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Charles II

noun

  1. Charles the Fat, a.d. 809–888, king of France 884–887; as Charles III, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 881–887.
  2. 1630–85, king of Great Britain 1660–85 (son of Charles I of England).
  3. 1661–1700, king of Spain 1665–1700.


Charles II

noun

  1. Charles II823877MFrenchPOLITICS: hereditary ruler known as Charles the Bald. 823–877 ad , Holy Roman Emperor (875–877) and, as Charles I, king of France (843–877)
  2. the title as king of France of Charles III (Holy Roman Emperor) See Charles III
  3. Charles II16301685MBritishPOLITICS: hereditary ruler 1630–85, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1660–85) following the Restoration (1660); son of Charles I. He did much to promote commerce, science, and the Navy, but his Roman Catholic sympathies caused widespread distrust
  4. Charles II16611700MSpanishPOLITICS: hereditary ruler 1661–1700, the last Hapsburg king of Spain: his reign saw the end of Spanish power in Europe
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He was interred at Westminster Abbey after his death in 1658, but two years later King Charles II vowed retribution for his father's execution and displayed Cromwell's severed head in public.

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Ecce Homo is believed to have belonged to the private collection of Spain's King Philip IV, before being exhibited in the apartments of his son, Charles II.

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Charles II used them to find details "to add lustre and splendour to the solemnity" of his crowning in 1661.

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In the 17th century, King Charles II was told of the prophecy and decreed that there must always be six ravens at the tower.

Penn arrived in present-day Philadelphia in 1682 after being granted the charter for a huge swath of land by King Charles II, land that the English had wrested from Dutch colonialists, historians say.

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