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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
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I want to be trusted, and will not bargain with my subjects.
— (Charles to the ministers of Holland, 1531), Ch. 8. Champion of the Western World, 1528-31
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556 (1500–1558)
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Lived 1500–1558, aged 58
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He inherited half of Europe before he was twenty and spent forty years trying to hold it together. Charles V ruled an empire so vast the sun never set on it — and discovered that no amount of gold from the Americas could pay for the wars that tore it apart.
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Born in Flanders in 1500, Charles was heir to four grandparents who had assembled kingdoms like puzzle pieces: the Habsburgs gave him Austria and the Netherlands, the Catholic Monarchs gave him Spain and its new American colonies. His father died when he was six; by nineteen he was Holy Roman Emperor, adopting the name Charles V and styling himself a new Charlemagne. He had no capital, made forty journeys across his domains, and spent a quarter of his reign on the road. What came to him peacefully he defended violently: he declared Martin Luther an outlaw at the Diet of Worms in 1521, captured…
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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
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Since our Lord, who gave Fernando to us, wished to have him back, we must bend to His will and thank Him and beg Him to protect what is left.
— (1530, Charles to his wife), Portrait of the Emperor as a Renaissance Prince
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
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Emperor Charles: “[Our policy] has always been to deal first with matters which are easiest to resolve and leave the most difficult ones until last.
— (1526), Portrait of the Emperor as a Renaissance Prince
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
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We are more inclined to marry [your] sister the infanta, Isabella, than anyone else because there is no daughter of a king as ready as her.
— (January 1522 to King John of Portugal), Portrait of the Emperor as a Renaissance Prince
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
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My life has been one long journey.
— As quoted at his last public speech, in reference to the peripatetic nature of his reign.
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