Charles, Prince of Viana
Charles of Viana ( * May 29, 1421; † September 23, 1461 ) was the son of John II of Aragon and Blanche of Navarre, daughter and heir of King Charles III ..
1423 Charles was appointed Prince of Viana. On September 30, 1439 he married in Olite Agnes of Cleves, daughter of Duke Adolf of Cleves and Mary of Burgundy, and thus a niece of Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy. Agnes died on April 6, 1448, the marriage remained childless.
Both his grandfather, Charles III. and his mother, Blanka, the Navarre from 1425 to 1441 ruled, had left the Kingdom of Karl, who had also been recognized by the Cortes as heir. As Blanka but died in 1441, John took over the government alone and joined Charles at the same time assume. The tension between Karl and his father grew up, as this is on April 1st, 1444 by Juana Enríquez married, by whom he had a son, the future King Ferdinand the Catholic: for Juana Karl was an obstacle.
As Juana Enríquez began to intervene in the internal affairs broke in 1451 a civil war in which the party of Beaumonteses to Karl and those of Agramonteses to Charlemagne's father Johann helped. Karl besieged Juana Enriquez in Estella, who rushed her husband to help. Despite the support of John II of Castile Charles was defeated in the fall of 1451 at the Battle of Aibar. He got into a nearly two-year imprisonment and was released only on the condition that he would not use the title of king before his father's death. 1455 Charles IV was defeated by Foix, the husband of Charles's sister Eleanor, by Count Gaston. He went to France, where he vainly seeking support for his cause, and eventually fled to Naples in 1455 to the court of his uncle Alfonso V of Aragon. When Alfonso died in 1458, was John King of Aragon and Karl received the crown of Naples and Sicily offered, but he refused. After Inaussichtstellung a reconciliation with his father in 1459 he returned to Spain.
Karl went to Barcelona on land and was acclaimed by the Catalans, who intended to revolt against Charlemagne's father John II. Then Karl asked the King Henry IV of Castile for the hand of his half- sister Isabella, but the Catholic was already destined by John II as a wife for his son Ferdinand. When Johann II therefore let Karl treacherously in jail in Lerida, in Catalonia there was an uprising that quickly spread so that Johann was forced to back down. He let Karl freely, recognized him as the heir of the kingdom and made him the permanent governor of Catalonia. A short time later, on September 23, 1461, Charles died in Barcelona. Rumors that he had been poisoned him order his stepmother came on, the Juana Enríquez forced to flee to Girona, where she went under the protection of the bishop.
Charles had no legitimate offspring, but had a number of illegitimate children, including
- Anna, † 1477; ∞ Luis de la Cerda, Duke of Medinaceli 1 1479, † 1501 (master list of the House of Burgundy - Ivrea )
- Philip, X 1488, Archbishop of Palermo
- Juan Alonso, 1526 †, Bishop of Huesca
Charles of Viana was a culturally interested nobleman in addition to his political ambitions. He translated Aristotle's Ethics into Spanish ( it will be released in 1509 in Zaragoza ) and wrote in 1452 while in custody a chronicle of the kings of Navarre, the Cronica de los reyes de Navarra.