Person:Charles VIII of France (1)

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Charles VIII , of France
b.30 Jun 1470
d.7 Apr 1498
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  1. Anne of France - 1522
  2. Joan of France, Duchess of Berry - 1505
  3. Charles VIII , of France
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Name Charles VIII , of France
Gender Male
Birth[1] 30 Jun 1470
Death[1] 7 Apr 1498
Other? House of Valois


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Charles VIII, called the Affable, (30 June 1470 – 7 April 1498), was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1483 to his death in 1498. He succeeded his father Louis XI at the age of 13. His elder sister Anne of France acted as regent until 1491 jointly with her husband Peter II, Duke of Bourbon. During Anne's regency, the great feudal lords rebelled against royal centralisation efforts in a conflict known as the Mad War (1485-1488), which resulted in a victory for the royal government.

In a remarkable stroke of audacity, Charles married Anne of Brittany in 1491 after she had already been married by proxy to the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in a ceremony of questionable validity. Occupied elsewhere, Maximilian failed to press his claim. Upon his marriage, Charles became Duke of Brittany and created a Union of Brittany and France that enabled France to avoid total encirclement by Habsburg territories.

To secure his rights to the Neapolitan throne that René of Naples had left to his father, Charles made a series of concessions to neighbouring monarchs and conquered the Italian peninsula without much opposition. The coalition formed against the French invasion of 1494-98 finally drove out Charles' army, but Italian Wars would dominate Western European politics for over 50 years.

Charles accidentally died in 1498 during a match of Jeu de paume. Since he had no male heir, he was succeeded by his cousin Louis XII of France from the Orléans cadet branch of the House of Valois.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charles VIII of France, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. (Online: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.).
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