Charles in chargeA bronze likeness of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, created in 1555. Under Charles V (who was also Charles I of Spain), Pizarro began to forge an empire for Spain in the Americas.

We explore Bohemia’s role within the Holy Roman Empire—from its rise under the Přemyslid dynasty to the cultural golden age of Charles IV. But with Wenceslas IV’s troubled rule came noble ...

Papal conclaves have featured calls of election fraud and bribery so gauche that riches were wheeled in on donkey carts.

Come discover the charms of the imperial European city so beautiful, it’s inspired composers, artists, and royalty (and ...

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,992,538-part monthly series, Wiki Wormhole.

Charles craftily lured Henry VIII into alliances, promising the Tudor monarch support ... boasted a court of equal extravagance. The Holy Roman Empire halted the Ottoman advance into Europe at the ...

The Church honors Jeanne d’Arc as a virgin martyr and national patroness, whose courage, purity and fortitude continue to ...

the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, would carry out the notorious Sack of Rome. At that moment—when he was three and a half years into his pontificate as Pope Clement VII—Giulio was glad of the ...

An appointee of Holy Roman Emperor Otto I, Leo VIII's pontificate occurred after the period known as the saeculum obscurum or the dark century. Leo IX (Pope from 1048-1054) Leo IX crisscrossed ...

The Pope refused to annul the marriage as he was afraid to go against the will of Catherine's nephew Charles V, The Holy Roman Emperor. Although she resisted Henry VIII's advances, by 1533 Anne ...