Charles V of France dies
September 1380
The bookish king who had patiently rebuilt French royal power and reclaimed most of Aquitaine died at forty-two, worn down by a mysterious wasting illness. His son Charles VI was twelve. Within twelve years the new king would have his first attack of madness. The recovery his father engineered would unravel before the century ended.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.