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The entrance gate to the Prinsenhof, Dutch for "Princes' Court", in Ghent, where Charles V was born. Charles of Austria was born on 24 February 1500 in the Prinsenhof of Ghent, a Flemish city of the Habsburg Netherlands, to Philip of Austria and Joanna of Trastámara. [33]
The feared Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa was the main target of Charles V. Barbarossa's Muslim Barbary corsairs, acting under the general authority and supervision of the Sultan, regularly devastated the Spanish and Italian coasts, crippling trade between Habsburg dominions. In Barcelona, Charles V assembled an Imperial fleet carrying ...
In addition to holding the Austrian hereditary lands, the Habsburg dynasty ruled the Low Countries (1482–1794), Spain (1504–1700) and the Holy Roman Empire (1438–1806). All these lands were in personal union under Emperor Charles V. The expansion of the Habsburgs into western Europe increasingly led to border tensions with the Kingdom of ...
Charles V divided the House in 1556 by ceding Austria along with the Imperial crown to Ferdinand (as decided at the Imperial election, 1531), and the Spanish Empire to his son Philip. The Spanish branch (which also held the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Portugal between 1580 and 1640, and the Mezzogiorno of Italy) became extinct in 1700.
Charles V, emperor 1519–1556, his arms are explained in an article about them; The abdications of Charles V in 1556 ended his formal authority over Ferdinand and made him suo jure ruler in Austria, Bohemia, Hungary, as well as Holy Roman Emperor. Ferdinand I, emperor 1556–1564 (→Family Tree) Maximilian II, emperor 1564–1576
The stench of the corpses was such that Charles V soon left Tunis and moved his camp to Radès. The siege demonstrated the power of the Habsburg dynasties at the time; Charles V had under his control much of southern Italy, Sicily, Spain, the Americas, Austria, the Netherlands, and lands in Germany.
Charles was the head of the Austrian House of Habsburg after the death of his grandfather Maximilian, but he was born in the Habsburg Netherlands, had grown up speaking French and Dutch, was in Spain at the time of the election, and had not yet been to Germany or learned German. Thus, there was a risk that he could be felt to be as much of a ...
Equestrian Portrait of Charles V by Titian.. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558), the first ruler of an empire where the sun never set, [1] has traditionally attracted considerable scholarly attention and also raises controversies among historians regarding his character, his rule and achievements (or failures) in the countries in his personal empire, as well as various social ...