Charles the Simple
Charles III "the Simple" (September 17, 879 - October 7, 929) was a member of the Carolingian dynasty. He ruled as King of France from 898 to 922.The posthumous son of King Louis II of France and Adelaide, Charles married Eadgifu, the daughter of King Edward I of England, on October 7, 919.
As a child, Charles was prevented from succeeding to the throne at the time of the death in 884 of his half-brother Carloman or at the time Charles the Fat was deposed in 887 after he had succeeded Carloman. Instead, Odo, Count of Paris, succeeded Charles the Fat. Nonetheless, Charles became king at the death of Odo in 898.
The kingdom of Charles the Simple was almost identical with today’s France, but he was obliged to concede what would become known as Normandy to the invading Norsemen.
In 922 some of the barons revolted and crowned Robert I, brother of Odo, king. In 923, at the battle of Soissons, King Robert was killed, but Charles was also defeated. Duke Rudolph of Burgundy was elected king, and Charles III was imprisoned.
Charles III died on October 7, 929, in prison at Peronne[?], Somme, France. He was succeeded by his son Louis IV.
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Preceded by: Odo | List of French monarchs |
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messengers had been successively despatched to take their lives, as they
towards the execution of the orders.
This information did not chill the ardour of their victorious countrymen.
themselves overboard, out of the St. Augustine, or any of the burning or
them in boats, shooting, stabbing, and drowning their victims by
there, seemed sown with corpses. Probably two or three thousand were
Heemskerk lived, it is possible that he might have stopped the massacre.
news should arrive of his death--thus turning the joy of the great
Moreover, in ransacking the Spanish admiral's ship, all his papers had
"the King;" ordering most inhuman persecutions, not only of the
ashore. Recent examples of the thorough manner in which the royal
the hangings, burnings, and drownings of Fazardo. But the barbarous
the comrades of Alva.
The fleet of Avila was entirely destroyed. The hulk of the St.
set on fire by a few Spaniards who had concealed themselves on board,
vessels remained all the next day on the scene of their triumph. The
struck into the interior. Had Heemskerk survived he would doubtless have
consternation along the whole coast.
But his gallant spirit no longer directed the fleet. Bent rather upon
the Azores, the Canaries, or along the Portuguese coast; having first
Bey.
The Hollanders lost no ships, and but one hundred seamen were killed.
sailors, the other with the embalmed body of the fallen Heemskerk. The
expense--the first instance in the history of the republic--and his name
548. Grotius, xvi. 731-738. Wagenaar, ix. 251-258.]
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