Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1500-1558)
Tiziano - Charles V after the Battle of Muhlberg, 1548.

His vision of Europe
(Italian only)
inspired by his great Piedmontese statesman Mercurino Arborio da Gattinara, who was certainly among the
brightest minds of his time, supporter and protagonist of a model of modern history and western civilization,
whose unified design seems to anticipate Europe of the Second Millennium.
"Al rey Nuestro Señor"
Ya se acerca señor, o es ya llegada
La edad gloriosa, en que promete el cielo
Una grey, y un pastor solo en el suelo,
Por suerte a vuestros tiempos reservada:
Ya tan alto principio en tal jornada
Os muestra el fin de vuestro santo zelo,
Y anuncia al mundo para más consuelo
Un monarca, un Imperio, y una Espada.
Hernando de Acuña (1547)
The full Charles' V titulature
went as follows:
Charles, by the grace of God,
Holy Roman Emperor, forever August, King of Germany, King of Italy, King of all Spains, of Castile,
Aragon, León,
Navarra, Grenada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Sevilla, Cordova, Murcia, Jaén, Algarves,
Algeciras, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, King of Two
Sicilies, of Sardinia, Corsica, King of Jerusalem, King of the Western and Eastern Indies, Lord of the
Islands and Main Ocean Sea, Archduke of Austria,
Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Lorraine, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Limburg, Luxembourg, Gelderland, Neopatria,
Württemberg, Landgrave of Alsace, Prince
of Swabia, Asturia and Catalonia, Count of Flanders, Habsburg, Tyrol, Gorizia, Barcelona, Artois, Burgundy
Palatine, Hainaut, Holland, Seeland, Ferrette,
Kyburg, Namur, Roussillon, Cerdagne, Zutphen, Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire, Burgau, Oristano and
Gociano, Lord of Frisia, the Wendish March,
Pordenone, Biscay, Molin, Salins, Tripoli and Mechelen.
Titles
                    
Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Limburg, Lothier,
Luxemburg, Margrave of Namur, Count Palatine of Burgundy, Count of Artois, Charolais, Flanders, Hainault,
Holland, Zeeland, Duke of Guelders, Count of Zutphen, King of Castile and Leon, King of Aragon and Sicily,
King of Naples, King of the Romans, Holy
Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria
ancora oggi è qui il cuore d'Europa - here is still the heart of Europe
A map of the dominion of the Habsburgs following the Battle of Mühlberg (1547) as
depicted in The Cambridge
Modern History Atlas (1912); Habsburg lands are shaded green, but do not include the lands of the Holy
Roman
Empire over which they presided, nor the vast Castilian holdings outside of Europe, and particularly
in the New
World.
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