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CARLOS V
THE BEGINNING OF HIS REIGN
Carlos was born in the Flemish city of Ghent in 1500
He did not speak Spanish
Castilla was experiencing an economic crisis and Carlos used the taxes collected to finance his appointment as Holy Roman Emperor
This provoked the Revolt of the Comuneros in 1520
The king's representatives and the high nobility who supported him defeated the comuneros at the Battle of Villalar (1521)
The bourgeoisie and peasants rose up against the nobility in Valencia and Mallorca
This is known as the Revolt of the Brotherhoods (1519-1523)
The agermanados were groups of humble citizens who had been allowed to arm themselves to defend their coastal cities against pirate attacks
THE WARS OF CARLOS V
Against the Ottoman Empire
In 1529 he attacked Vienna but the city resisted
The Turk Barbarossa controlled the Western Mediterranean from Algiers
Against the German Protestant princes
The Emperor fought the Protestant princes in the Schmalkaldic War (1546-1547) and defeated them in Mülberg
The hostilities resumed in 1552 and Carlos V signed the Peace of Augsburg in 1555
Against France
French king was defeated at the Battle of Pavia (1525)
Carlos I, Juana’s eldest son, inherited a vast patrimony
