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  1. Apr 1, 2024 · April 18, 1690, Wels (aged 47) Role In: Siege of Vienna. Charles IV (or V) Leopold (born April 5, 1643, Vienna, Austria—died April 18, 1690, Wels) was the duke of Lorraine and Bar, Austrian field marshal who commanded the forces defeating the Turks before the gates of Vienna in 1683 and subsequently expelled them from most of Hungary. Charles ...

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  2. 4 days ago · 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.

  3. 3 days ago · Before his accession as emperor, he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the House of Habsburg in the name of his elder brother, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Also, he often served as Charles' representative in the Holy Roman Empire and developed encouraging relationships with German princes.

  4. Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany and Bohemia, was one of the most influential German rulers. He was a patron of the culture and the arts, issued the Golden Bull of 1356, and presided over the golden age of Bohemia.

  5. Apr 8, 2024 · Through the mediation of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, Urban lifted his excommunication against Bernabò and Bologna was returned to the papacy in 1363 through a lengthy negotiation by cardinal Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz.

    • 1291–1399
    • Rise of the Ottomans, decline of Mamluks, Mongols
    • Levant, Baltic, Iberia, Italy, Northern Africa
    • Hospitallers, Teutonic Knights successful, Templars destroyed
  6. Apr 8, 2024 · Sigismund, a younger son of the Holy Roman emperor Charles IV, received from his father the margravate of Brandenburg. Engaged to Maria, daughter of King Louis I of Hungary and Poland, he was sent on his father’s death (1378) to the Hungarian court, where he married Maria.

  7. Apr 7, 2024 · Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, running a territory that sprawled across the continent and beyond, to the New World. But the man born in Ghent in 1500 and raised in Mechelen would abdicate in Brussels at the age of 55.

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