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Noun: Charles  chaa(r)lz
  1. Son of Elizabeth II, King of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth realms from 2022 (born in 1948)
    - Charles III, Charles Windsor, King Charles III, King Charles
     
  2. King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)
    - Charles IX of France, Charles IX
     
  3. King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
    - Charlemagne, Carolus, Charles I, Charles the Great
     
  4. A river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston
    - Charles River
     
  5. King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461)
    - Charles VII of France, Charles VII
     
  6. French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)
    - Jacques Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles
     
  7. Son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649)
    - Charles I of England, Charles I, Charles Stuart
     
  8. King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685)
    - Charles II of England, Charles II
     
  9. As Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877)
    - Charles II, Charles I, Charles the Bald

Type of: Carlovingian, Carolingian, Holy Roman Emperor, King of England, King of France, King of Great Britain, physicist, river

Part of: Bay State, MA, Mass., Massachusetts, Old Colony

Encyclopedia: Charles, Lord of the Isles