I roto i taua āhuatanga me te tikanga, ko Charles te patunga o te whawhai kaha i roto i te marae French i waenga i te tuakana o te Kingi, a Gaston d'Orléans, me te Kaarini Richelieu, ahakoa i te hangarau, ko Lorraine i raro i te Holy Roman Empire me te Emperor Ferdinand II o Austria. I akiakihia ia ki te tuku whakaiti ki a France, i whakarerea e ia i raro i te pehanga French me te whakaekenga i te tau 1634 mo tana tuakana, a Nicholas Francis, ka uru ki te ratonga rangatira i te Pakanga Toru tekau Tau, ka wikitoria i te Pakanga o Nördlingen
He aha? I muri tata mai, ka rere hoki a Nicholas Francis ki te whakarau, ka whakarere i ana kereme, i tangohia ano e Charles, i noho tonu hei Duke o Lorraine i te whakarau mo te hauwhā o te rau tau e whai ake nei.