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Imperial Spain in the 16th centuryCharles I

Unit 1: Imperial Spain (pages 18-21)

✤ Royal families (dynastic/inherit).

✤ Charles I (Holy Roman Emperor).

✤ Reformation.

✤ Martin Luther.

✤ Ottoman Turks.

✤ Philip II.

✤ Lepanto.

✤ Invincible Armada.

Charles I

✤ 1500 (Ghent, Flanders, Belgium).

✤ 1558 (Yuste, Spain).

✤ House of Habsburg.

✤ Parents: Joanna of Castile and Philip (“the Handsome”) I of Castile.

Charles I’s coat of arms

✤ The Netherlands; Artois; Luxembourg; France-Comte (father).

✤ Aragon (Naples, Sicily, Sardinia) (grandfather).

✤ Castile (Navarre, Granada, Canary Islands; “Indies”) (mother).

Isabela & FerdinandCharles’ grandparents

The Holy Roman Emperor

✤ 1516-1556 = King of Spain (Charles I of Spain).

✤ Union of the crowns of Castile & Aragon under one head.

✤ 1519-1558 = Holy Emperor (Charles V of Germany).

Charles’ main preocupation

✤ The Ottoman Turks (Muslims).

✤ After the Fall of Constantinople.

✤ Moving to the Mediterranean.

✤ Arriving in Austria.

Charles’ main preocupation

✤ Martin Luther’s Reformation.

✤ Defense of Catholicism (versus Protestantism).

✤ Counter-Reformation attempt (The Council of Trent, 1545).

End of Charles’ Empire

✤ 1556: abdication.

✤ Philip II (son) = his personal empire.

✤ Ferdinand I (brother) = the Holy Empire.