He was chamberlain and minister to King Philippe IV le Bel. In 1306, he was sent to preside over the finances of Normandy. He received many gifts and money from Philip the Fair but also a pension from Edward II of England. During the reign of Louis X, known as Le Hutin, he was accused of various embezzlements, alteration of currencies, ransacking of royal forests, embezzlement of funds from the Church, and even witchcraft. He was condemned in a questionable trial and hanged on the gallows at Montfaucon in 1315. His body, or what was left of it, remained on display on the gallows for two years, until a new trial which exonerated him in 1317 and allowed his burial in the collegiate church of Écouens.
Born around April 2, 742, for Easter, probably in Quierzy, Charles was the eldest son of Pépin le Bref, king of the Franks. When his father dies, he must share the empire he inherits with his brother Carloman. He was anointed, along with his younger brother, by Pope Stephen II in 754. Following the