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Charles was born at Nancy, the capital of Lorraine. He was the second son of Duke Charles III and Claude de France, daughter of King Henry II. He studied at the University of Pont-à-Mousson, which his father had founded, and at the University of Trier before moving to the Sorbonne in Paris. Charles was marked out for a career in the church.
The Palace of Charles of Lorraine (French: Palais de Charles de Lorraine; Dutch: Paleis van Karel van Lotharingen) is a neoclassical palace in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium. Its construction started in 1757 to serve as the residence of the Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands , Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine , replacing the Palace of Orange-Nassau .
Charles IV (or V) Leopold (born April 5, 1643, Vienna, Austria—died April 18, 1690, Wels) was the duke of Lorraine and Bar, Austrian field marshal who commanded the forces defeating the Turks before the gates of Vienna in 1683 and subsequently expelled them from most of Hungary.
Charles II (or III) was the duke of Lorraine from 1545, whose reign is noted for its progress and prosperity. Charles was the son of Francis I of Lorraine and Christina of Denmark. On his father’s death in 1545, his mother became regent for him, and in 1552 Charles was taken to Paris by Henry II of
Biography Son of François II de Lorraine. Duke of Lorraine from 1625 to 1634, then was pressured by the French invasion of Lorraine into abdicating in favour of his brother Nicolas François, after which he fought for the Imperial army; he was eventually reinstated (treaty of Vincennes, 1661) but would fight the French until his death.
Charles de Lorraine was a popular Governor-General of the Austrian Netherlands long before Belgium existed as a state (1744 -1780). What remains of his palace in Brussels has been carefully restored and recently reopened to the public.
Charles of Lorraine’s was the governor of the Austrian Netherlands from 1744 to 1780, an intellectual, curious about science, and a connoisseur of Diderot and d’Alembert’s encyclopedia. He was interested in occultism, an art lover, and a passionate collector. Open each first Saturday of the month, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
