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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE ASCENDANCY OF SPAIN; HER RELATION TO THE CATHOLIC REACTION I. Reign Of The Emperor Charles V (1519-1556) 42. Charles's Dominions. ? In the year 1500 there was born in the city of Ghent, in the Netherlands, a prince who was destined to play a great part in the history of the sixteenth century. This was Charles, son of Philip the Handsome, Archduke of Austria, and Joanna, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, -? later, to be known to fame as the Emperor Charles V. Charles was the converging point and heir of four great royal lines, which had become united by a series of happy matrimonial alliances.' These were the houses of Austria, Burgundy, Castile, and Aragon. Castile and Aragon were joined by the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile; Austria and Burgundy, by the marriage of Maximilian of Austria to Mary, the daughter and heiress of Charles the Bold, the last Duke of Burgundy;2 then these double lines were brought together by the marriage of Joanna, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, to Philip, son of Maximilian and Mary. Before Charles had completed his nineteenth year there were heaped upon his head, through the removal by death ofThe Balance of Power is disturbed by Spain 61 1 Tin practice of the House of Austria to make conquests through politic marriages is celebrated by Matthias Corvinus (the royal humanist of Hungary, who was the great rival of the Hapsburgs) in the following lines: Bella gerant alii; tu felix Austria nube ! Nam qux Mars aliis dat tibi regna Venus. 2 See The Middle Ages, pars. 346 and 353. his ancestors, the crowns of the four dynasties. In 1506, by the death of his father, Charles fell heir to the Netherlands; the insanity of his mother Joanna, and in 1516 the death of his grandfath...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217234047
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 228
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217234046
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 413 gr


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