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Apr 26, 2022 · November 1346, Bonn Predecessor: Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor Successor: Wenceslaus I * Holy Roman Emperor, King of Italy: Reign 6 January/5 April 1355 – 29 November 1378 Coronation 6 January 1355, Milan (Italian royal), 5 April 1355, Rome (imperial) Predecessor: Louis IV Successor: Sigismund I
Charles IV, 1316–78, Holy Roman emperor (1355–78), German king (1347–78), and king of Bohemia (1346–78). The son of John of Luxemburg, Charles was educated at the French court and fought the English at Crécy, where his father's heroic death made him king of Bohemia. Pope Clement VI, to whom he had promised far-reaching concessions ...
Mar 11, 2023 · Charles IV was the eleventh King of Bohemia, King of Germany, King of Italy, and from 1355 Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. His reign was, therefore, unique: he became the personal ruler of all the kingdoms of the Holy Roman Empire. The thorny road to the throne. Charles’s childhood was very complicated. He was born in 1316 in Prague as Václav.
Son of the king of Bohemia and grandson of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles was an erudite and devout prince, educated in Paris and bound by kinship to the courts of Europe ( 69.86 ). After he assumed his father’s throne in 1347, he transformed Prague into a royal capital, with a distinctively Bohemian character ( 2013.272 ).
Catholicism. Signature. Charles V [c] [d] (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555. He was heir to and then head of the rising House of Habsburg.
Charles IV (Czech: Karel IV., German: Karl IV., Latin: Carolus IV; 14 May 1316 – 29 November 1378), born Wenceslaus, was a King of Bohemia and the first King of Bohemia to also become Holy Roman Emperor. He was a member of the House of Luxembourg from his father's side and the House of Premyslid from his mother's side, which he emphasised ...
Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, has been called “one of the most learned and diplomatically skillful sovereigns” of the fourteenth century. Having moved the seat of the Holy Roman Empire to Prague and founding the first university in Central Europe, Charles IV is a towering figure in Czech history and a crucial character ...
