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Charles was born in Denmark, only son of the three children of King Canute IV (Saint Canute) and Adela of Flanders. [3] His father was assassinated in Odense Cathedral in 1086, [4] and Adela fled back to Flanders, taking the very young Charles with her but leaving her twin daughters Ingeborg and Cecilia in Denmark.
English: Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, providing a sumptuous feast for his guest, Louis, Dauphin of France. King Charles VII of France, on learning of it, and knowing the character of his son as being both fertile in cunning and ungrateful in his heart, says "My cousin of Burgundy feeds a fox who will eat his chickens".
Part of a series of four portraits of the Dukes of Burgundy, the painting depicts Charles the Bold with a chaperon and velvet clothing, which was the clothing of a grand master of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The series was intended to be exhibited in pairs.
His feast day in the Anglican calendar of saints is 30 January, [1] the anniversary of his execution in 1649. The cult of Charles the Martyr was historically popular with Tories . The observance was one of several "state services" removed in 1859 from the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England and the Church of Ireland .
Promotion of a wider and better observance of the feast day of St Charles, 30 January. Work for the reinstatement of the Feast of St Charles in the calendar of The Prayer Book from which it was removed in 1859 without the due consent of the Church as expressed in Convocation; the Feast was restored to the calendar in the Alternative Service ...
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Charles III of Savoy (10 October 1486 – 17 August 1553), often called Charles the Good, was Duke of Savoy from 1504 to 1553, although most of his lands were ruled by the French between 1536 and his death. Ruling for nearly 49 years, he is the third longest reigning Savoyard monarch, behind Charles Emmanuel I and Victor Amadeus II.
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