Emperor Charles of Habsburg (1)

(Here young Charles QUINT, 30 Yo). Charles of Habsburg, born February 24, 1500 in Ghent (county of Flanders3) and died September 21, 1558 at the monastery of Yuste (Spain), elected in 1520 emperor under the name of Charles V, commonly in French "Charles QUINT," son of Philippe le Beau and Jeanne la Folle, heir through his father to the possessions of the house of Habsburg (archduchy of Austria, etc.) as well as the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands and Franche-Comté, through his mother of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon (under the name of Charles I) and the Spanish colonial empire, as well as the kingdom of Naples (Charles II), is the most powerful European monarch of the first half of the 16th century .