Charles IV of France
1 bookCharles IV was king of France and Navarre from 1322 to 1328 and the last direct Capetian king of France. His death without a surviving son […]
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Charles the Bald
1 bookCharles the Bald was a grandson of Charlemagne who became king of West Francia after the division of the Carolingian Empire and was briefly crowned emperor […]
Charles XIV John of Sweden
1 bookCharles XIV John of Sweden was born Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte in southern France and rose through the Revolutionary army to become one of Napoleon’s marshals. In 1810 […]
Charlie Chaplin
1 bookCharlie Chaplin is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty and court politics and dynastic power. These works approach the figure […]
Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus
1 bookCharlotte was queen of Cyprus from 1458 and a member of the Lusignan dynasty. Her claim was challenged by her illegitimate half-brother James, who secured Mamluk […]
Christopher Gist
1 bookChristopher Gist was a colonial explorer, surveyor and frontier agent employed by the Ohio Company. He guided George Washington on the 1753–1754 mission to warn the […]
Chūichi Nagumo
1 bookChūichi Nagumo is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, crime, espionage and covert power, and exploration, travel and cultural encounter. […]
Claudia Octavia
1 bookClaudia Octavia was the daughter of Claudius and first wife of Nero. Her marriage linked Nero to the Julio-Claudian dynasty, but she was divorced, exiled and […]
Cochise
1 bookCochise was a leading chief of the Chiricahua Apache whose resistance shaped conflict in Arizona and New Mexico during the 1860s. The Bascom Affair of 1861, […]
Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure was a Crown factor on forfeited Highland estates who was shot and killed near Ballachulish on 14 May 1752. His assassination […]