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The latter territories mostly lay within the Holy Roman Empire and its borders, but were formally divided between fiefs of the Holy Roman Empire and French fiefs such as Charles's birthplace of Flanders, the last remnant of the Burgundian State, a powerful player in the Hundred Years' War. Since he was a minor, his aunt Margaret of Austria ...
The Reichsfahne (Imperial flag) was a field ensign of the Holy Roman Empire, originally an equestrian flag or gonfalon. An early bearer was Werner I, count of Winterthur , who carried the flag for Conrad II and Henry III and who died in the battle at Brůdek in 1040.
Charles was also Holy Roman Emperor and, as such, was suzerain of the states of the Holy Roman Empire. The empire was the first to be labelled as "the empire on which the sun never sets", a term used to describe several global empires throughout history. The lands of the empire had in common only the monarch, Charles V, while their boundaries ...
The Holy Roman Empire, [f] also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. [16] It developed in the Early Middle Ages , and lasted for most of the 2nd millennium until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars .
In 1516, Charles became the king of Spain, inheriting the kingdoms first united by his maternal grandparents, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (the Catholic Monarchs). Finally, on the death of his paternal grandfather in 1519, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor , he inherited the Habsburg lands in central Europe and was elected ...
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English: Banner of Charles V as Holy Roman Emperor (1519-1556). Español: Estandarte de Carlos V (Carlos I de España) como Sacro Emperador Romano (1519-1556). Date
Charles V may refer to: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) Charles V of Naples (1661–1700), better known as Charles II of Spain; Charles V of France (1338–1380), called the Wise; Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643–1690) Infante Carlos of Spain, Count of Molina (1788–1855), first Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain (as ...