In 1547, Holy Roman Emperor ... deteriorated, Charles V abdicated as emperor in favor of his brother Ferdinand in 1556, although it was not legally recognized until February 1558.

V, who was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in ... written after the death of Henry VIII and the rebellion of a Protestant group called the Schmalkalden Alliance in Germany. Charles V, who was ...

In late 1555 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and head of the house ... Co-ruler of Spain with his mother, he was also Holy Roman Emperor: Maximilian had, before his death, wangled his grandson’s ...

Researchers in France have finally cracked a complex code of mysterious symbols and "nonsense" decoys written by Charles V, the former Holy Roman Emperor ... after the death of England's King ...

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V used an ingenious code to keep his messages ... rising tension between France and Spain. Following the death of British monarch Henry VIII, a key ally, Charles wanted ...

In 1611, Spanish scholar Sebastián de Covarrubias, reflecting on the reign of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ... to reform Roman Catholicism. At his death, his aide Luis Quijada wrote that ...

A team of researchers has cracked the secret code used by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, in a letter that has puzzled historians for nearly 500 years. Charles was one of the ...

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was known to have had attacks of gout from early adulthood. This study provides objective confirmation of the clinical diagnosis on the basis of an examination of the ...