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  • Thumbnail for Charles VI of France
    Charles VI (3 December 1368 – 21 October 1422), nicknamed the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé) and later the Mad (French: le Fol or le Fou), was King of...
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    Charles VI (German: Karl; Latin: Carolus; 1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740) was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1711...
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  • Charles VI may refer to: Charles VI of France (1368–1422), "the Well-Beloved" and "The Mad King" Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1685–1740), and Charles...
    555 bytes (102 words) - 20:30, 15 February 2024
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    succeeded to the French throne on the death of his maternal grandfather, Charles VI, shortly afterwards. Henry was born during the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453)...
    62 KB (7,608 words) - 17:47, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles VII of France
    which French kings were traditionally crowned. In addition, his father, Charles VI, had disinherited him in 1420 and recognized Henry V of England and his...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles V of France
    since the beginning of the Hundred Years' War. Charles V died in 1380. He was succeeded by his son Charles VI, whose disastrous reign allowed the English...
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  • Thumbnail for Odette de Champdivers
     1425) was the chief mistress of Charles VI of France (the Mad). She was called la petite reine ("the little queen") by Charles and contemporaries. According...
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  • Thumbnail for Isabeau of Bavaria
    At age 15 or 16, Isabeau was sent to France to marry the young King Charles VI; the couple wed three days after their first meeting. Isabeau was honored...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles III of Spain
    of Spain. Charles succeeded to the Spanish throne in 1759 upon the death of his childless half-brother Ferdinand VI. As king of Spain, Charles III made...
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  • Thumbnail for Henry V of England
    the French throne, disinheriting Charles's own son, the Dauphin Charles. Henry was subsequently married to Charles VI's daughter, Catherine of Valois. The...
    58 KB (6,565 words) - 08:21, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
    1726. In 1722, Charles married Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I and niece of Emperor Charles VI. The couple had...
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    of England seized the opportunity presented by the mental illness of Charles VI of France and the French civil war between Armagnacs and Burgundians to...
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  • Thumbnail for Philip VI of France
    entrusted the government of this province to his grandson, Prince Charles. Philip VI died in 1350 and was succeeded by his son King John II, the Good....
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  • dead human bodies into glass. However, Becher's claim was not true. King Charles VI of France was famously afflicted by the glass delusion. He wore clothing...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles VIII of France
    Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (the godchild's namesake), Joan of Valois, Duchess of Bourbon, and the teenage Edward of Westminster, the son of Henry VI...
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  • Thumbnail for Maria Theresa
    started her 40-year reign when her father, Emperor Charles VI, died on 20 October 1740. Charles VI paved the way for her accession with the Pragmatic...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles II of Spain
    Charles II of Spain (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700) was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. The last monarch from the House of Habsburg, which had ruled...
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  • Thumbnail for Catherine of Valois
    until 1422. A daughter of King Charles VI of France, she married King Henry V of England and was the mother of King Henry VI. Catherine's marriage was part...
    19 KB (2,049 words) - 17:58, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, to help her to negotiate with Charles VI her daughters' rights. When Charles VI presented the original version of the Pactum Mutuae...
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  • Thumbnail for Louis, Duke of Guyenne
    January 1397 – 18 December 1415) was the eighth of twelve children of King Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria. He was their third son and the second...
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