# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-vii-of-france
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:59:29.720Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-vii-of-france"
name: "Charles VII of France"
slug: "charles-vii-of-france"
description: "He inherited a throne that barely existed — disinherited by his own father, mocked as the \"King of Bourges\" while England held Paris and most of his kingdom. Then a peasant girl claimed God sent her to save him, and somehow it worked."
tagline: "Monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KarlVII.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1403-02-22"
deathDate: "1461-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           25.56493733333334
  currentAttention:     14.03571428571429
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
  category: 198
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Charles VII became king in 1422 under conditions close to impossible: his father Charles VI had disinherited him, recognized Henry V of England as the rightful heir, and died leaving the capital, the coronation city of Reims, and most of northern France in enemy hands. A civil war between Armagnacs and Burgundians tore what remained. Confined to Bourges and the territory south of the Loire, he was dismissed as a pretender king until Joan of Arc arrived in 1429, lifted the siege of Orléans, and led him to Reims for a proper coronation. He broke the Anglo-Burgundian alliance with the Treaty of Arras in 1435, retook Paris in 1436, and spent the 1440s reconquering Normandy with a reorganized professional army and siege artillery. By the Battle of Castillon in 1453, he had driven England off the continent except for Calais, ending the Hundred Years' War. His final years soured in clashes with his son, the future Louis XI.