Charles VII raised taxes to support his army and went after the Count Jean V of Armagnac, who had three children by his sister Isabella and was excommunicated by Pope Nicholas V. In June 1455 the King sent Jean of Bourbon to punish Jean V by taking seventeen of his castles and driving him across the Pyrenees. He sent Dunois to arrest the Duke of Alençon, who implicated Prince Louis. The Dauphin had prohibited private warfare in Dauphiné and had made a secret alliance with the Duke of Savoy in 1449, marrying Charlotte of Savoy on March 9, 1451 in spite of his father’s prohibition. Charles reacted by forming an alliance with Louis of Savoy in a treaty at Clappé on October 27, 1452. Louis then devastated the district of Bugey, and he created a Parlement at Grenoble in 1453. The next year the King accepted the Parlements of Toulouse, Grenoble, and Bordeaux. Learning that Charles was advancing in Lyons in 1456 and that his occupying army was led by his enemy, Count Antoine de Chabannes of Dammartin, Louis left Dauphiné on August 30 and fled to Burgundy’s court at Brussels. Charles took over the government of Dauphiné, annexing it in 1457. Louis informed his father he was joining Burgundy’s crusade against the Muslims. When Louis took the side of Philippe’s son, he alienated the Duke of Burgundy. Yet Louis lived near Brussels on the 2,500 livres per month that Philippe granted him.
By 1458 Charles VII had a cancerous leg wound and tuberculosis. When a captain told him that his doctor Adam Fumée had been persuaded to poison him, he put him in prison. The other royal physicians fled, and suspicious Charles refrained from eating. When he finally tried to eat, dental inflammation prevented him; he died on July 22, 1461. Though a weak personality, after being encouraged by Jeanne d’Arc, Charles became the “Well-Served” king who revived France and was called “Victorious” for defeating the English occupiers. He was the first French king to make good use of a royal council.
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