Charles dorleans biography
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Charles, Duke of Orléans
French nobleman (1394–1465)
For other people named Charles d'Orléans, see Charles d'Orléans (disambiguation).
Charles of Orléans (24 November 1394 – 5 January 1465) was Duke of Orléans from 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis I, Duke of Orléans. He was also Duke of Valois, Count of Beaumont-sur-Oise and of Blois, Lord of Coucy, and the inheritor of Asti in Italy via his mother Valentina Visconti.
He is now remembered as an accomplished medieval poet, owing to the more than fem hundred extant poems he produced, written in both French and English, during his 25 years spent as a prisoner of war and after his return to France.
Accession
[edit]Charles was born in Paris, the son of Louis I, Duke of Orléans and Valentina Visconti, daughter of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan. He acceded to the hertigdöme at the age of thirteen after his father had been assassinated on the orders of John the orädd, Duke of Burgundy. Charles was expect
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Charles d'Orléans, Duke of Penthièvre
French prince; fourth son of Louis Philippe I
Charles d'Orléans, Duke of Penthièvre (Charles Ferdinand Louis Philippe Emmanuel; 1 January 1820 – 25 July 1828) was the eighth child of the Duke and Duchess of Orléans, future Louis Philippe I and la Reine Marie Amélie. He was created Duke of Penthièvre, a title previously held by his great-grandfather.
Biography
[edit]Charles d'Orléans was born at the Palais Royal in Paris, the official city residence of the Orléans family since 1692.[1] Inside his family, he was nicknamed Pimpin.[2]
He was the fourth of six sons born to the Orléans; Ferdinand Philippe born in 1810; the Duke of Nemours born in 1814; the Prince of Joinville born in 1818 who was followed by Charles. His younger brothers were the Duke of Aumale and the Duke of Montpensier. His oldest sister Princess Louise married Leopold I of Belgium. Another sister Princess Clémentine was the mother of Ferdinand I
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Charles d’Orléans is one of the most fascinating figures of the fifteenth century. A fabulously charming member of the French royal family, captured at the battle of Agincourt and held as a prisoner in England for 25 years, he was most importantly an accomplished poet in English as well as in French. At a crucial turning point in the English work, Charles d’Orléans’ long English poem, Fortunes Stabilnes, the poet-narrator falls asleep on a cliff overlooking the sea. Defending the importance of dreams, the poet assures us that they are able “to the body signyfy” what will later befall a person (line 4750). As an introduction to this new collection of essays Mary-Jo Arn and I have edited about Charles’s English work, I would like to dwell for a moment on this felicitous phrase, “to the body signyfy.”
That dreams “to the body signyfy” means, most obviously, the way that dreams talk to a person, that they tell us about our world and even, if read aright, might be able to tell us abou