Charles, Count of Valois

Charles of Valois (1270–1325), fourth son of Philip III and Isabella of Aragon, founded the House of Valois. The 1285 Aragonese Crusade gave him a short-lived paper crown as king of Aragon. He became count of Anjou and Maine by his 1290 marriage to Margaret of Anjou.

He led a papal army into Italy in 1301–1302 and claimed the Latin Empire through Catherine of Courtenay. His Sicilian campaign ended in the Peace of Caltabellotta in 1302. In 1324 he overran Guyenne against Edward II. He died in 1325, three years before his son Philip VI took the French throne.