Charles V Becomes Holy Roman Emperor

On 26 October 1520 the eldest son of Philip the Handsome and Joanna of Castile was crowned as Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

Charles was born 24 February 1500, and by the time he became the emperor he had already been King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, and Lord of the Netherlands since he was a kid. He had basically be born to inherit a big chunk of the planet, and this one chin man “brought together under his rule extensive territories in western, central, and southern Eur...