King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574).

synonym: Charles IX.

King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461).

synonym: Charles VII.

As Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877).

synonyms: Charles I, Charles II, Charles the Bald.

King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685).

synonym: Charles II.

Son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649).

synonyms: Charles I, Charles Stuart.

The eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948).

synonym: Prince Charles.

French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823).

synonyms: Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, Jacques Charles.

King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814).

synonyms: Carolus, Charlemagne, Charles I, Charles the Great.

Dutch: Karel de Grote

A river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston.

synonym: Charles River.