Charles de la Cerda

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.
Article so far completely unoccupied. Was translated from French Wikipedia, but the article there does not contain any evidence. Please verify and substantiate with literature.

Charles de la Cerda or Charles d'Espagne dit de la Cerda (* 1326 - † January 8, 1354 in L'Aigle ) was a Connétable of France and Count of Angoulême .

He was a son of Alphonse de la Cerda (* 1271, † 1327) and Isabelle d'Antoing († 1364). His paternal great-grandfather was the Castilian Infante Ferdinand de la Cerda , whose wife Blanche was a daughter of King Louis IX. the saint was. Charles' older brother was Louis de la Cerda . In 1325 he married Margaret of Blois, daughter of Charles of Blois , Duke of Brittany .

Coat of arms of Prince Charles de la Cerda.

As a descendant of the rulers of Castile , he was brought up in France, together with the later King John II the Good , whose childhood friend he was and later became a favorite .

In the defeat on August 29, 1350 against the English King Edward III. in the naval battle of L'Espagnols-sur-Mer (also called the naval battle of Winchelsea ) he was the commander on the Castilian side.

A few days earlier, the French King Philip VI. died and had Johann II ascended the throne. Charles de la Cerda had come a little closer to his goal of receiving the title of Connétable of France. When the incumbent, Raoul II. De Brienne , was arrested on November 18, 1350 and executed without trial the next day, the main obstacle to his career was removed. In fact, Charles de la Cerda was appointed Connétable the following year - as well as Count of Angoulême . This appointment meant that de la Cerda got a powerful opponent in Charles the Evil , King of Navarre , since Charles claimed the county of Angoulême as heir to his mother, who had died two years earlier, and now saw himself passed over, just as he already did felt set aside at the succession to the throne in France.

King John II tried to appease Karl by marrying his daughter (1353) - without success: On January 8, 1354, Karl left the Connétable in the restaurant "Truie-qui-File" in L'Aigle by one of his men, Jean le Soult (called Le Bascon), murder.

predecessor Office successor
Raoul II de Brienne Connétable of France
1350–1354 		Jacques I. de Bourbon
Philippe d'Évreux Count of Angoulême
1350-1354 		Louis de Valois
personal data
SURNAME Charles de la Cerda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Charles d'Espagne dit de la Cerda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French count
DATE OF BIRTH 1326
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1354
Place of death L'Aigle