sentences:  Born in Paris, he was the son of Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers and Princess Henriette of Cleves.In 1600, as duke of Rethel, he founded, in Nevers, the Order of the Yellow Ribbon, soon forbidden by the King, due to its peculiar character.In 1606, he decided the foundation of Charleville and the Principality of Arches ( ) He became 1st Prince of Arche and Charleville
  
  In 1612, Charles, a descendant of the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus through his grandmother Margaret, who was of the line of Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat, Andronicus' son, claimed the throne of Constantinople, at the time the capital of the Ottoman Empire.