Charles IV of France

Charles IV of France , known as Charles Beautiful the , born on June 18th 1294 with the castle of Creil (Oise), dead the 1328 with Vincennes, was count of Walk then, 1322 with 1328, king de France, fifteenth and the last of the dynasty known as of the direct Capétiens, and king de Navarre (under the name of Charles Ier).

Biography

Third wire of king de France and Navarre, Philippe IV Beautiful the, and from the queen Jeanne I {{Re}} of Navarre, it receives in 1314 the Comté of Walk in Apanage.

It assembles on the throne to dead of his brother Philippe V Length and is crowned with Rheims the February 21st 1322 by the archbishop Robert de Courtenay. As a heir to Jeanne de Navarre, he adds under king de France that of king de Navarre.

Finding the treasure royal exhausted by the abuses the preceding reign, it punishes severely and strips financial the lombards having made all kinds of exactions. It treats with the same rigor the bad judges and the lords who had monopolized goods of the private individuals. It even makes stop Girard of Guette, ex-superintendent of finances of Philippe the Length, which is shown to have diverted a million two hundred and thousand books.

Charles the Beautiful one has with the king of England Edouard II of bloody contentions about the homage that this vassal owes him for its continental possessions with knowing the duchy of Guyenne and the Ponthieu. Starting from 1323, some lords of Gascogne, supported by the English, try incursions on the field of the France. Because the Gascons have as chiefs of bastard of the nobility, this war is called the Guerre of Bastard the.

Marriage and descent

In 1307 or 1308, it marries Blanche of Burgundy, which will be condemned for adultery to the beginning of the year 1314. The year of his advent, the pope Jean XXII cancels the marriage due to consanguinity (Mahaut d' Artois, the mother of its wife, being also its godmother)

The September 21st 1322 with Layered branches, it takes for second wife Marie of Luxembourg which will give him a girl but who will not survive. March 21st 1324, during a voyage to Issoudun in Berry, the car of Marie of Luxembourg is reversed, causing the death of the queen and the male child whom it carried.

July 13rd 1325, the king, always without heir, wife in third weddings, her cousin Jeanne d' Évreux. The latter is confined of a first fore-mentioned girl Jeanne in 1326 and of one second girl, Marie, the following year. It is again pregnant when the king dies in February 1328. It is necessary to await the birth of the child, to know if Capétiens will preserve the throne. It is again a girl, Blanche, which is born on April 1st 1328. This last girl will marry in 1345 Philippe (1336-1375), duke of Orleans wire of Philippe VI of Valois.

Succession

In the absence of male descendant surviving, which then will reign? There are three applicants:

Philippe III Bold the † 1285 ___________________|______________________ | | Isabelle d' Aragon † 1271 Marie of the Brabant † 1322 __________|____________________ ___|______ | | | | Philippe IV Beautiful the † 1314 Charles de Valois † 1325 Marguerite Louis d' Évreux † 1319 ______________|___________________ | † 1318 | | | | | | | Louis X Philippe V Isabelle Charles IV Philippe of Philippe III †1316 †1322 | † 1328 Valois of Navarre _____|________ | | | | | | Jeanne Jean I Edouard III Jean II Philippe III † 1316 of England | of Navarre Charles V | Charles VI | _______________ | | Catherine Charles VII | Henry VI from England Edouard III of England is isolated for the reason which a woman, who does not have the right to go up on the throne, cannot thus transmit this right. This succession disputed by the king of England was one of the primary reasons of the Guerre One hundred Year old.

The throne passes between the hands of Philippe de Valois, first cousin of Charles IV, who became king de France under the name of Philippe VI, while Navarre is restored with its heiress legitimates Jeanne II, whose illegitimacy supposed because of the misconduct of his/her mother was never proven. She married, in 1317, her cousin Philippe d' Evreux, who becomes king of Navarre, under the name of Philippe III of Navarre.

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