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Charles V was the Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, and was crowned by the Pope in Bologna in February 1530.
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He was the ultimate heir of his four grandparents and inherited all his family dominions at a young age.
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He was known for his ruthless economics and reliance on the proto-capitalist economy of the Low Countries
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, and his reliance on the flow of precious metal from Mexico and Peru to Spain, which caused widespread inflation.
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He was the most powerful monarch of his day, ruling over an empire that included what is now Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, parts of Italy and central Europe, and large areas in the Americas.
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Charles V was the Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain (Castel and Aragon) from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555. He was the ultimate heir of his four grandparents and inherited all his family dominions at a young age, and he spent most of his life waging war in his attempt to defend the integrity of the Holy Roman Empire from the Protestant Reformation, the expansion of the Muslim realms of the Ottoman Empire, and in a series of wars with France. He was known for his ruthless economics, a reliance on the proto-capitalist economy of the Low Countries, and his reliance on the flow of precious metal from Mexico and Peru to Spain, which caused widespread inflation.
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The status quo was preserved: Charles renounced his claim to Burgundy; Francis, his claims to Milan and Naples. The pope, having made peace with Charles, met him in Bologna ; there he crowned him emperor in February 1530. It was to be the last time that a Holy Roman emperor was crowned by a pope.
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C harles V became the most powerful monarch of his day, ruling over an empire that included what is now Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, parts of Italy and central Europe, and large areas in the Americas.
Charles V 1500–1558 King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor
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Charles V was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement VII in the San Petronio Basilica in Bologna on 24 February 1530 . He was the last Holy Roman Emperor to…
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