All died childless, leaving Charles with a rich inheritance of titles. Charles consistently refused him. 1293, d. 22 Aug 1350 Jeanne de Valois+5 b. c 1294, d. 1342 Marguerite de Valois b. Joan identified Charles immediately. He was born at the Château de Fayet in Dauphiné in 1573. Under the pressure of sickness and fever, he went mad. She was aided by skilled commanders such as Étienne de Vignolles, known as Joan was later captured by Burgundian troops under John of Luxembourg at the Nearly as important as Joan of Arc in the cause of Charles was the support of the powerful and wealthy family of his wife Marie d'Anjou, particularly his mother-in-law, Queen Charles VII and Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, then signed the 1435 Over the following two decades, the French recaptured Paris from the English and eventually recovered all of France with the exception of the northern port of Charles' later years were marked by hostile relations with his heir, Louis, who demanded real power to accompany his position as the Dauphin. His father, dying in the following year, commended him to the care and favour of his younger brother and successor, Henry III, who faithfully fulfilled the charge. Millerand held the presidency in an acting capacity before being fully elected.

At one point after becoming Dauphin, he led an army against the English dressed in the red, white, and blue that represented his family;Political conditions in France took a decisive turn in the year 1429 just as the prospects for the Dauphin began to look hopeless. When Joan appeared at Chinon, Charles wanted to test her claim to be able to recognise him despite never having seen him, and so he disguised himself as one of his courtiers. He was the eleventh child and fifth son of Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria. For the third son of King Francis I of France, see

Despite attempts to claim that another man was in fact the king, Charles was eventually forced to admit that he was indeed such. She was a niece of Charles V through her father and would receive Milan as her dowry. Ill and weary, the king became delirious, convinced that he was surrounded by traitors loyal only to his son. The Peace of Crépy deeply offended Charles' elder brother the Dauphin Henry and his wife, Catherine de' Medici. Acting heads of state are denoted by an asterisk. Thereafter Joan referred to him as "Dauphin" or "Noble Dauphin" until he was crowned in Reims four months later. Child of Charles I de France, Comte de Valois and Katherina de Courtenay, Markgravine de Namur.

After a private conversation between the two (Charles later stated that Joan knew secrets about him that he had voiced only in silent prayer to God), Charles became inspired and filled with confidence. The town of What followed would become famous. She had no children and survived her husband until 1713.This article is about Charles, duc d'Angoulême. He stood in their midst when Joan entered the chamber in which the court was assembled. By now another infection in his jaw had caused an abscess in his mouth. Charles II de Valois, Comte d'Alençon2 d. 1346 Philippe VI, Roi de France+4 b. Born at the Hôtel Saint-Pol, the royal residence in Paris, Charles was given the title of comte de Ponthieu at his birth in 1403. As the groom's father, Francis I was expected by the Treaty to endow his son with Angoulême, Châtellerault, Bourbon and Orléans. Jeanne de Valois b. bt 1301 - 1308. The last years of Charles VII were marked by conflicts with his turbulent son, the future Almost immediately after his accession to the title of Dauphin, Charles had to face threats to his inheritance, and he was forced to flee from Paris on 29 May 1418 after the partisans of In his adolescent years, Charles was noted for his bravery and flamboyant style of leadership.