King Charles VII of France
Other names for Charles were Charles le Victorieux, Charles the Victorious, Charles the Well-Served and Charles VII de Valois. General Notes: Charles VII (1403-61), called the Victorious, King of France, crowned in 1422, after the death of his father, Charles VI, in spite of the treaty of Troyes. Charles made little headway against the English till the advent in 1429, of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans. With their disastrous defeat at the siege of Castillon in 1453, the end of the Hundred Years’ War may be said to have come, and England retained Calais only of her French possessions. A great stain on Charles’s fame was his cowardly surrender of Joan of Arc to the English. See Du Fresne de Beaucourt’s Histoire de Charles VII. [World Wide Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1935] Noted events in his life were: • Title: King of France, 1422-1461. 773 Charles married Marie of Anjou, daughter of King Louis II of Naples and Yolande of Aragon, Baroness of Lunel, on 2 Jun 1422 in Bourges, Centre, France 713.,773 (Marie of Anjou was born on 14 Oct 1404,713,773 died on 29 Nov 1463 in Abbaye de Chateliers-en-Poitou 713,773 and was buried in 1463 in St. Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France 713.) Charles also had a relationship with Agnes Sorel. (Agnes Sorel died in 1450 713.) |