Clement’s friend and benefactor, the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, later had to continue ... and maintain order in Europe. Pope St. Pius V convened and concluded the Council of Trent ...

The Pope refused to annul the marriage as he was afraid to go against the will of Catherine's nephew Charles V, The Holy Roman Emperor. Although she resisted Henry VIII's advances, by 1533 Anne ...

Charles in chargeA bronze likeness of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, created in 1555. Under Charles V (who was also Charles I of Spain), Pizarro began to forge an empire for Spain in the Americas.

Matilda of Canossa, the Margravine of Tuscany who militarily and materially made possible Pope Gregory VII’s famous Investiture Controversy slap-down of the future Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV ...

As we file, Jannik Sinner, the leading Italian tennis player and world No. 1, is playing point for point against the Spanish ...

Appointed by Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, he died of malaria soon after taking office ... He had close ties with key religious figures like Saint Philip Neri. Benedict V held office for 33 days in ...

Speaking in the first person, “Queen Europe” pleas for unity and directly addresses Charles V, Holy Roman emperor and king of Spain, and his brother, Ferdinand I of Austria (in whose court ...

The man was Emperor Charles V. Now aged 55 ... Francis with the even more erratic Henry. Another foe was the Ottoman Empire, whose sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, boasted a court of equal ...

The sack by mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor devastated Rome physically, spiritually, and culturally. It wasn’t just the destruction of a city, but a symbolic implosion of ...

Otto I the Holy Roman Emperor pushed for Leo VIII to be pope after ... again once John suddenly died the next month, but Benedict V was elected instead, according to Britannica.