Throughout his reign, Emperor Charles V fought to keep his empire together ... Charles owed his destiny to his grandfather, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. A member of the House of Habsburg ...

Researchers in France have finally cracked a complex code of mysterious symbols and "nonsense" decoys written by Charles V, the former Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. When you purchase ...

In 1547, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V penned a letter to his ambassador, Jean de Saint-Mauris, part of which was written in the ruler's secret code. Nearly five centuries later, researchers have ...

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V used an ingenious code to keep his messages secret (Credit: AFP / Jean-Christophe Verhaegen) A team of French researchers have cracked a secret code used by Holy Roman ...

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 ...

In late 1555 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and head of the house of Habsburg, returned to the Low Countries, where he was born: there, he began the long, slow process by which he abdicated in favour ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1611, Spanish scholar Sebastián de Covarrubias, reflecting on the reign of Charles V, Holy Roman ...