Charles v biography
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Charles the Fifth ()
Charles the Emperor
Charles of Habsburg was born in Ghent in He inherited:
- First, the Duchy of Burgundy, tillsammans with its possessions in Flanders at the death of his father in ,
- Then, the kingdoms of Castile, Aragon, Naples and Sicily at the death of his maternal grandfather Ferdinand V in ,
- And finally, the Archduchy of Austria in at the death of his paternal grandfather, the Holy långnovell Emperor Maximilian.
In , after a manipulation of the votes, he was elected as Charles the Fifth, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, in motstånd to his rival Francis I of France.
He then governed an immense territory which included the Spanish colonies in Mexico and South amerika, on which “the sun never sets.” In , he married his first cousin Isabella of Portugal and was crowned kejsare by the Pope in
Charles the Fifth and Luther
The powerful influence of the Reformation Movement was felt especially during Charles’ reign as Emperor.
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On his 30th birthday Charles was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement VII in Bologna. Less than three years earlier his troops had brutally sacked Rome and Clement had been forced to pay a ransom for his freedom. This is one of the many apparent contradictions in the life of Emperor Charles V (see the pages in 'Charles V'), who ruled much of Europe - the Low Countries, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, and much of Italy - for almost 40 years in the 16th century.
Born in he was a key figure in the time of the Renaissance and the Reformation (see the pages in 'Charles' World'), in the dynastic struggles between the Habsburgs and the Valois, in efforts to hold back Ottoman expansion from the east, and in the conquest of the Americas. This was a period of increasingly rapid political, social, economic, religious and scientific change – to the great excitement of some and to the horror of others. Charles met with those whose names resound through history - Luther, Erasmus, Henry V
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Charles V of France
King of France from to
Not to be confused with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
Charles V[a] (21 January – 16 September ), called the Wise (French: le Sage; Latin: Sapiens), was King of France from to his death in His reign marked an early high point for France during the Hundred Years' War as his armies recovered much of the territory held by the English and successfully reversed the military losses of his predecessors.
Charles became regent of France when his father John II was captured by the English at the Battle of Poitiers in To pay for the defense of the kingdom, Charles raised taxes. As a result, he faced hostility from the nobility, led by Charles the Bad, King of Navarre; the opposition of the French bourgeoisie, which was channeled through the Estates-General led by Étienne Marcel; and with a peasant revolt known as the Jacquerie. Charles overcame all of these rebellions, but in order to liberate his father, he had to conclude t