Charles V (Habsburg)

Category
People (Government)
Begin
1519
End
1556
Region
Europe
Charles V (Habsburg)
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"Spanish galleons supplied Charles with a windfall 1,200,000 ducats of South American gold for “the holy enterprise of war against the Turk, Luther and other enemies of the faith.” The treasure house of Atahualpa paid for Charles’s crusade. It was the first time that the New World had altered the course of events in the Old." [Empires of the Sea, Kindle Location 1018]
"Charles, who had been Emperor for less than two years, was surrounded by a sea of troubles: he was at odds with the Diet over membership of the Council of Regency; there was a revolt in Castile; he was on the brink of war with Francis I; and William of Croy, the Lord of Chièvres, who had been both his Grand Chamberlain and a virtual father to him since the death of his own father when he was seven, had just died. As if all this was not enough for him to bear upon his twenty-one-year-old shoulders, on 18 April Martin Luther had made his celebrated speech to the Diet, where pandemonium had been let loose as a result." [Suleiman the Magnificent, Kindle Location 1017]

This period is linked to the following movies

Movie title
Genre
Released
Luther
Historical
2003
The Tudors
Miniseries
2007