# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-vi-of-france
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:59:28.619Z

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name: "Charles VI of France"
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description: "A king who believed he was made of glass and might shatter. Charles VI's recurring psychotic episodes — including attacking his own knights in a forest — turned the French throne into a prize fought over by relatives while England closed in."
tagline: "King of France from 1380 to 1422 (1368–1422)"
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birthDate: "1368-12-03"
deathDate: "1422-10-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           26.62512
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Charles VI became king at eleven in 1380, inheriting a France largely reclaimed from English control. He threw off his uncles' regency at twenty, but in 1392, leading troops toward Brittany, he suffered his first episode of delirium and turned on his own men in the forest of Le Mans. After nearly burning to death at the Bal des Ardents in January 1393, he was placed back under regency, cycling between lucidity and madness for the rest of his life. His uncles, his wife Isabeau, and his brother Louis of Orléans jockeyed for control; the feud between Orléans and Burgundy ignited a civil war that tore France apart. In 1415 his army was crushed at Agincourt. The Treaty of Troyes followed: Charles disinherited his own son in favor of Henry V of England, who married Charles's daughter and was named regent and heir. Henry died two months before Charles in 1422, and though the infant Henry VI inherited the throne by law, Charles's son was crowned at Reims in 1429 — the beginning of the Valois fight that would end the Hundred Years' War.