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See also:CHARLES (1421-1461) , See also:prince of Viana, sometimes called 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. 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. 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. 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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