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CHARLES (1270-1325)

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

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

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

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