Person:Charles IV of France (1)

Charles IV "the Fair" , King of France
b.18/19 Jun 1294 Clermont, Oise, France
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Name Charles IV "the Fair" , King of France
Gender Male
Birth[1] 18/19 Jun 1294 Clermont, Oise, France
Death[1] 1 Feb 1328 Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, France
Burial[1] 7 Feb 1328 Basilique Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Reference Number? 8XJH-74
Other? House of Capet

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Charles IV (Clermont 18/19 June 1294 – Vincennes 1 February 1328), called the Fair (French: le Bel) was Count of Champagne, King of Navarre (as Charles I) and the last "direct" Capetian King of France from 1322 to his death.

Charles was the third son of Philip IV; like his father, he was known as "the fair" or "the handsome". From 1323, Charles was confronted to a peasant revolt in Flanders and, in 1324, he unsuccessfully bid the elective German monarchy.


When Charles IV died without male heir, the senior lineage of the House of Capet ended; he was succeeded by his cousin Philip of Valois, but the contested legitimacy was one factor of the Hundred Years' War.

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