Charles

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

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

3. 3

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

4. 4

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

5. 5

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

6. 6

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

7. 7

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

8. 8

   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)

9. 9

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