Charles III., king of Spain, vii. 126, 131; emperor (Charles VI.) 142, 199, 200, 220
Charles IV., king of France, ii. 197, 198, 208
Charles (V.) of France, duke of Normandy, ii. 264, 265; king, 281, 282, 285, 288
Charles VI., king of France, iii. 5, 26, 35, 39
Charles (VII.), Dauphin, iii. 26, 39, 46, 48; crowned, 52; received in Paris, 56; Le Mans surrendered to, 62; regains Normandy, _ib._; conquers Guienne, 68, 69
Charles VIII., king of France, iii. 170; annexes Britanny, 179, 180; treaty with Henry VIII., 180; invades Italy, 186, 206
Charles IX., king of France, iv. 188, 298, 299, 301
Charles the Bad, king of Navarre, ii. 258, 259
Charles XII., king of Sweden, vii. 183, 188, 189
Charles the Bald, king of the West Franks, i. 209.
Charles the Simple, king of the West Franks, i. 155
Charles the Bold, Count of Charolais, iii. 122, 125, 127, 128; duke of Burgundy, 130; league with Edward, _ib._; marries Margaret of York, 131; negotiates with the Lancastrians, 140; helps Edward, 141; attacks Lewis again, 145; his German possessions, 146; alliance with the emperor, _ib._, 147; with England, 148; besieges Neuss, _ib._, 149; slain, 150
Charter of Henry I., i. 198, 340, 341; of Stephen, 216; the Great, 348-352; provisions for its execution, 353; annulled by the Pope, 354; reissued under Henry III., ii. 1, 3; Langton's care for, 6; confirmed by Henry, _ib._, 34; Archbishop Peckham's appeal to, 118; confirmed by Edward I., 165, 166, 170; of the Forest, 165, 166, 170
Charter-house, the, in London, ii. 253; its martyrs, iii. 320; v. 77
Chatham, William Pitt, first earl of (_see_ Pitt), vii. 340, 341; withdraws from public life, viii. 3; from the ministry, 6; proposes reform of the House of Commons, 9; strives to avert war with America, 20, 26; recalled to office, 29; death, 30
Chaucer, Geoffrey, his early life, ii. 358, 359; early poems, 359-361; offices, person, temper, 362, 363; home at Westminster, 366; _Canterbury Tales_, 361, 363-366; Caxton's edition of, iii. 157
Cherbourg, Henry of Lancaster at, ii. 259, 260; held by England, 316; surrendered to Navarre, 368; to Charles VII., iii. 62
Chester, march of the West Saxons on, i. 38, 56; conquered by Æthelfrith, 60, 61; by William, 169; raid of Llewelyn ap Gruffydd on, ii. 85; blockade of, vi. 38