Following the death of his father, Charles VI, Charles VII was kept from the throne by the Treaty of Troyes -- an agreement between his father, Henry V of England and Philip the Good of Burgundy that was intended to settle the issues of the Hundred Years War -- although he assumed the royal title and waged perfunctory wars against the English. Following the defeat of a number of English troops by Joan of Arc and her armies, Charles was crowned at Reims in 1429.
