General Notes

Charles IV (of France) (1294-1328), king of France (1322-28) and, as Charles
I, king of Navarre (1322-28). Called Charles the Fair, he was the third son of
Philip IV, king of France. In 1327 Charles helped his sister Isabella to
dethrone her husband, King Edward II of England. During his reign Charles
increased taxation, exacted burdensome duties, debased the coinage, and
confiscated estates. He died without a male heir, thus ending the direct line
of the Capetian dynasty.