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Charles V

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Charles V 1500-1558.
Holy Roman emperor (1519-1558) and king of Spain as Charles I (1516-1556). He summoned the Diet of Worms (1521) and the Council of Trent (1545-1563).
Charles V
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1. (Biographies / Charles V (1337-1380) M, French, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) known as Charles the Wise. 1337-80, king of France (1364-80) during the Hundred Years' War
2. (Biographies / Charles V (1500-1558) M, Spanish, POLITICS: hereditary ruler, ) 1500-58, Holy Roman Emperor (1519-56), king of Burgundy and the Netherlands (1506-55), and, as Charles I, king of Spain (1516-56): his reign saw the empire threatened by Francis I of France, the Turks, and the spread of Protestantism; abdicated
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