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Charles, Prince of Viana, (
May 29 1421 –
September 23 1461), sometimes called Charles IV, king of
Navarre, was the son of
John, afterwards king of Aragon, by his marriage with
Blanche, daughter and heiress of
Charles III, King of Navarre. Both his grandfather Charles and his mother, who ruled over Navarre from
1425 to
1441, had bequeathed this kingdom to Charles, whose right had also been recognized by the Cortes; but when Blanche died in 1441 her husband John seized the government to the exclusion of his son. The Prince of Viane was married in Olite (Navarre) on September 30 1439, taking as his wife the Flemish Princess Agnes, the daughter of
Adolph I, Duke of Cleves and Mary of Burgundy sister of
Philip III "the Good", Duke of Burgundy. Princess Agnes died, childless, on
April 6 1448, eight years after her marriage to Charles.
The ill-feeling between father and son was increased when in
1447 John took for his second wife Joanna (Juana) Enriquez, a
Castilian noblewoman (of a bastard
cadet line from Castilian kings), who soon bore him a son, afterwards
Ferdinand V, king of Spain, and who regarded her stepson as an interloper. When Joanna began to interfere in the internal affairs of Navarre, civil war broke out, and in
1452 Charles, although aided by
John II, King of Castile, was defeated and taken prisoner. Released upon promising not to take the kingly title until after his father's death, the prince, again unsuccessful in an appeal to arms, took refuge in
Naples with
Alphonso V, king of Aragon, Naples and Sicily. In
1458 Alphonso died and John became king of Aragon, while Charles was offered the crowns of Naples and Sicily. He declined these proposals, and having been reconciled with his father returned to Navarre in
1459. Aspiring to marry a Castilian princess, he was then thrown into prison by his father, and the Catalans rose in his favor. This insurrection soon became general and John was obliged to yield. He released his son, and recognized him as perpetual governor of
Catalonia, and heir to the kingdom.
Soon afterwards, however, on
23 September 1461, the prince died at
Barcelona, not without a suspicion that he'd been poisoned by his stepmother. He was promised to marry
Catherine of Portugal (daughter of
Portuguese King Edward I) when he died.
Charles was a cultured and amiable prince, fond of music and literature. He translated Aristotle's
Ethics into Spanish, a work first published at
Saragossa in
1509, and wrote a chronicle of the kings of Navarre,
Cronica de los reyes de Navarra.
By Brianda Vaca, he'd an illegitimate son,
Philip, who became
Archbishop of Palermo. He also had several other illegitimate children.
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