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CHARLES VIII

Charles VIII was king of France. He was born in 1470 and died in 1498. He succeeded his father, Louis XI in 1483. In 1491 he married Anne, the heiress of Brittany, and thereby annexed that important duchy to the French crown. The chief event in the reign of Charles VIII is his expedition into Italy, and rapid conquest of the kingdom of Naples, a conquest as rapidly lost when a few months later Gonsalvo de Cordova re-annexed it to Spain. Charles VIII was meditating a renewed descent into Italy when he died in 1498.
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