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Charles IV

American  

noun

  1. Charles the Fair, 1294–1328, king of France 1322–28.

  2. Charles of Luxembourg, 1316–78, king of Germany 1347–78 and Bohemia 1346–78; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1355–78.

  3. Charles I.

  4. Charles III.


Charles IV British  

noun

  1. known as Charles the Fair . 1294–1328, king of France (1322–28): brother of Isabella of France, with whom he intrigued against her husband, Edward II of England

  2. 1316–78, king of Bohemia (1346–78) and Holy Roman Emperor (1355–78)

  3. 1748–1819, king of Spain (1788–1808), whose reign saw the domination of Spain by Napoleonic France: abdicated

  4. title as king of Hungary of Charles I See Charles I

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He died in 1347, weeks after Charles IV was crowned king.

From The Wall Street Journal

Alternatively, it has been suggested that the panels were originally installed side by side in the cathedral of St. Vitus, Prague, perhaps for Charles IV’s coronation.

From The Wall Street Journal

Charles Wilson III, 61, had vowed to be a great dad to his youngest boy, Charles V. He had lost Charles IV as an infant, and he could not bear the idea of seeing another son suffer.

From Washington Post

In 1803, a scant seven years after Jenner’s experiment, King Charles IV of Spain sponsored the “Royal Philanthropic Expedition of the Vaccine” to ensure the treatment was delivered across his empire, and put the effort under the direction of one of his physicians, Francisco Balmis.

From Slate

The Prado’s large collection of Goya’s portraits — including one of King Charles IV and his family that features his already devious-looking son Fernando — remind me that the artist’s canny ability to reveal a subject’s hapless or sinister character speaks across the centuries.

From New York Times