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Charles of Orléans (1459 – 1 January 1496) (French: Charles d'Orléans) was the Count of Angoulême from 1467 until his death. He succeeded his father, John , and was initially under the regency of his mother, Margaret of Rohan , assisted by Jean I de La Rochefoucauld, one of his vassals.
Charles is a major character in Margaret Frazer's The Maiden's Tale, a historical mystery and fictional account of a few weeks of his life in England in the autumn of 1439, shortly before his release in 1440. Charles is a minor character in the historical fiction novel Crown in Candlelight by Rosemary Hawley Jarman.
Charles d'Orléans was born at the Palais Royal in Paris, the official city residence of the Orléans family since 1692. [1] Inside his family, he was nicknamed Pimpin. [2]He was the fourth of six sons born to the Orléans; Ferdinand Philippe born in 1810; the Duke of Nemours born in 1814; the Prince of Joinville born in 1818 who was followed by Charles.
Charles II de Valois, Duke of Orléans (1522–1545), son of King Francis I of France Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin (1691–1744), French churchman and scholar Charles d'Orléans, Duke of Penthièvre , Duke of Penthièvre (1820–1828) son of Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans and Maria Amalia of Naples
King Charles ascended to the throne on September 8, 2023, upon the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth. Robert Hardman's new biography takes us inside the first year of Charles's reign—"from the ...
From his birth until the death of his oldest brother Francis, Dauphin of France (Francis I's eldest son), in 1536, Charles was known as the Duke of Angoulême. [1] After his brother's death, he became Duke of Orléans, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] a title previously held by his surviving brother Henry, who had succeeded Francis as Dauphin and would later become ...
The child duke, however, died one year later, and the title passed to his recently born brother Charles, who became King of France in 1560. [5] The title passed to Charles' brother, Henry, Duke of Angoulême, who six years later exchanged the appanages of Orléans for the Dukedom of Anjou, becoming the heir in pectore of the Crown. [6]
Charles Dolan, a titan of the early cable industry who owned Cablevision, launched HBO and AMC Network and later branched out into iconic New York venues and sports teams, has died. He was 98.