(1294–1328). King of France. Charles, the youngest son of Philip IV, acceded to the throne in 1322 after the death of his elder brother, Philip V, whose only children were daughters and so excluded from the throne. Early in his reign, Charles IV...

Charles IV (c.1294 – 1 February 1328), was the King of France and Navarre (as Charles I) and Count of Champagne from 1322 to his death: the last French king of the senior Capetian lineage. He was the third son of Philip IV. By virtue of his mother,...