How did charles v die

He was heir to and then head of the rising House of Habsburg. His dominions in Europe included the Holy Roman Empire , extending from Germany to northern Italy with rule over the Austrian hereditary lands and Burgundian Low Countries , and Spain with its possessions of the southern Italian kingdoms of Naples , Sicily and Sardinia. In the Americas, he oversaw the continuation of Spanish colonization and a short-lived German colonization.

The personal union of the European and American territories he ruled was the first collection of realms labelled " the empire on which the sun never sets ". Heir of his grandparents, Charles inherited his family dominions at a young age. After his father's death in , he inherited the Low Countries. At the death of his grandfather Maximilian in , he inherited the Austrian hereditary lands and was elected as Holy Roman Emperor.

He adopted the Imperial name of Charles V as his main title, and styled himself as a new Charlemagne.

Charles v accomplishments

Charles revitalized the medieval concept of universal monarchy. With no fixed capital, he made 40 journeys through the different entities he ruled and spent a quarter of his reign travelling within his realms. In , Rome was sacked by an army of Charles's mutinous soldiers. In , he took possession of Milan and captured Tunis. However, the loss of Buda during the struggle for Hungary and the Algiers expedition in the early s frustrated his anti-Ottoman policies.

The refusal of the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League to recognize the council's validity led to a war , won by Charles. Ultimately, Charles conceded the Peace of Augsburg and abandoned his multi-national project with abdications in that divided his hereditary and imperial domains between the Spanish Habsburgs, headed by his son Philip II of Spain , and Austrian Habsburgs, headed by his brother Ferdinand.