 Charles was born in Évreux.Since his father was first cousin to King Philip VI of France, and his mother, Joan II of Navarre, was the only child of King Louis X, Charles of Navarre was 'born of the "fleur de lys" on both sides', as he liked to point out, but he succeeded to a shrunken inheritance as far as his French lands were concerned.Charles was raised in France during childhood and up to the moment he was declared king at 17, so he probably had no command of the Romance language of Navarre at the moment of his coronation.