also:appeal to arms, took See also:refuge in See also:Italy with See also:Alphonso V., king of Aragon, See also:Naples and See also:Sicily . In 1458 Alphonso died and John became king of Aragon, while Charles was offered the crowns of Naples and Sicily . He declined these proposals, and having been reconciled with his father returned to Navarre in 1459 . Aspiring to marry a Castilian princess, he was then thrown into See also:prison by his father, and the Catalans See also:rose in his favour . This insurrection soon became See also:general and John was obliged to yield . He released his son, and recognized him as perpetual See also:governor of See also:Catalonia, and See also:heir to the kingdom . Soon afterwards, however, on the 23rd of See also:September 1461, the prince died at See also:Barcelona, not without a suspicion that he had been poisoned by his stepmother . Charles was a cultured and amiable prince, fond of See also:music and literature .

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Ethics of See also:Aristotle into See also:Spanish, a See also:work first published at See also:Saragossa in 1509, and wrote a See also:chronicle of the See also:kings of Navarre, CrOnica de los reyes de Navarra, an edition which, edited by J . Yangues y See also:Miranda, was published at Pampeluna in 1843 . See J. de Moret and F. de Aleson, Angles del reyno de Navarra, tome iv . (Pampeluna, 1866) ; M . J . See also:Quintana, Vidas de espanoles celebres (See also:Paris, 1827) ; and G . Desdevises du Dezert, See also:Carlos d'Aragon (Paris, 1889) .

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