Karl V., deutscher Kaiser

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Basic data

  1. Karl I., König von Spanien Alternative Names
  2. February 24, 1500 in Gent
  3. September 21, 1558 in San Jerónimo de Yuste
  4. König, Kaiser
  5. Spanien, Deutschland, Österreich

Iconography

(Source: Wikimedia)
The entrance gate to the Prinsenhof, Dutch for "Princes' Court", in Ghent, where Charles V was born (Source: Wikimedia)
A painting by Bernhard Strigel representing the extended Habsburg family with a young Charles in the middle (Source: Wikimedia)
A 1519 portrait of Charles V by Bernard van Orley with the insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece prominently displayed (Source: Wikimedia)
Portrait of Charles V with a Dog, a 1532 portrait by Jakob Seisenegger (Source: Wikimedia)
The Dominions of the Habsburgs at the time of the abdication of Charles V in 1556 (Source: Wikimedia)
The Palace of Coudenberg in Brussels from a 17th-century portrait before it burnt down in 1731. Brussels served as the main seat of the imperial court of Charles V in the Low Countries.[54][55] (Source: Wikimedia)
Toledo served as the main seat of the Imperial court of Charles V in Castile. [59][60] (Source: Wikimedia)
The exterior of the Palace of Charles V in Granada was built upon his wedding to Isabella of Portugal in 1526. (Source: Wikimedia)
Pope Clement VII and Emperor Charles V on horseback under a canopy, a 1580 portrait by Jacopo Ligozzi. It depicts the entry of the Pope and the Emperor into Bologna in 1530 when Charles was crowned as Holy Roman Emperor by Clement VII. (Source: Wikimedia)
A panorama of Augsburg, the main German seat of the Imperial court and the location of many of the Imperial Diets presided over by Charles V depicted in a hand-coloured woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (Source: Wikimedia)
Francis I and Charles V made peace at the Truce of Nice in 1538. Francis refused to meet Charles in person, and the treaty was signed in separate rooms. (Source: Wikimedia)
Charles V in the 1550s after Titian (Source: Wikimedia)
Detail of a tapestry depicting the conquest of Tunis in the Tapestry Room of the Alcázar Palace in Seville (Source: Wikimedia)
Summons for Martin Luther to appear at the Diet of Worms signed by Charles V; the text on the left was on the reverse side. (Source: Wikimedia)
16th-century perception of German soldiers during Charles's reign (1525) portrayed in the manuscript "Théâtre de tous les peuples et nations de la terre avec leurs habits et ornemens divers, tant anciens que modernes, diligemment depeints au naturel". Painted by Lucas de Heere in the second half of the 16th century. Preserved in the Ghent University Library.[98] (Source: Wikimedia)
In Allegory on the abdication of Emperor Charles V in Brussels, Frans Francken the Younger's depiction of Charles V in the allegorical act of dividing the entire world between Philip II of Spain and Emperor Ferdinand I (Source: Wikimedia)
Habsburg dominions in the centuries following their partition by Charles V (Source: Wikimedia)
Deathbed of the Emperor at the Monastery of Yuste, Cáceres (Source: Wikimedia)
Empire of Charles V at its peak with The Americas an ocean away from his European realms (Source: Wikimedia)
The second tapestry in the series Battle of Pavia by Bernard van Orley: The Marquis of Pescara leading an Imperial attack on the French cavalry and Georg von Frundsberg leading the Landsknechte against the French artillery[122] (Source: Wikimedia)
Heavy cavalry at the Battle of Pavia (Source: Wikimedia)
Anton Fugger burning the debenture bonds of Charles V in 1535, a portrait by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker (Source: Wikimedia)
Allegory of the reign of Charles V, a 16th-century painting by anonymous French painter. Charles V and his enemies (from left to right): Suleiman I, Pope Clement VII, Francis I, the Duke of Cleves, the Duke of Saxony, and Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (Source: Wikimedia)
Frontispiece of the 1542 New Laws issued by Charles V, Emperor and King of Spain (Source: Wikimedia)
The children of Philip and Joanna (Source: Wikimedia)
Isabella of Portugal depicting Charles' wife, a 1548 portrait by Titian (Source: Wikimedia)
The bronze effigies of Charles and Isabella at the Basilica in El Escorial (Source: Wikimedia)
Don John of Austria, the natural son of Charles during his widowhood (Source: Wikimedia)
Equestrian armour of Emperor Charles V. Piece drawn from the collection of the Royal Armoury of Madrid (Source: Wikimedia)

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