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On 11 July 1346, the prince-electors chose him as King of the Romans (rex Romanorum) in opposition to Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor. Charles was crowned on 26 November 1346 in Bonn. After his opponent died, he was re-elected in 1349 and crowned King of the Romans. In 1355, he was crowned King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor.
Charles inherited the Austrian hereditary lands in 1519, as Charles I of Austria, and obtained the election as Holy Roman Emperor against the candidacy of the French king. Since the Imperial election, he was known as Emperor Charles V even outside of Germany.
Charles IV's statue in Karolinum. Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, from the House of Luxembourg was King of Bohemia (1346–1378) and Holy Roman Emperor (1355–1378). A powerful and intellectual ruler, Charles has been remembered for his munificient patronage, especially in the Kingdom of Bohemia which reached the apex of political and cultural power under his reign.
associate king with Louis IV, 1325–1330 Charles IV (Karl IV.) Luxembourg: 11 July 1346 5 April 1355 29 November 1378 Grandson of Henry VII; rival king to Louis IV, 1346–1347; also King of Bohemia, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor: Günther von Schwarzburg (Günther von Schwarzburg) Schwarzburg: 30 January 1349 — 24 May 1349 Rival king ...
Charles, Duke of Vendôme (1489–1537), also known as Charles IV de Bourbon; Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558), King of Naples as Charles IV; Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (1604–1675) Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1685–1740), Duke of Brabant and King of Sicily as Charles IV; Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (1751–1819), styled ...
The Golden Bull of 1356 (Czech: Zlatá bula, German: Goldene Bulle, German pronunciation: [ˈɡɔldənə ˈbʊlə] ⓘ, Latin: Bulla Aurea, Italian: Bolla d'oro) was a decree issued by the Imperial Diet at Nuremberg and Metz (Diet of Metz, 1356/57) headed by the Emperor Charles IV which fixed, for a period of more than four hundred years, important aspects of the constitutional structure of ...
Wenceslaus took some part in government during his father's lifetime, [2] and on Charles' death in 1378, he inherited the Crown of Bohemia and as king assumed the government of the Holy Roman Empire. In the cathedral of Monza there is preserved a series of reliefs depicting the coronations of the kings of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy ...
Habsburg, Luxembourg and Wittelsbach territories in the Holy Roman Empire, 1273-1378. After one hundred years, the Luxembourg scion Charles IV was the first legitimate Holy Roman Emperor: while his precursor, the Wittelsbach ruler Louis the Bavarian had been crowned without the approval of the Pope, the reign of Charles IV was legitimated through his coronation by Pope Innocent VI in 1355. [1]