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TIL of Charles II of Navarre, or Charles "The Bad" - a continued schemer and manipulator throughout the Hundred Years War. Riddled with disease at the age of 54, he was encased in brandy soaked bandages. His incineration in a medical accident was widely considered at the time to be god's justice

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