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Topic: Boeotian War, or Theban-Spartan War of 379-371 BCE

Charles of Luxembourg succeeds to the Bohemian …

Years: 1346 - 1346

Charles of Luxembourg succeeds to the Bohemian throne, following the death of his father John of Luxembourg in the Battle of Crécy.

He is elected as King of the Romans, on July 11, 1346.

Rejecting the ebullient chivalry of his father, the Paris-educated thirty-year-old monarch rules with practical realism and sound political sense.