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Elsewhere in Europe, Charles was being threatened on yet another front by Süleyman I (1494–1566; see entry), sultan of the Ottoman Empire, a vast Muslim kingdom in Asia and parts of North Africa. Süleyman challenged Charles's authority in the area around the Mediterranean Sea as well as the Habsburg possessions in central Europe.
Charles I was born in 1500 to Philip I (known as Philip the Handsome) and Juana of Castile. Their marriage was strategic. Philip’s parents were Mary, Duchess of Burgundy and the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Germany, Maximilian I. Juana was the daughter of King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I of Spain.
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Nov 8, 2021 · The second group of Europeans to arrive in the Spice Islands were the remnants of Ferdinand Magellan 's (c. 1480-1521) crew after he had lost his life in the Philippines. Their coming began a competition between Portugal and Spain for control of the Spice Islands, whose legal ownership was very much up in the air.
This conflict (especially between Francis I and Charles V) would have a dramatic impact on Charles V’s goals as Holy Roman Emperor. His intentions were to unite the many kingdoms under one banner, creating a universal empire that spanned much of Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Oct 19, 2020 · The region of modern-day Brazil was claimed for Portugal in 1500 by the Portuguese aristocrat and mariner Pedro Álvares Cabral (l. c. 1468 - c. 1520) while parts of modern-day Canada were claimed for France after its exploration by the Florentine seaman and explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (l. 1485-1528, who mapped the entire eastern seaboard of North America) in 1524, leading to the ...
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Charles I of Spain. Charles I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empire (Ghent, County of Flanders, February 24, 1500-Cuacos de Yuste, September 21, 1558), called « el César ", he reigned together with his mother, Juana I of Castilla —the latter only nominally and until 1555—, in all the Hispanic kingdoms and territories under the name of ...
The expedition was funded mostly by King Charles I of Spain, with the hope that it would discover a profitable western route to the Moluccas, as the eastern route was controlled by Portugal under the Treaty of Tordesillas. Though the expedition did find a route, it was much longer and more arduous than expected and was therefore not ...
