Charles IV

noun

Charles the Fair, 1294–1328, king of France 1322–28.
Charles of Luxembourg, 1316–78, king of Germany 1347–78 and Bohemia 1346–78; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1355–78.
Charles I.
Charles III.

Charles IV

noun

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
1316–78, king of Bohemia (1346–78) and Holy Roman Emperor (1355–78)
1748–1819, king of Spain (1788–1808), whose reign saw the domination of Spain by Napoleonic France: abdicated
title as king of Hungary of Charles I See Charles I

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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.

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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.

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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.

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When Charles LoGiudice III, an electrician, can’t make it home in time for supper with his 2-year-old son, Charles IV, and his wife, Elaina, a stay-at-home mother, they FaceTime with him from the dinner table.

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Otherwise, in a survey of the general public, the likes of Vaclav Havel, Franz Kafka, Martina Navratilova and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV might not have stood a chance.

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