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Charles, duc d'Orléans

Charles
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Duke of Orléans
Predecessor Louis I
Successor Louis II
Born (1394-11-24)24 November 1394
Paris, France
Died 5 January 1465(1465-01-05) (aged 70)
Amboise
Burial Saint Denis Basilica, France
Spouse Isabella of Valois
Bonne d'Armagnac
Marie of Cleves
Issue Joan, Duchess of Alençon
Marie, Viscountess of Narbonne
Louis XII of France
Anne, Abbess of Fontevraud
House Valois
Father Louis I, Duke of Orléans
Mother Valentina Visconti

Charles of Orléans (24 November 1394 – 5 January 1465) was Duke of Orléans from 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis I, Duke of Orléans, on the orders of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy. He was also Duke of Valois, Count of Beaumont-sur-Oise and of Blois, Lord of Coucy, and the inheritor of Asti in Italy via his mother Valentina Visconti, daughter of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan.

He is now remembered as an accomplished medieval poet owing to the more than five hundred extant poems he produced, written in both French and English, during his 25 years spent as a prisoner of war.

Charles was born in Paris. Acceding to the duchy at the age of thirteen after his father had been assassinated, he was expected to carry on his father's leadership against the Burgundians, a French faction which supported the Duke of Burgundy. The latter was never punished for his role in Louis' assassination, and Charles had to watch as his grief-stricken mother Valentina Visconti succumbed to illness not long afterwards. At her deathbed, Charles and the other boys of the family were made to swear the traditional oath of vengeance for their father's murder.

During the early years of his reign as duke, the orphaned Charles was heavily influenced by the guidance of his father-in-law, Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, for which reason Charles' faction came to be known as the "Armagnacs".


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