See also:CHARLES (1421-1461)
, See also:prince of Viana, sometimes called See also:Charles IV. See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In 1458 Alphonso died and John became king of Aragon, while Charles was offered the crowns of Naples and Sicily
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He declined these proposals, and having been reconciled with his father returned to Navarre in 1459
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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
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This insurrection soon became See also:general and John was obliged to yield
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He released his son, and recognized him as perpetual See also:governor of See also:Catalonia, and See also:heir to the kingdom
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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
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Charles was a cultured and amiable prince, fond of See also:music and literature
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He translated the See also: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
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Yangues y See also:Miranda, was published at Pampeluna in 1843
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See J. de Moret and F. de Aleson, Angles del reyno de Navarra, tome iv
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(Pampeluna, 1866) ; M
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J
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See also:Quintana, Vidas de espanoles celebres (See also:Paris, 1827) ; and G
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Desdevises du Dezert, See also:Carlos d'Aragon (Paris, 1889)
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